Adam Fidler was delighted to speak at the annual conference of Executive and Personal Assistants Assocation (EPAA) on Thursday 15 November 2019 in London. The conference, attended by over 100 PAs and EAs, hosted a range of speakers, including The Rt Hon Lord Blunkett, who Adam Fidler shared a Q&A session with at end of the conference. Lord Blunkett, who admitted he actually started out as a secretary in his career, learning shorthand and typing (the same can be said for Adam Fidler), is a great advocate of the importance and value of the PA and EA. Lord Blunkett shared many examples of where he has seen how inoperative Executives can be without the right Executive Support. Adam Fidler’s talk beforehand, which focussed on new EA capabilities, dovetailed precisely into the speech that followed by Lord Blunkett. “What an honour and privilege to share the stage with David Blankett,” commented Adam. I think you’ll also agree! Huge thanks, as ever, go to Victoria Darragh, Founder of EPAA, for her insight and commitment to the profession and for arranging, yet again, a brilliant line up of content pertinent to the modern EA. [The image above shows Lord Blunkett, alongside Adam Fidler.]