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Office Dynamics Launches!
After three years of riding the fence about whether to start her own training company, Joan decides to venture out, even though she has no money saved aside and no experience as a business owner, speaker, or corporate trainer.
Joan Burge amasses extensive research, using it to create a first-of-its-kind training program, The Star Achievement Series®, consisting of 4 full-day workshops.
Joan's first administrative book is published: The Survival Guide for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants.
Forum for Administrative Excellence
Office Dynamics hosts the first Forum for Administrative Excellence, a gathering of 16 assistants representing 6 large enterprises. They learn from Joan and share best practices on forming and leading administrative teams.
The Forum’s attendees encourage Joan to host the event annually, with Joan serving as facilitator and key speaker, designing the agenda and materials … Joan says, "Yes!"
The inaugural issue of StarQuest, an 8-page monthly color newsletter for administrative professionals "who are truly driven to continually improve their skills and knowledge and shoulder increasing responsibility", is released. Joan personally writes each issue for several years.
The Assistants and Managers Working in Partnership workshop is unveiled, and Joan begins teaching the program across the country.
The Star Achievement Series® Trainer Certification is born. Joan takes a huge leap to advance her successful curriculum so even more assistants can benefit from the training.
Coaching for executives
Joan commences coaching C-level executives and senior leaders on how to work effectively with their secretaries.
Joan and her husband, Dave Burge, relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Office Dynamics launches a free weekly e-zine
Monday Motivators™.
World Class Assistant™ "boot camp" for high-level executive assistants is announced.
Become an Inner Circle Assistant is released, and book sales have skyrocketed. The book is based on Joan's 35+ years in the administrative profession.
World Class Assistant™ Part 2 premier training program is released to satisfy the significant demand for additional training.
Joan releases her first free educational video series for assistants, 26 Weeks to Administrative Excellence, which immediately becomes a huge hit with assistants everywhere.
Joan authors Underneath It All … Post Graduate Revelations Lift Administrative Assistants to New Heights, donating 10% of the book proceeds to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
Joan’s yearly conference is renamed the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence, attracting attendees around the globe.
Adminology: Art + Science = Success is unveiled at the 17th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence.
Office Dynamics Ltd. changes its name to Office Dynamics International to communicate its far-reaching work inspiring greatness in administrative professionals and management support.
Who Took My Pen ... Again? is the first book published by Office Dynamics International and the first effort featuring 240 assistants who attended the 2011 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence; within 2 weeks of release this book becomes Amazon's #1 Best Seller in Secretarial Aids and Training. Fifty percent of the book’s proceeds are donated to children's cancer research.
Give Yourself Permission to Live a BIG Life, Joan’s first book for women in all walks of life, is released.
Office Dynamics announces its first ever 1-year monthly virtual webinar, BIG Life Mastermind program, SELLING OUT seats in 1 hour!
Office Dynamics celebrates its 25-year anniversary by offering a 90-minute webinar, The Star Performer's Secret Sauce: 25 Proven Tips to Administrative Excellence.
Office Dynamics releases a groundbreaking guide, Executives and Assistants Working in Partnership: The Definitive Guide.
LEARNING AT SEA takes place on the Royal Caribbean cruise line. The first administrative training event of its kind in the industry!
Office Dynamics hosts its 25th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence in stellar fashion.
Joan authors another book for executives and assistants, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed.
Office Dynamics’ 30th Year Anniversary! Ongoing celebrations planned for the year are nixed in March as the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joan created the Executive Support Series, a 48-video-based training course covering hundreds of nuances that equip assistants to provide the best executive support.
Quickly pivoting, Office Dynamics creates the Assistant Exchange, an online Facebook forum uniquely geared for assistants.
The inaugural Enlighten 2-day training event is presented virtually to sustain administrative assistants through a harsh year, presenting tools and tips in two tracks: a tech skills track and a power skills track.
Joan Burge and James Bristow, Ph.D., released a book for executives called The Executive’s Competitive Edge: Why You Need to Leverage the Talents and Time of an Executive Assistant. Within days, their book makes the Amazon #1 Hot Selling New Books!
Office Dynamics continues to innovate! After hearing chatter about the future launch of AI, and then researching ChatGPT in December 2021, Office Dynamics creates a June 2022 training session, “Assistants Working in Tandem with AI,” for the Enlighten event, making it one of the premier opportunities for assistants to become aware and learn more about AI.
Joan updates the Star Achievement Series® flagship training program for the 17th time and Office Dynamics launches the Star Achievement Series Second Generation! Client organizations flock back and want in-person training again!
Office Dynamics releases updated Second Editions of two best-selling books: Become an Inner Circle Assistant and Underneath It All.
Office Dynamics hosts the 30th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas for 450 in-person attendees and 200+ virtual attendees.
Office Dynamics partners with a long-time colleague of Joan’s, Mike Song, founder & CEO of GetControl! to present technical training classes called Digital Efficiency for Administrative Excellence, announced and marketed through Office Dynamics. (The first series of 6 classes garners 200 attendees in Q1 2024, a huge success!)
Joan is the 2023 recipient of the Jeannette Castellano Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their company and/or the Administrative Profession. The award was created in honor of Award Founder Sunny Nunan’s mother, Jeannette Castellano, celebrating her passion and dedication to her profession and inspiring the world’s first public recognition program for Administrative Professionals.
Office Dynamics publishes a front runner blog post, Working in Tandem with AI, to prepare assistants worldwide on how to leverage this emerging tool.
Joan updates The Executives & Assistants Working in Partnership: The Definitive Guide and publishes the 2nd Edition.
Office Dynamics launches the inaugural Elite Assistant certification program, a one-day pre-conference add-on featuring co-facilitators Lisa Olsen and Peggy Vasquez.
Office Dynamics is committed to continuing its legacy of being the PREMIER PROVIDER of administrative professional and executive assistant training and coaching.
