Mentoring
Adele Blair (our Founder) is a down-to-earth, empathetic mentor, but she’ll push you!
Armed with 20 years corporate experience (transitioning from EA to Chief of Staff), a further 20 years as an entrepreneur (5 start ups and 3 exits), living globally, Adele has specific lived experiences and knowledge to share.
Let's Chat About
- Becoming a Fractional Chief of Staff
- Your transition from EA to Chief of Staff
- Your entrepreneurial path
- Life as an entrepreneur – it’s tough I get it!
How I can help?
It’s simple, actual, real life experience!
Unlike a coach who has been taught to ask you probing questions, they don’t always have the full depth of experience you might need to help you on your way.
A mentor has the real life experience to share and guide you through decision making.
Sharing my experiences (the good, the bad and, the ugly) is something I’m passionate about and can’t wait to support you on your journey – whatever that looks like.
You can take a look at my My Story below and see if it resonates.
My Story
Business has been woven into my DNA since the day I was born. Growing up, my parents immersed me in the world of entrepreneurship, having opened their first business when I was a mere three months old.
In the late 1980s, I made my way to the vibrant city of London, where I landed a position as an EA at a multinational corporation. It was within the structured confines of the corporate world that I discovered my love for organizational intricacies. For two decades, I thrived in large corporations, honing my business skills.
In 2006, I embarked on my own entrepreneurial adventure, establishing my first business in Australia. The Concierge Collective, the first Personal Assistant and Personal Concierge service in Australia. I was able to swiftly established myself as a leading figure in the industry. Bolstered by this success, I went on to create three additional successful businesses.
My 20 years corporate career followed by 20 years as an entrepreneur across the globe have given me a unique perspective and an invaluable breadth of experience, which I is the driving force behind Chiefly.
Being recognized by business peers is the icing on the cake being honored as a Finalist in Australia’s prestigious Telstra Business Woman of the Year awards in 2011 and winner of the Entrepreneurs Organization’s Accelerator Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018.
I have an acute understanding of the startup and small business landscape, the nuances of elevating your role from EA and Chief of Staff and navigating global business opportunities.
Sharing my business knowledge, acquired from both the corporate realm and my own entrepreneurial endeavors, is such a privilege.
If you’d like to chat to some who really has ‘been there done that’, in a no-nonsense, empathetic, and let’s say “Aussie-style” approach, get in touch! I’d love to learn more about you.