Lucy Brazier OBE is one of the world’s leading authorities on the administrative profession. As CEO of Marcham Publishing, specialist publishers of Executive Support Magazine – a global training magazine dedicated to the professional development needs of senior and aspiring administrative professionals – Lucy works with the best trainers of Executive Assistants from around the world to deliver the most up-to-date and current training in the market. Her passion is for the Assistant role to be truly recognised as a career and not just a job. Her formidable training expertise and speaking style have given her opportunities to train, present, and emcee events in over 50 countries at over 450 events.

With access to the most forward-thinking, passionate and knowledgeable trainers and administrative business leaders in the world, as well as personally meeting and speaking to literally thousands of Assistants over the last 10 years, Lucy’s knowledge of the market and what Assistants all over the world are facing on a day-to-day basis are second to none. In 2021 Lucy was awarded an OBE in recognition for her services to office professionals.

Skevi Constantinou is an international speaker and trainer known globally for her dedication for the assistant and administrative support profession. A highly experienced former C Suite Executive Assistant, Skevi trains assistants and business support professionals across the world and evokes change by encouraging colleagues to be heard as one voice.

Having created and launched the multi-award winning and global professional learning and lifestyle platform, The PA Way, Skevi’s mission is to ensure that Assistants and Business Support professionals are valued, nurtured and listened to.

The PA Way delivers its learning curriculum and events through its signature and multi- award winning ‘Loyal Royal’ membership, which connects colleagues across a global community known as the 'AssistantHood' and also launched the first bespoke membership App for the profession which has had roaring success.

Skevi has spoken and delivered training globally as she continues to encourage the profession to 'level up' by owning their own light and being the best versions of themselves.

The extension to The PA Way is The CEO to your Glow Academy which focuses on taking control of your life and owning your power. Skevi truly understands that it's time to shine the limelight on the profession and to ensure that those within it are fully recognised, rewarded and celebrated.

Samina Azam is a multi-passionate creative, skilled in social navigation, networking, public speaking, and coaching. She is continuously seeking new ways of shaping and crafting bespoke learning experiences for her audience. Through this passion, she founded her own company, Oculus Creative Learning, the foundation of which encompasses Emotional Intelligence.

With over 20 years of corporate experience, she has worked at GlaxoSmithKline, BP Chemicals, Coca-Cola European Partners, Microsoft, and is currently on contract at Google. During her time at GlaxoSmithKline and Coca-Cola European Partners, she created and delivered an award-winning EA Conference and had words such as ‘my rock’ and ‘guardian angel’ attributed to her.

Rob Thompson is a TEDx speaker, trainer, and coach. He has developed an innovative way to view human interactions. He challenges accepted wisdom and helps people more fully understand their team and interpersonal interactions, how group momentum and self-confidence are generated, and how to deal effectively with high value but ‘high maintenance’ team members and bosses.

Rob’s new model of interactions shows people how to change their self-confidence and how to change the dynamic between themselves and those difficult people they encounter in their day-to-day lives.

Rob works with both industry and Europe’s top scientific research institutes, teaching the next generation of leaders how to improve their self-confidence and the dynamics in their teams in order to be more successful.

Jiri Vizdal is a seasoned and trustworthy leader with 18-plus years’ experience in the areas of digital and agile transformations, value delivery, and future-proof solutions, where competitiveness and the people development matter above all.

His core knowledge and experience cover vision and strategy definition, full portfolio and project and programme end-to-end delivery, product management, team leadership and management, organisation development and strategic sourcing, vendor management costs optimisation, business partnership, service, and operations partnership.

Top quality and excellence to make dreams come true is his true passion, while delivering more than 180 projects and programmes worth EUR 30-plus million till now.

Lisette Sutherland is a remote-working, German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it’s possible to work from anywhere. In fact, it’s not just possible; it’s completely, productively workable – if you do it right. Her company, Collaboration Superpowers, shares just how to do it right in a variety of formats:

• Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely —Successfully — for Individuals, Teams, and Managers
• Speaking engagements and webinars
• Remote working workshops
• Podcast featuring interviews with remote-working experts
• Bi-monthly newsletter

Lisette has given presentations at a wide range of events, from conferences and meetups all over the world to a TEDx talk on the theme Unbox the Future in Kaunas, Lithuania. Her workshop clients include Air France, ING, CrossKnowledge (Wiley), Rabobank, and Saint-Gobain.

In 2018, both the Collaboration Superpowers podcast and the 21st-Century Work Life podcast series were deemed among the Best Remote Work Podcasts by Workplaceless.

For seven years (2013-2020), Lisette was also the remote office manager for the 100-percent remote company, Management 3.0, a global company focused on helping organisations create better leadership with fewer managers.

Steve Dawson is the owner of Coach – Steve Dawson, a group of companies registered in Singapore and Hong Kong. He coaches corporate people to present their knowledge, data, and innovations in boardrooms, ballrooms, on social media platforms, online, and on TV. He has been the face of football, mixed martial arts, and general sports news throughout Asia, anchoring the premium content at ESPN, Star Sports and Fox Sports since 2004. Steve Dawson is a British citizen, resident in Singapore since 1994, is a chartered tax accountant and has a BA Hons., in economics and public administration from the University of London. Steve is also the author of three books including most recently Locker Room Talk – A Guide to Political Correctness in the Public Domain.

Fadila is a location-independent business strategist, remote work advisor, and entrepreneur.

She runs a hybrid trade payment and facilitation agency in Ghana working with merchants and traders across nine countries, providing them with trade advisory and brokerage, trade payment and pricing advisory, as well as international business setup and compliance services. She is also the founder of Africans Living Fully, a media and community platform that empowers young Africans to be limitless in their pursuit of a fulfilling career and life. ALF creates digital content and curated live and digital events centred around the future of work, remote careers, culture, and lifestyle design.

Fadila has eight years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience. She founded her current company Fainajs Express Ltd in 2017 and has run it completely remotely with a team of six until 2020, when the firm transitioned into a hybrid system of work with over 15 employees. Fadila is a global citizen who has travelled to over 35 countries and lived in five across the globe. She is a strong advocate of equal opportunities for all, remote work, financial and economic empowerment, and is obsessed with sustainable business design and cross-border trade, thus her commitment to expanding access to resources, opportunities, and training to individuals and organisations.