For experienced Executive Assistants, becoming a Chief of Staff can be a natural next step in their career. EAs have a unique position from which they see operations from the top down, equipping them with invaluable insights and experience. Both positions involve working closely with senior leaders, managing competing priorities and ensuring the wider business […]

Lily Shippen, the Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant and HR recruitment specialists, share the results of their 2026 salary survey which analysed EA Manager salaries, responsibilities, and perceptions for UK-based professionals. The survey included 126 responses, primarily from London, Manchester, and Leeds, across various sectors. 1. Role definition and benchmarking challenges faced in this EA Manager […]

From booking rail tickets and tracking expenses to arranging reliable executive transfers, business travel involves plenty of details that need to fall into place. In Part 2 of our Business Travel edit, we look at services designed to take the admin out of the process, helping PAs and EAs save time, stay organised and ensure […]

From executive transfers and all-inclusive retreats to smarter train bookings, discover services making business travel easier from start to finish. Business travel may be part of the job, but for the assistants arranging it, there’s rarely anything routine about it. Every journey involves timings to coordinate, preferences to remember, budgets to manage and the inevitable […]