Welcome to the EA Mentor! I’m so glad you’re here.

Site purpose

My goal for the EA Mentor is distill and share what I’ve learned in my career with new Executive Assistants (EAs). The pace of business today is fast and EAs need to stay one step ahead of their team and peers.

Embrace change

I’m always surprised when an EA says they can’t be bothered to learn new apps, learn the advanced features of Office products, or try out new AI apps, like ChatGPT. What you don’t know can hurt you.

Let me repeat that: what you don’t know CAN hurt you.

With the layoffs during Covid and more recently in the tech sector, it is more important than ever to step up your EA game. Pre-Covid, most layoffs were among new hires, first in, first out. The tech sector layoffs of the past few weeks showed tenure no longer matters. Workforce reduction was a math problem for the company to solve.

I encourage you to remain curious and embrace the new. School is never out if you want to weather the storms of this career.

EA focused

I put a lot of thought into the focus of this site: all EAs, new EAs, all office professionals. After researching office professional sites, I realized there is plenty of good content for general office professionals and advanced EA training, but there is not much for brand-new EAs. The goal of this site is to fill that gap.