Burge, Joan: - Joan Burge is known as the red-lipstick-wearing Rock Star of administrative and executive assistant training and a successful entrepreneur who created a unique niche in 1990 by founding a training company that would uniquely provide sophisticated, robust educational programs and information to administrative professionals.Joan is an accomplished author (8 books), professional speaker, consultant, and corporate trainer. She is the creator of The Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence(TM); World Class Assistant(TM) Certification course; Star Achievement Series(R) Certification and Designation course; 30+ customized workshops, 200+ educational videos, 150+ articles, and nearly 1,000 blog posts for executive and administrative assistants.Her company, Office Dynamics International, is a global industry leader which offers a broad range of solutions and provides high-performance, sophisticated executive and administrative assistant training and coaching. One thing is clear: Executive assistants, their executives, HR business partners, administrators, and managers have come to rely on Office Dynamics International because only Joan is Joan.Joan Burge is an original; the foremost expert in the demanding field of management support. She put in the hard work and high investment required to earn the reputational excellence and uncompromising trust of leaders in business. She illuminates through her empowering teaching, building better work relationships between executives and their assistants.Joan's never-ending quest to provide top-notch educational programs has earned the respect of premier clients like Cisco Systems, AT&T, Kindred Healthcare, The Boeing Co., Humana Inc., Sunoco, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Nationwide Insurance, and Chevron.