Editor's Letters
Issue: November / December 2018
Issue: November / December 2018
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars” ~ Martin Luther King
By Lucy Brazier OBE - November 30, 2018
Sometimes, as John Lennon said, life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.
Editor's Letters
Issue: September / October 2018
Issue: September / October 2018
Change has got to come
By Lucy Brazier OBE - September 25, 2018
Assistants are still nowhere near being recognised for the incredible resource that they are or could be to their businesses.
Editor's Letters
Issue: May / June 2018
Issue: May / June 2018
Why it’s time to call time on politics and do what’s right for the profession!
By Lucy Brazier OBE - May 26, 2018
There is no room for egos or politics in this journey. We must work together to drive the profession forward, explains Lucy Brazier
Editor's Letters
Issue: March / April 2018
Issue: March / April 2018
Changing Lives One Person at a Time
By Lucy Brazier OBE - March 31, 2018
We have just celebrated the magazine’s seventh birthday. Happy Birthday Executive Secretary and here’s to many more says Lucy Brazier
Editor's Letters
Issue: January / February 2018
Issue: January / February 2018
If you are waiting for the right time, it’s now!
By Lucy Brazier OBE - January 30, 2018
For the last seven years, I have been on a mission to change the world for Assistants.
Editor's Letters
Issue: September / October 2017
Issue: September / October 2017
‘A Tsunami of Love’
By Lucy Brazier OBE - September 25, 2017
When we relaunched as a global publication in 2011, we were very clear that we wanted to create not just a magazine, but a community explains Lucy Brazier
Editor's Letters
Issue: July / August 2017
Issue: July / August 2017
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans ~ John Lennon
By Lucy Brazier OBE - July 27, 2017
The profession has been shaken by the news that Vickie Sokol Evans, the world’s leading Microsoft trainer, has been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer
Editor's Letters
Issue: May / June 2017
Issue: May / June 2017
A Small Window in Which to Make History
By Lucy Brazier OBE - May 30, 2017
We are in the process of creating and redefining the new role for future generations. We want you to be part of it says Lucy Brazier
Editor's Letters
Issue: March / April 2017
Issue: March / April 2017
Demand to be inspired and inspire others! ~ Al-Husein N Madhany
By Lucy Brazier OBE - March 24, 2017
Al-Husein N Madhany blew the stereotypes surrounding the Assistant role out of the water this weekend at Executive Support LIVE in London
Editor's Letters
Issue: January / February 2017
Issue: January / February 2017
The Power of Association
By Lucy Brazier OBE - January 25, 2017
On 1 February, one of the oldest Associations for Assistants in the world, EUMA (European Management Assistants) changes its name and brand to IMA (International Management Assistants). And this year, the IAAP (c) celebrates 75 years.
Editor's Letters
Issue: November / December 2016
Issue: November / December 2016
A Modern Day Epidemic
By Lucy Brazier OBE - November 25, 2016
Our global and UK Workplace Bullying Survey results have been released; we finally have what we need to prove our point and give the HR departments facts.
Editor's Letters
Issue: September / October 2016
Issue: September / October 2016
How Will You Serve Your Profession?
By Lucy Brazier OBE - September 26, 2016
Those of us that are doing well have a duty to give back. As Gandhi said ‘the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others’.
Editor's Letters
Issue: July / August 2016
Issue: July / August 2016
Space – the final frontier
By Lucy Brazier OBE - July 26, 2016
I am a great believer that if you don’t make time for recreation then ultimately you will need to make time for illness, explains Lucy Brazier
Editor's Letters
Issue: May / June 2016
Issue: May / June 2016
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul ~ Invictus, William Ernest Henley
By Lucy Brazier OBE - May 29, 2016
Will you take up the challenge? Will you be the master of your fate? Will you be the captain of your soul?
Editor's Letters
Issue: March / April 2016
Issue: March / April 2016
Don’t just count your years, make your years count
By Lucy Brazier OBE - March 25, 2016
Back in 2011, with 23 years’ publishing experience behind me, I took the leap of faith and launched Executive Secretary as a global magazine
Editor's Letters
Issue: January / February 2016
Issue: January / February 2016
The Gift
By Lucy Brazier OBE - January 28, 2016
The saying goes that if you give a man a fish, you have fed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish, you have fed him for a lifetime. For the last year we have been working on something very special. It is amongst one the most exciting projects that I have... Read more »