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Monique Helstrom

Former EA to Simon Sinek | Executive Partnership Expert

Monique Helstrom
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Former EA to Simon Sinek | Executive Partnership Expert

Monique Helstrom is a speaker, executive partnership coach, administrative recruiter, and former Executive Assistant to Simon Sinek, where she spent nearly a decade as his producer, strategic partner, and trusted right hand.

With more than 20 years of experience inside high-performing teams, Monique brings a rare perspective: she has sat in the EA seat, coached executives on how to better partner with assistants, and recruited top administrative talent for demanding roles. She knows what gets assistants respected, hired, promoted, overlooked, burned out, and underestimated.

Monique’s keynotes and workshops focus on the real work behind modern administrative success: communication, confidence, self-awareness, executive presence, strategic partnership, career relevance, and sustainable performance.

Her sessions are candid, practical, funny, and refreshingly direct. Audiences leave with real scripts, sharper communication tools, stronger self-awareness, and a clearer understanding of how to stop operating like order takers and start showing up as strategic partners.

  • Kerry Kennedy, President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

    Monique’s incredible insight and expertise have been invaluable to us. Her creation and delivery of the workshop Values in Action has empowered teachers to meaningfully connect with their purpose and view themselves as human rights leaders in their classrooms, schools, and communities. With Monique’s warmth, originality and expertise, she makes it an enormously rewarding experience for everyone taking part.

  • Bonnie Low-Kramen, International Speaker, Trainer, & Author of “Be the Ultimate Assistant”

    Monique’s instant charm captures her audience from the moment she takes the stage. She is fun and funny and oh-so-intelligent, vulnerable, and wise. Her playfulness goes deep as she takes us on the adventure that is her life and we are moved and inspired. Monique has that magic and audiences can’t get enough.

  • Kari Iseminger, Office of the CEO, Target

    I have heard nothing but very positive feedback from the team. Your words of wisdom and tricks to unlock a strategic partnership with our executives were not just informative, they were impactful. Such valuable insights from someone that has been in our shoes really hit home.

  • Mitch Modell, President, Modell Sporting Goods

    Monique did a phenomenal job. At these events you usually want to take away one thing. I took away three: 1. Have meetings with my EA 10 mins every day, 2. I’ll never stay above the 7th floor in a hotel, 3. I’ll always include context when I ask for things from my assistant.

  • Nicky Christmas, Founder of Practically Perfect PA and The EA Campus

    Monique has spoken at several of our events and is a wonderful speaker. She has an unparalleled depth of knowledge when it comes to the assistant role and building a successful partnership. She radiates a passion for the Administrative role and what can be achieved when you bring your whole self to it. I highly recommend Monique – she really knows her stuff!

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