Joan Burge is known as the pioneer of administrative and executive assistant training and a successful entrepreneur who created a unique business niche by founding a movement to help administrators see themselves as professionals so they could excel in business.

Joan is an accomplished author, professional speaker, consultant and corporate trainer. Joan has authored four groundbreaking books for administrative professionals including the Amazon Best Seller, Who Took My Pen … Again? Her administrative-career “bibles” entitled Become an Inner Circle Assistant and Underneath It All continue to be favorites among executive and administrative assistants worldwide.

In 1990, Joan created a business in an untapped niche, overcoming monumental obstacles involving corporations’ and managers’ attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes about executive assistants and administrative professionals. She dedicated herself to inspiring excellence and encouraging administrative professionals to reach for the stars! Her company, Office Dynamics International, is the global industry leader offering a broad range of solutions and providing high-performance, sophisticated executive and administrative assistant training and coaching.

One thing is clear: Executive assistants, their executives, HR business partners, administrators and managers have come to rely on Office Dynamics International, because “only Joan is Joan.” Joan Burge is an original; the foremost expert in the demanding field of management support. She put in the hard work and high investment required to earn the reputational excellence and uncompromising trust of leaders in business. She illuminates through her empowering teaching, building better work relationships between executives and their assistants.

Joan’s never-ending quest to provide top-notch educational programs has earned the respect of premier clients like Cisco Systems, AT&T, Abbott Laboratories, Boeing, Humana, Sunoco, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Sandals Resorts, Nationwide Insurance, and Chevron.

Joan is best known for her highly-acclaimed Star Achievement Series® Certification and Professional Designation course which promotes “Star Performance” among executive assistants and administrative staff. This flagship training program has inspired thousands of administrative professionals to achieve excellence.

She is the creator and host of the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence™ (started in 1993); the World Class Assistant™ Certification course; Mastering Exceptional Self-Leadership Certification course; and more than 40 customized workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants. She created several educational video series for assistants including 26 Weeks to Administrative Excellence, Reality Check, Adminology™ and Now Is the Time.

Joan is a member of the American Society for Training & Development, National Speakers Association Las Vegas Chapter, and Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.