SPEAKERS

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Dimitra Zographos Senior Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President and Director of Business Lines and Major Projects URS Corporation	Dr Suzy Green Co-Founder Positive Psychology Institute	Glenyce Johnson Managing Director Peregrine and Gecko’s Adventures (speaking in Brisbane and Melbourne)	Narrelle Matthey-Aickin C – Level/ Senior EA
Patrizia Iacono EA to the Chief Information Officer The Westpac Group	Kathy Cunningham Director empire PR & Events	John Karagounis Managing Director and CEO The CEO Circle and The EA Circle	Craig Farrell Chief HR Officer Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) (speaking in Canberra only)
Peter Blasina The Gadget Guy	Mary Morris Director MTK Konsulting	Philip Clark Senior Facilitator Inqurio and Former ABC Radio Broadcaster and TV Host

about the forum

The Executive Assistant / Personal Assistant Forum is back by popular demand after a series of successful events in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney in November 2011. After motivating and inspiring hundreds of EAs and PAs across Australia, we're bringing this exciting event to your capital city!

This valuable networking forum has already proven to be popular for focusing on the unique challenges you face in your EA/PA role. We've designed an agenda to provide you with real tools and strategies for professional development in an interactive, fun and engaging learning environment.

You'll hear from senior EAs, business mentors and CEO-level speakers who will share their experiences and offer invaluable advice from first-hand experience. In short, this informative event will provide you with fantastic tips to MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER and HELP YOU WORK FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENTLY.

Here's just some of the feedback from attendees at our November event and what you can expect to gain by attending:

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PLUS YOUR CHOICE OF 2 FULL DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS:

We've designed an agenda where you can choose to attend the one day conference, one day workshop or both depending on your schedule and learning requirements. This time you can choose one of the two workshop options below.

Workshop A: Creating, Managing and Delivering Successful Events', facilitated by Kathy Cunningham, Director, empire Public Relations and Events

After a sold-out event in Melbourne in November 2011, we're bringing Kathy back to run the full-day workshop 'Creating, Managing and Delivering Successful Events'. The post conference workshop is your perfect chance to gain in-depth, practical advice on creating stand-out events in just one day so you can get the outcomes you want for your next event.

Kathy's vast experience in event management and excellent facilitation skills received fantastic reviews in November 2011. Here's just some of the feedback:

"Kathy was excellent – very engaging, informative and helpful."

"Kathy was a wealth of knowledge in the events area."

"Excellent workshop. It was great to hear different ideas and opinions."

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Workshop B: Developing emotional intelligence for improved performance at work, facilitated by Mary Morris, Director, MTK Konsulting

With past delegates and EAs/PAs across Australia telling us emotional intelligence is a key skill they want to develop to progress further in their career and personal life, we’ve decided to run an additional full-day workshop focused on this topic to cater for popular requests. Attend this workshop if you want to be more productive at work and develop skills to have effective conversations in your workplace.

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KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

	Build business networks – Meet and build connections with like-minded EAs and PAs who understand the challenges and opportunities you face
	Hear CEO presentations – Gain rare insight from executives on their expectations of EAs and PAs and the skills they believe make an outstanding assistant
	Gain career guidance – Further your career by listening to senior EAs talk about how they got to where they are
	Motivate yourself – You'll be exposed to a perfect balance of practical sessions with insights from motivational and inspirational speakers, so you can be sure it will be a fun yet informative day

who should attend?

Any Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or office administration professional looking for a fun but useful day where they can also learn valuable skills, network and gain inspirational advice for the coming year.

key themes

• Develop a better understanding of the business and your manager's role requirements
  
• Work smarter and faster with the newest technologies
  
• Learn which skills are in demand and align this with your skills and qualifications
  
• Find effective mentors who will help you progress in your career
  
• Improve your communication skills and deal confidently with difficult people and situations
  
• Plan effective events and gain tips for sourcing the best venues and catering services
  
• Understand where the EA/PA role is heading and strategically plan your career
  
• Apply positive psychology techniques to increase resilience, master stress and enhance performance
  
• Sharpen your influencing skills to get what you want from your manager and vice versa