Lucy Brazier is CEO of Marcham Publishing, specialist publishers of Executive Support – a global training magazine dedicated to the professional development needs of senior and aspiring administrative professionals.

Lucy is one of the world’s leading authorities on the administrative profession.

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 chair in over 45 countries at over 400 events, including chairing the 2015 World Administrator Summit in Papua New Guinea. This has created much needed discussions from encouraging executive assistants in Blue Chip companies to work towards becoming centres of excellence within their companies to explaining why college students should see the assistant role as proper profession with a career path.

Lucy has a unique overview of the role and where it is heading. With access to the most forward thinking, passionate and knowledgeable authorities on the role in the world as well as personally meeting and speaking to literally thousands of assistants over the last seven 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.

Lucy’s  unique  insight  into  the  world  of  the  executive  assistants  brings  a  distinct  qual-ity  and  depth  to  her  specialist  development  programmes.  She  continuously  researches,  develops and delivers to bring the most current, innovative and challenging development programmes to support assistants in rapidly changing business environments to meet the increasing skill sets required of senior assistants.

Lucy has been a publisher and events organiser for over 29 years. Lucy previously worked as a publishing director for Wilmington PLC, and has managed a team based in Singapore, New  York,  Germany  and  London  responsible  for  13  magazines,  12  international  confer-ences, awards, trade show attendance and marketing for EMAP. Other companies worked for include: The Times, The Independent, Centaur Communications and Glass’s Guide.

His surname is Baha and everyone calls him Baha. From Amsterdam to Singapore, Washington DC to Dubai, Baha delivers inspiring keynote talks. He has given talks at the world's leading business summits where TED speakers and New York Times bestselling authors were also speakers. After obtaining a scholarship from Fulbright, he finished his master’s in the USA on the topic of conflict resolution. He has lived and worked in Germany, Turkey, Ireland, Guatemala, and the USA, with more than 18 years of total work experience. Baha was one of the first employees of Facebook in Europe.

So far, he has delivered training and given talks in more than 28 countries across five continents. Recently, he completed MIT Sloan’s Executive Education Programme, “Leading Organisations and Change”. He is fluent in English, Spanish, Turkish, and German. In his free time, he loves to play percussion, travel with his family, and do puzzles with his 4-year-old daughter. His new book, “Playbook for Engaged Employees“, was published in April 2021 and already purchased in Canada, Switzerland, Australia, the UK, and Germany.

John Tomlinson is the Head of Learning and Development (Europe and Central Asia) for the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and the Head of Reporting and Evaluation. He is part of the International Academy, the L&D function supporting the UK government in embassies, consulates, and high commissions across the globe. He regularly delivers learning programmes on leadership and management and other topics, looking for any excuse to get away from his desk and into a training room!

John is a regular speaker at events, and as a keen writer and blogger (see johnrtomlinson.com) he works as an adviser and occasional guest lecturer for Kingston University in their creative and professional writing programme. He is also a qualified coach and podcaster, including running the popular L&D podcast Trainer Tools.

Valentina Kordi is a mindset and high-performance coach, an international speaker and the author of the book “Success is a mind game: How to achieve your business and profes­sional goals by changing not only your own mindset and behavior but also your team’s”. She studied business administration at Newport University of California, USA. She holds a master’s degree in human resource management and she did extensive, certified studies in mindset coaching. She worked for 15 years as a business administration executive in multinational companies.

The last nine years she has helped worldwide entrepreneurs, executives and work teams reach their professional and corporate goals, by changing their own mindset and behaviour in the workplace. Applying her unique method, Self-Leadership Mindset for Motivation©, which is based on finding the real, basic and personal human motives that drive each one of those whom she coaches, she makes success inevitable for them.

Lisa-Katherina Schutter is looking back on 15 successful years as a first-class Personal/Executive Assistance to international top executives on C-Suite and EVP level. Lisa holds a degree in international office management and is a university-certified Systemic Business Coach, running her own coaching office in Frankfurt, Germany, LK Lean Digital Office Consulting & Coaching.

After her career at global player Continental for nearly nine years, she accepted an offer as EA to the CFO at Schenck, a division of the Dürr Group. In this role, Lisa is managing her CFO’s office and is supporting the global organisation as Digital Transformation Coach to strive for business, processes, and collaboration towards Office 4.0. In addition, Lisa is member of the corporate modern workplace team at Dürr.

As a Microsoft-certified service adoption specialist for M365 and trainer for lean administration and Office Kaizen, Lisa manages to combine both – mindset and apps. Initiating three working out loud circles in recent years and attending the Master Class in 2020 helped Lisa become an official WOL Mentor by John Stepper. With this accomplishment, Lisa has been a requested trainer, coach and speaker on the market, in 2020 speaking for Vonlanthen in Dubai.

