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The Agile Assistant - 2026 Conference for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Conference On-Demand

Not Able to Attend the Live Event?
No Problem!

Don’t let travel, budget, or time restrictions stop you from having your breakthrough learning experience

We know you’re busy, but even if you’re not there in “body,” you can still be there in “mind.” Our on-demand conference replay is a convenient, cost-effective alternative that fulfills your desire for professional enrichment without a trip to Las Vegas!

Office Dynamics produces beautifully crafted, professionally edited videos of each session during the conference, and we’re making them available in one convenient package. That means you can learn on your own schedule and from the comfort of your own desk or home.

How It Works: Easy Access, at Your Fingertips

Immediately after the conference, we add our signature and elegant Office Dynamics touches to each video. The quality is on par with the live experience—it’s like having a front-row seat at the conference!

You’ll receive online access for 3 months to watch the videos and a downloadable participant workbook and experience the power of our world-class speaker lineup—all on your own time.

Login credentials are delivered within three weeks of the conference’s end date. You’ll create and activate your account, and the learning will be at your fingertips, at your command, and on your schedule.

Please Note: If you’re interested in watching this as a group, you will need to call 800-STAR-139 for a group license.

Conference On-Demand
for Assistants Includes

CONFERENCE RECORDINGS

Watch two and half days of amazing career-catapulting content from our dynamic speakers for the comfort of your home or office. View as many times as you like for three months.

Innovative and Trend-Setting Information

At Office Dynamics, our mission has always centered around creating a path forward by providing the latest trends and best practices for the administrative profession.

Our Resourceful Conference Workbook

Participate and engage with the conference workbook and educational resources from our speakers.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be given a certificate of completion with continuing education credits after the conference via email.

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On-Demand Access

Sessions Included

Every keynote and session from the 2026 Conference for Administrative Excellence, available to watch on your schedule.

Opening Session

The Agile Assistant: Pivot, Progress, Thrive

Joan Burge

In this powerful opening keynote, Joan Burge reframes agility as a core professional mindset that enables administrative professionals to lead with confidence in the face of constant change. This session sets the foundation for the entire conference by redefining the assistant’s role as a proactive partner who helps organizations adapt, advance, and succeed.

Learning Outcomes
  • Understand what professional agility truly means and why it is critical in today’s evolving workplace
  • Shift your perspective on change, disruption, and uncertainty as opportunities for growth and influence
  • Gain a high-level introduction to the 12 Dimensions of Agility that guide the conference experience
Collaboration Agility

Moving Beyond Teamwork to Collective Impact

Joan Burge

This interactive session redefines collaboration as a fluid, evolving process rather than a fixed approach to teamwork. Attendees experience how collaboration agility strengthens decision-making, deepens connections, and drives results when there is no preset playbook.

Learning Outcomes
  • Distinguish between teamwork and collaboration and understand why flexibility fuels stronger outcomes
  • Confidently contribute ideas while adapting as direction and solutions evolve
  • Leverage diverse perspectives to create clarity, momentum, and collective impact
Mindset Agility

The Agile Mindset: Thinking on Your Feet Beliefs That Change How You Act

Starla West

This practical session focuses on the internal belief shifts that move Executive Assistants from reactive problem solvers to composed, strategic accelerators. Through guided exercises and real-time application, participants learn how to reframe uncertainty, think faster under pressure, and translate agile beliefs into immediate action.

Learning Outcomes
  • Identify four core agile beliefs that shape confident, strategic thinking
  • Shift unhelpful mental patterns into productive beliefs in high-pressure moments
  • Apply simple mental models and commit to a 30-day micro practice that reinforces lasting change
Communication Agility

Speak with Impact™: The Confidence and Communication Skills That Make Agility Possible

Peggy Vasquez

As routine work becomes automated, administrative professionals create value through how they communicate, influence, and lead conversations. This session introduces the Speak with Impact™ approach and shows how confident communication enables agility, credibility, and long-term career relevance.

Learning Outcomes
  • Shift from task-focused updates to language that clearly communicates impact and value
  • Build confidence, presence, and clarity in everyday conversations and high-stakes discussions
  • Use intentional communication to navigate change, influence outcomes, and strengthen professional authority
Team Building

The Rhythm of Agility: A Live Rhythmic Experience for EAs

Natalie Spiro

This high-energy, interactive experience brings agility to life through rhythm, showing how Executive Assistants listen, adapt, and respond in real time. Participants become part of a live agility orchestra, discovering how awareness, collaboration, and composure create impact in constantly changing environments.

