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Today we celebrate International Women’s Day. The BBC have written an informative article about it here. Thank you to all the incredible women who have supported and who continue to support me.

This year the UN’s theme for 2023 is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. This theme aims to recognise and celebrate the contribution women and girls are making to technology and online education.

It seems appropriate for me to share today that I am headed to New York at the end of April as I have been invited by Halcyon Group to chair and speak at their “10th Global Personal Assistant & Executive Assistant  Summit”. It will be my first international speaking engagement since before the pandemic and my third visit to New York. My first one was with Virgin Vie when I was on a top sales trip. I had resigned my teaching career to become a speaker on mental health and started a sales post alongside. Virgin Vie treated us like royalty and organised some fantastic experiences. A highlight was sipping champagne on a private yacht watching the 4th July fireworks over the Statue of Liberty. I remember being awestruck that having had a serious postnatal mental illness had ultimately lead me there.  My second visit was in 2008 when I attended a National Speakers Association conference with some fellow speakers of the Professional Speakers Association that I was member of then. It was incredible to be at event in a room of such inspiring people.

To go back as a chair and speaker this time is even more exciting!

“10th Global Personal Assistant & Executive Assistant  Summit” will be a hybrid event, we shall certainly using technology and offering online education relevant to #executiveassistants and #personalassistants.

Please do share the details with any of your contacts that may benefit from this event. Full details can be found here.

I am looking forward to meeting speakers and delegates from previous events by Halcyon Group and meeting new ones.

Have a wonderful International Women’s Day.

Elaine