“Understanding the importance of lean administration, lean thinking and lean collaboration becomes crucial in a VUCA world. The role of assistants is changing tremendously. We more and more become Change Agents and Digital Guides always considering Mindset – Toolset – Skillset, whereas Mindset is key” Lisa emphasizes in many interviews.

“Digitalization affects us assistants in particular! Everyone expects us to work agile, influence the organization in a positive way and structure the processes for smooth collaboration in the background. I will show you how you can combine the lean philosophy and Kaizen methods with community learning and the networking approach of working out loud and how you can face change at its best in a new work environment.”

Mariada de lulio is an Italian Senior Executive Assistant in Business Admin with strong experience gained within various international multicultural contexts supporting politicians, VIPs, archistars and executives. For several years she’s helped overcome complex, difficult challenges with the aim to improve the professional life of the executives and contribute to achieve successful results. She’s had the chance to interact with different people from all over the world, which has given her the opportunity to open her mind, familiarize herself with different cultures, and to improve herself as a human being and as a professional. Mariada has a can-do attitude and positive, mindful approach. A believer in continuous learning, she recently attended a digital and growth marketing master and will attend another one in Oct. 2021. She fully loves her job and does it with passion, with a belief in the strategic thinking and in the evolution of this role.

Olena Sadoma is an energy coach who has traveled to 75 countries, including an overlanding 7.5-month trip around Africa, where she launched her first online course on energy management. Her energy diary has been used by more than 1.3K people to find out how they gain and lose energy. More than 200 of her clients learned to be resourceful and started living their dream life, finding out their passion and life vision.

Silvia Salomon has over 20 years of experience as a C-Level Executive Assistant in different companies, from family-owned businesses to multinationals.

A professional trainer from 2011-16, her focus is on topics like corporate communications, employee relations, and teambuilding. Along her career as an EA, she has developed specific training projects dedicated to the role of management support professionals, including the assistants training path (ATP), an innovative format of role-based, in-house training for company teams of assistants.

Today, she manages both activities, primarily in the field as PA to the CEO at Univet s.r.l., a small multinational, Italian-based yet globally-extended company, and secondly as a trainer and mentor for young EAs. Since 2008, she has been a member of International Management Assistants, she’s a past member of Full Council and was National Chairman of IMA Italy from 2016-21.

Since 2018, she has been attending the World Administrators Summit, leading the Italian delegation twice.  She represents IMA Italy in the World Administrators Alliance. A linguistics and semiotics specialist, she holds a degree in foreign languages and literatures, and a master’s degree in communications management from Università Cattolica in Milan, Italy.

Marie started her career in account management and client services for a field marketing agency. She then worked as an operations manager for a small events company producing conferences for NHS and health care professionals before joining Sagittarius in 2017. In 2021, Marie’s role moved to Remarkable Group, an international powerhouse of integrated digital specialist consultancies that offer our clients true partnership and integration at a global scale.

Marie has worked with the co-founders of Sagittarius, and now Remarkable Group, since 2017, supporting calendar, travel management, and more through company project management and roll out. Marie leads the agency services for the group, managing the buildings and tech resources. She also runs internal events. Marie is passionate about reducing friction for the team and enabling them to do the things they love.

Marie was the project lead for Sagittarius’ information security management system implementation, which culminated in being awarded ISO 27001 (Information Security) in January 2021.

Anahita Moghaddam is the founder of Neural Beings, as well as a coach, organizational trainer, and international speaker. Her rigorous and experiential methodology is rooted in the Eastern contemplative traditions, and continuously refined under the mentorship of leading scientists and academics in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and the Eastern philosophical systems.

Anahita is committed to serving organizations and individuals who aspire to have a substantial positive impact in the world. She is a coach to executives, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders, she facilitates workshops and organizational trainings, and speaks at events around the world.

She has been a student of the Eastern contemplative traditions for over a decade, primarily attending teachings with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and has been trained in contemplative neuroscience and psychology at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in New York.

As a former executive assistant within corporate organisations, Sabina has over a decade of experience working with organisations to integrate mindfulness practices to overcome feelings of stress or being overwhelmed as well as a lack of focus and engagement in the workplace. Sabina’s professional experience in the mental health field informs both her understanding and teaching of mindfulness. She is a proud member of the national peak body Meditation Association of Australia.

Sabina is passionate about supporting busy professionals in learning how to utilise mindfulness in their day-to-day life, and today would like to share some practical strategies and equip your mindfulness toolbelt. With a belief that mindfulness is not something that is practiced occasionally but rather becomes a way of life to positively shape your thoughts, actions, and behaviours, Sabina will share how to incorporate mindfulness to manage stress, increase productivity, and increase your focus in this workshop.

With a conscious focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of being an EA, Sabina has been called effervescent, open hearted, honest, and a powerhouse of knowledge. Expect to be captivated, taken under Sabina’s wing, and enabled through the power of mindfulness.