Learning Outcomes
  • Strengthen agile listening skills to anticipate needs and respond with intention
  • Experience adaptive collaboration by shifting roles and staying aligned through change
  • Learn how to remain centered, calm, and effective under pressure while leading through chaos
Change Agility

REINVENT – Personal Change Agility in a World That Will Not Slow Down

Daren Martin, PhD

In this energizing keynote, Dr. Daren Martin reframes change as a personal responsibility and a powerful catalyst for growth. Attendees learn how intentional reinvention strengthens confidence, relevance, and long-term value as roles, technology, and expectations continue to evolve.

Learning Outcomes
  • Understand why reinvention is essential to building personal change agility
  • Apply a clear framework to adapt mindset, skills, and contribution as demands shift
  • Shift from reacting to change to using it as a strategic advantage
Strategic Agility

Do the Dark Work: Building the Conviction, Strategy, and Agility to Win

Anthony Trucks

This high-impact keynote reveals why true agility is built long before change arrives, through intentional preparation, discipline, and internal strategy. Attendees discover how doing the unseen work builds conviction and clarity, allowing them to stay composed, decisive, and effective when plans shift unexpectedly.

Learning Outcomes
  • Understand how preparation and discipline create strategic readiness before pressure hits
  • Recognize why agility is driven by preparation rather than reaction in moments of change
  • Learn a practical framework to strengthen conviction, confidence, and execution under pressure
Leadership Agility

Story-Driven Leadership for the Agile Assistant: Lead Without the Title

Aleya Harris

This session equips administrative professionals with practical storytelling frameworks that build alignment, credibility, and influence in fast-paced environments. Attendees learn how to use story as a leadership tool to create clarity, spark accountability, and drive action without relying on a formal title.

Learning Outcomes
  • Use structured storytelling frameworks to build buy-in and communicate with clarity
  • Turn follow-up into follow-through by framing requests with purpose and shared stakes
  • Reframe shifting priorities with language that reduces confusion and strengthens collaboration
Tech Agility

Get Control with Digital Dexterity: Smarter, Faster Ways to Work Across Microsoft 365 and AI

Mike Song

This high-energy session helps administrative professionals regain control by building digital dexterity and a smarter approach to working across Microsoft 365 and AI tools. You will learn how to work faster, reduce overwhelm, and create clarity using practical techniques you can apply immediately.

Learning Outcomes
  • Use high-impact Microsoft 365 and AI shortcuts to streamline email, scheduling, organizing, and information management
  • Apply stronger prompting and digital workflows that produce clearer, more accurate results with less effort
  • Build a tech agile mindset that supports continuous learning and confidence as tools and technology evolve
Partnership Agility

Building Adaptive, High-Trust EA–Executive Partnerships

Jessica Vann

This practical, interactive session explores how high-performing EA and executive partnerships evolve through change, pressure, and shifting priorities. Attendees gain insight into how agility, trust, and thoughtful recalibration turn strong working relationships into true strategic partnerships.

Learning Outcomes
  • Define partnership agility and understand why adaptability is essential in high-stakes environments
  • Apply a practical framework to assess priorities, navigate change, and create multiple paths forward
  • Strengthen trust and strategic impact by bringing agility into daily executive partnership decisions
Emotional and Resilience Agility

The Short Cut: How Strategic Adaptability Outperforms Grit

Courtney Clark

This thought-provoking session challenges the idea that success always comes from pushing harder and never giving up. Attendees learn how strategic adaptability, not blind persistence, leads to smarter decisions, reduced burnout, and more meaningful progress during change.

Learning Outcomes
  • Recognize how overreliance on persistence can unintentionally limit progress and results
  • Increase flexibility and adaptability when navigating uncertainty and competing demands
  • Apply a simple decision framework to clarify priorities and focus on goals that truly matter
Career Agility

Staying Relevant, Valued, and Ready

Joan Burge and Julie Reed

In this candid, conversational session, Joan Burge and Julie Reed explore what it truly takes to sustain a meaningful and resilient career as the workplace continues to evolve. Through real world insight and honest dialogue, attendees are challenged to think more strategically about relevance, value, and long term career confidence in an AI influenced environment.

