AI Foundations for Administrative Professionals
Understand what AI can and cannot do, where it fits into the administrative role, and how to use it confidently without feeling overwhelmed by the technology.
For companies, EA teams, administrative communities, employee resource and professional groups, and any organization that needs its administrative professionals supported through real AI adoption.
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The Case
Administrative professionals sit at the center of information flow. When they use AI well, the whole organization moves faster. When they are left to figure it out alone, you get inconsistent practice, avoidable risk, and quiet frustration.
Most tool rollouts skip this group entirely, or hand them a generic session built for engineers. Training designed for administrative work closes that gap with realistic examples, clear guardrails, and shared standards.
The result is not a team that uses AI for everything. It is a team that knows exactly when to use it, how to verify it, and when a human must stay in the loop.
Outcomes
Curriculum
Understand what AI can and cannot do, where it fits into the administrative role, and how to use it confidently without feeling overwhelmed by the technology.
Move beyond the search for a perfect prompt by giving AI clear context, intent, and the information it needs. Learn to work conversationally, refine the response, and verify the result before using it.
Use AI to help draft, refine, shorten, and strengthen emails, announcements, talking points, executive-ready messages, and other communications while protecting the executive's voice and using human judgment before anything is sent.
Use AI to support the meeting lifecycle: agendas, pre-reads, briefing notes, meeting preparation, summaries, decisions, action items, follow-ups, and executive-ready recaps.
Use AI as a thinking partner for complex scheduling situations involving priorities, required attendees, time zones, recurring meetings, conflicts, executive preferences, and EA-to-EA coordination. The administrative professional remains responsible for the calendar and final decision.
Strengthen executive briefings, stakeholder context, meeting preparation, priorities, travel, agendas, and supporting materials. Use AI to organize what matters while anticipating what the executive will need next.
Look at repetitive administrative work, identify unnecessary steps, and simplify the process before introducing automation. Not everything needs to be automated.
Build repeatable processes and practical workflows, identify where automation is appropriate, and use SOP and knowledge-management thinking to make work easier to follow while keeping human review in place.
Strengthen anticipation, priority awareness, business understanding, and the ability to connect information. Use AI to support sound decisions while evolving from task execution into a more strategic executive partnership.
Understand confidentiality, sensitive information, hallucinations/inaccuracies, company policies, verification, and when AI should not be used. AI can assist the work. The administrative professional owns the judgment.
Move from execution toward influence by strengthening visibility, business acumen, relationships, and strategic value. Reinvest the capacity gained through AI into work where administrative judgment matters most.
Understand how AI is changing the administrative profession and how to continue building the skills that create long-term career value. Explore evolving roles, transferable skills, professional development, visibility, and how administrative professionals can prepare for what comes next.
Formats
45 to 60 minutes
An energizing, practical session for conferences, summits, and large administrative gatherings.
INQUIRE ABOUT KEYNOTEHalf day or full day
Hands-on practice using AI for real administrative work, including context, communication, workflows, and practical scenarios from the team’s actual work.
INQUIRE ABOUT WORKSHOPSingle session or series
Focused training for an in-house EA, administrative, or executive support team.
INQUIRE ABOUT TEAM TRAININGScoped with your team
A tailored curriculum built around your tools, policies, and administrative workflows.
INQUIRE ABOUT CUSTOM PROGRAMCustomization
Sessions are built around your approved tools, your data and confidentiality policies, and the administrative workflows your teams run every day.
That includes reviewing role expectations, common request types, escalation paths, and the systems your administrative professionals already live in, so practice sessions use your reality rather than a generic scenario.
If your organization restricts certain tools or use cases, training reinforces those boundaries instead of working around them.