Today's EA must be flexible, resourceful and highly communicative. The most successful EAs have a strong sense of urgency, think creatively about how to support leadership and consistently provide ...

A good executive assistant is worth every penny an employer spends on wages and benefits. A poor executive assistant is not only a burden on the payroll, but also becomes a source of stress for the ...

As an entrepreneur, you put a great deal of thought in surrounding yourself with talented and dynamic people who add to the success of your business endeavors. The abilities and contributions of your ...

As an executive coach, I found it ironic that as I am strongly recommending my executive clients to acquire an executive assistant you published “The Vanishing Executive Assistant” (Exchange, Jan. 18) ...

Good help is hard to find. Family offices, the private investment firms of the ultra-wealthy, are increasingly willing to pay extra for it. The talent war between family offices and Wall Street has ...

For decades, executive support has been treated as a binary decision: Either you need a full-time, in-house executive assistant or you don’t. That assumption no longer reflects how most leadership ...

Katie Thomas is a senior executive assistant at Uber and a former assistant to Postmates' CFO. She worked her way up in tech by networking and posting frequently on LinkedIn. She says coming prepared ...