Assistant advisory and training

The right assistant changes everything.

I spent nearly fifteen years in executive support. Today I help leaders find the person who truly fits them, and I help assistants become the one every leader wants to keep.

13Years as an assistant
BothSides of the desk
90Days of support after every hire

For leaders and companies

Find the assistant who fits the way you lead.

Most hiring problems begin before the search does. The role was never defined, the expectations stayed unspoken, and the CV looked right on paper. I work from the other side, because I sat in that chair for thirteen years and I know what the job actually asks for.

Start next week

Interim support

An experienced assistant, available now. For maternity cover, a sudden gap, a busy quarter, or simply to feel what the right support does before you commit to a permanent hire.

  • Experienced people I know personally
  • Fast, because I am not searching from zero
  • Can become permanent when it works
The long term hire

Permanent placement

We define the role properly first, then I run the search, then I sit in your process as a neutral second opinion. And I stay for the first ninety days, because assistants rarely leave in month one. They leave in month four, when the rhythm never formed.

  • The role defined before the search begins
  • Chemistry read by someone who did the job
  • Ninety days of support after the start date
  • A working agreement between you both

Every assistant I place starts with my book in their hands on day one.

Train the team you have

Workshops for your assistants

Sometimes the people are right and the support still is not working. Then the answer is not a new hire. I work with the assistants you already have, online or in your office.

  • Speaking the language of leadership
  • Protecting your time without saying no
  • Owning the calendar instead of reacting to it
  • Professional presence at the front desk
  • The first ninety days, for someone newly hired

Fewer things fall through, your assistants stop waiting to be asked, and good people stay longer.

How it works

Three steps, one partnership.

1

Clarity

We define what this role really needs, what success looks like in ninety days, and what fit means inside your company.

2

Chemistry

I find the people and sit beside you through the process, reading the signals that decide whether two people will work well together.

3

Rhythm

I stay through the first ninety days, so the partnership forms properly and the person you hired is still there in a year.

For assistants

You were never just support.

You are the rhythm behind leadership. You see what is coming, you hold what matters, and you carry more than anyone ever writes down. I did that job for thirteen years, so everything here comes from the chair you are sitting in.

Live and online

Online workshops

Small, practical sessions on the things that actually decide your day. Speaking the language of leadership, protecting your time, and being seen as a partner instead of a pair of hands.

Five seats a month

1:1 clarity calls

One hour, just you and me, on whatever is in front of you right now. An interview, a difficult executive, or a decision about your next step. You leave with something you can use the same week.

English and German

VA Business Path

Between roles, or ready to work for yourself? This is the same skill you already have, sold in a different way. Ten workbooks take you from where you are today to your first paying client, at your own pace, with everything to download.

  • Find the niche that fits what you already know
  • Build an offer and set a price you can say out loud
  • Find the first clients and keep them
  • Written for assistants, so nothing starts from zero

On LinkedIn

Every week I share what I am seeing from the inside: the EA world, building a VA business, and the real side of recruiting life.

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The First 90 Days as an Assistant, by Jennifer Reineke

The book

The first ninety days decide everything.

Most assistants are handed a laptop and a calendar and left to work the rest out alone. This is the method I wish someone had given me. It walks through the first three months step by step, using the CLEAR framework, so a new assistant builds trust early instead of hoping it appears.

The CLEAR framework Available on Amazon
Jennifer Reineke

Meet the founder

Hey, I am Jennifer.

I spent nearly fifteen years in executive support, thirteen of them as an assistant to executives across several industries. In that time I learned that leadership rarely fails through big mistakes. It fails through small gaps in clarity and trust, the ones nobody names until it is too late.

I was never only an assistant. I was the person the whole company came to, the one who put the right information in the right hands and kept things moving quietly behind the scenes. That is the job as I understand it, and it is what I look for when I place someone.

Today I work on both sides of the desk. I help leaders find and keep the right assistant, and I help assistants grow into the calm, confident partner every leader is quietly hoping for.

It is not about who leads and who supports. It is about how both move together.

Let us talk

Tell me what you need.

Whether you are looking for the right assistant, or you are the assistant looking for your next level, the best place to start is a conversation.