HOW TO BECOME A CEO'S GO-TO EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: A practical guide to becoming the excellent Executive Assistant every CEO wants

Your CEO’s calendar is full, priorities keep shifting, and everyone seems to need something urgently. As an Executive Assistant, you’re often the person expected to keep things moving. How do you handle that responsibility well and become someone your executive can confidently depend on?

How to Become a CEO’s Go-To Executive Assistant offers practical guidance for building that trust. Drawing on her experience supporting CEOs and senior executives across the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria, Deola Udah shares lessons from the everyday realities of executive support, including the mistakes that helped shape her approach.

Across ten chapters, you’ll learn how to understand your CEO’s working style, protect their time, anticipate what they may need next and communicate without leaving important questions unanswered. You’ll also explore how to follow tasks through to completion, approach problems with useful recommendations, create order in busy working environments and exercise good judgement within your responsibilities.

To help you put these lessons into practice, the book includes a 30-Day Go-To EA Plan and a practical toolkit: a CEO familiarisation template, an EA follow-through tracker, an executive update template and a daily brief. These tools give you a starting point for improving how you organise your work and support your executive.

Whether you’re preparing for your first EA role, settling into a new position or looking to strengthen years of experience, this book will help you see your role more clearly and approach it with greater confidence. Get your copy and start building the habits that make you your CEO’s go-to EA.