Learning Outcomes
  • Understand career agility beyond titles and traditional advancement paths
  • Recognize how judgment, discretion, and decision support increase professional value
  • Gain clarity on staying visible, relevant, and confident during change and uncertainty
Personal and Wellbeing Agility

Boundaries as the Backbone of Agility: How Administrative Professionals Stay Responsive Without Burning Out

Sheryl Green

This practical session reframes boundaries as a critical skill that makes agility sustainable rather than exhausting. Attendees learn how clear guardrails around time, priorities, and access create confidence, clarity, and stronger partnerships in fast-moving environments.

Learning Outcomes
  • Protect capacity and energy while remaining responsive and adaptable
  • Reduce distractions and manage pivots with clarity instead of chaos
  • Strengthen executive partnerships through clearer expectations and priorities
Time Agility

Focused, Flexible, Effective

Lisa Olsen

This session redefines traditional time management as time agility, the ability to stay focused, calm, and effective as priorities continually shift. Attendees learn how to adapt with clarity and confidence, turning constant change into an opportunity to lead rather than react.

Learning Outcomes
  • Adapt quickly and confidently as priorities shift throughout the day
  • Reprioritize in real time while maintaining focus, credibility, and composure
  • Protect energy, momentum, and influence in fast-paced, high-demand environments
Closing Session

Precision Under Pressure: How Agile Assistants Move with Purpose in a Fast-Changing World

JJ Villar

In this powerful closing keynote, JJ Villar brings the conference full circle, showing how true agility is built through awareness, preparation, and intentional action under pressure. Attendees gain a practical framework to move with clarity, respond with confidence, and execute with precision when it matters most.

Learning Outcomes
  • Recognize the difference between reactive motion and intentional, high performance agility
  • Strengthen the ability to anticipate needs and respond effectively in real time
  • Apply a practical framework to improve decision making, alignment, and execution under pressure

On Your Own

Watch the conference session recordings from anywhere, anytime. Enjoy three-month access, pause, rewind, skip ahead, or rewatch your favorite session/s.

As A Group

Grow together as a team and amplify what you all have learned. Enjoy three-month access, pause, rewind, skip ahead, or rewatch your favorite session/s.Contact Melia Amira at +1-800-STAR-139, or [email protected].

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Pass Options

More details on our agenda, speakers, and special sessions will be released soon—but why wait? Be among the first to secure your spot at the 2026 Conference and take advantage of our exclusive Early, Early Bird pricing. Seats fill quickly every year, so lock in your registration now and guarantee your place at this transformative event.

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$ 2,790
  • Access to All Sessions
  • Access to Elite Assistant Certification Course
  • Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks
  • Social Fusion Mixer
  • Joan Burge Gala
  • Conference & Elite Workbooks
  • Networking Opportunities
  • Certificate of Attendance (1.3 CEUs)
  • Elite Assistant Certificate (.6 CEUs)
  • * Option to Add Conference Session Recordings
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$ 1,995
  • Access to All Sessions
  • Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks
  • Social Fusion Mixer
  • Joan Burge Gala
  • Workbook
  • Networking Opportunities
  • Certificate of Attendance (1.3 CEUs)
  • * Option to Add Session Recordings
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Live-Stream

Watch Live + 3-Month Access to Recordings
$ 895
  • View All Sessions in Real-time
  • 3-Month Access to Session Recordings
  • Digital Workbook
  • Virtual Networking Opportunities
  • Attend From Your Home or Office Anywhere in the World
  • View Sessions More Than Once
  • Pause, Play, Rewind, Fast Forward
  • Certificate of Attendance (1.3 CEUs)
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3-Month Access to Recordings
$ 795
  • 3-Month Access to Session Recordings
  • Digital Workbook
  • Attend From Your Home or Office Anywhere in the World
  • View Sessions More Than Once
  • Pause, Play, Rewind, Fast Forward
  • Certificate of Attendance (1.3 CEUs)
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2026 Conference Registration Is Now Closed

Registration for the 2026 Conference for Administrative Excellence is now closed for both in-person and livestream attendance. But you can still experience the learning!

2026 Conference On Demand: Access the sessions after the conference and learn at your own pace.

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