Before becoming an Executive Assistant and the founder of Virtual Executive Administrator, Deidre began her journey to organizational excellence during summers while working for her parents. Tagging along with her mother to the summer church camp while she managed the office operations, and helping at her father’s office supply store, planted the seeds that would lead to a vast career in providing solutions that ensure that things run smoothly. Deidre has further honed this passion for the past 25 years, working as an Executive Assistant supporting professionals, entrepreneurs, and C-Level executives in the profit and non-profit sectors, developing, creating, and initiating practices that allow for greater productivity and time spent growing and cultivating business processes. She stays current on industry best practices through her membership in professional affiliations. She has a unique ability to model diplomacy, adaptability, and professionalism while building and nurturing working relationships with colleagues and clients. In 2017, she founded Virtual Executive Administrator. Having been a trusted partner to senior level executives, she cultivated this expertise into providing these same essentials to executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs in a virtual environment. Her mission is to assist clients in effectively communicating and connecting with their target audience by providing top-notch administrative services so that they can focus on cultivating their business brand. She has excelled at the full cycle of executive support activities including:• Acting as the gatekeeper for executive offices to prioritizing requests and tasks to ensure they can focus valuable time on more important activities• Arranging complex, detailed plans and itineraries for domestic, international, commercial, and corporate travel• Designing, organizing, and coordinating conferences, meetings, seminars, and exhibits• Managing relationships within the private and public sector