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Finding Your Voice With Confidence: Managing Up as an Executive Assistant

Friday 13th February 2026 12.00pm - 1.00pm - GMT

Location: Online

Join us for a powerful and practical Power Hour with David Roylance, designed to help Executive Assistants find their voice, build confidence and manage upwards with clarity and impact. Managing up is a critical skill for assistants working closely with senior leaders, yet it’s rarely taught explicitly. This session will explore how to communicate with confidence, influence effectively and position yourself as a trusted strategic partner.

In this interactive online session, David Roylance will share insight drawn from his extensive experience working with senior leaders and their support teams. You’ll gain practical tools to navigate challenging conversations, assert boundaries professionally and contribute with confidence at the highest level, while maintaining strong, trusted relationships.

Key takeaways you can expect from the session

• Increased confidence in expressing your ideas and professional perspective

• Practical techniques for managing upwards with clarity and credibility

• Tools to handle difficult conversations and challenge constructively

• Insight into influencing without formal authority

• A clearer understanding of your value as a strategic partner

Speaker

David Roylance

Helping Entrepreneurs and Employees Shine with Influence and Impact

Entrepreneurs: Struggling with a pipeline or sales problem?
Employees: Feeling undervalued or overlooked for promotions?

At Speak to Shine International, we empower individuals to master the skills and techniques used by actors and politicians to become more influential and impactful in their world. Drawing on my background as a professional actor and theatre director, I’ve transitioned these insights into the business world, helping clients see and address the bigger picture.

As a director, I understood the perspective an actor couldn’t see from the stage. Now, I bring that same clarity to entrepreneurs seeking better pipelines or sales performance and employees aiming to elevate their careers.

Results we deliver:

- Clients regularly achieve promotions, boosting their income by 30-40%.
- Entrepreneurs see significant business growth, including a 38x increase in conversions.

I’m also a multiple Amazon best-selling author, an award-winning coach, and one of the Top 40 influencers for women in banking.

Strategic PA Network is an active, professional networking group for Personal Assistants, Executive Assistants, Virtual Assistants, Administrators, and Office Managers. Whether based in the UK or around the world, we are proudly all-inclusive and not county-specific; anyone is welcome to attend our events and be part of our thriving community.

Over the past ten years, we have organically grown into a supportive and empowering network where Assistants come together to learn, connect, and grow. Our mission is to provide a credible platform that encourages industry awareness, meaningful connections, and shared best practices.

Learning and development are at the core of everything we do, with our events exploring essential topics that bring value, spark insight, and deliver revelatory moments.

At Strategic PA Network, we believe in the power of community - lifting each other up, celebrating every success, and inspiring Assistance to reach their full potential.

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