Admin Excel

Make the Leap into Operations and Leadership

AdminExcel Course

Make the Leap into Operations and Leadership

A focused program for administrative professionals who are ready to transition into operations, project management, or leadership roles — and who know their experience is worth more than their current title suggests.

Why this program

Everything You Need to Make the Leap

This isn’t a course about feeling better about your current role. It’s a practical transition program that gives you the tools, the language, and the strategy to move into the operations or leadership role you’re ready for.

Dismantle the Beliefs

Identify and replace the specific limiting beliefs that keep admin professionals from pursuing the careers their capabilities already justify.

Translate Your Experience

Learn to reframe everything you’ve built in your admin career in the language that hiring managers in operations and leadership actually recognize.

Choose Your Target Track

Get clear on exactly which role is right for you — Chief of Staff, Operations Manager, Project Manager, or Team Lead — and build your case for it.

Think Like an Ops Leader

Develop the organizational and systems-level thinking that defines every successful operations and leadership professional.

Build Your Transition Network

Connect with people who’ve made the same leap, build relationships in your target domain, and find the advocates who open the right doors.

Position for the Leap

Rebuild your resume, LinkedIn, and interview responses so decision-makers in your target role immediately see the fit.

Your Path to Excellence

Module 1: The Leap Begins
Module 1

The Leap Begins: Mindset, Identity & Your Launchpad

Your admin experience is already career capital. This module helps you see what you built, dismantle the beliefs holding you back, and build the identity and brand of the professional you are becoming.

  • Launchpad leadership: Your admin experience is already career capital
  • The resilient leaper: Staying grounded when reaching
  • Branding for the leap: What your next employer needs to see
  • The admin-to-ops translation: Speaking the language of your target role
  • Crafting your transition purpose statement
  • The beliefs that keep you in your current title
  • From admin professional to operations leader: Closing the gap
Module 2

Know Your Value: Strengths That Travel With You

Understand your worker type, map your strengths, and build a transition value proposition that makes your case to hiring managers in operations and leadership – even if they have never seen your title before.

  • Your worker type and the ops/leadership roles where you will thrive
  • The Love/Great Matrix: Designing your ideal ops/leadership role
  • Your value proposition for the transition: What you bring to a new domain
  • Speaking up as a future ops leader
  • Building the confidence to make the leap
  • Turning your strengths into your transition strategy
  • Case study: Choosing the right transition, not just any opportunity
Module 3

Think Like Operations: Strategy, Vision & Readiness

Learn to see your organization the way ops and leadership professionals see it. Choose your target track, build the skills it requires, and demonstrate readiness before you have the title.

  • Thinking like an ops leader: What your organization actually needs
  • Your current role as an ops portfolio: Making your contributions visible
  • Choosing your target track: Chief of Staff, Ops Manager, PM, or Team Lead
  • Case study: Sheila – Ops thinking creates new possibilities
  • Building the skills your target track requires
  • Leading before you have the title: Demonstrating transition readiness
  • When the path forward is not clear: Navigating ambiguity
  • Just ask: How proactive conversations accelerate your transition
Module 4

Making the Leap: The Mechanics of Career Change

Put it all into motion with the tactical tools of career transition: communication that signals your level, relationships that open doors, negotiation that reflects your worth, and positioning materials that make your case.

  • Communicating like the leader you are becoming
  • The network that carries you forward
  • Negotiating compensation for a role change
  • The executive presence that earns you the interview
  • Case study: Creativity, mentorship, and choosing your own path
  • Positioning for the leap: Resume, LinkedIn, and interview preparation
  • Your 90-day transition plan: From intention to action
  • Sustaining your momentum through the transition

What Our Participants Are Saying About AdminExcel

really love this platform.

 

A lot of the content felt very self-driven, reflective, and uplifting—which I personally appreciated and think they would too.

What stood out to me most was how much the experience encourages you to take ownership of your own growth and career path. It gives a real sense of control and confidence, which feels both motivating and empowering.

~ Stephenie, Director of HR

Very informative!

 

I really like the videos at the beginning of each module. They provide a quick overview of what’s coming and are a nice break from the text. I also found the activities before the journal to be very useful and liked the variety they add to the course.

~ Alli, HR Manager

I loved everything about the course!

 

The Case Study gave me a lot of thoughts and sounded like what I went through at my last job. I love building and strategizing. I feel there’s not many courses out there that help admins practice and build up to the next steps. I loved everything about the course.

~ Fanny, Executive Assistant

Choose Your Path

Every plan includes our full curriculum. Select the level of support and coaching that's right for you.

Essential

Self-paced learning with core curriculum access

$97/Lifetime Access
 
  • Full course curriculum
  • Downloadable workbooks & templates
  • Private community access (coming soon)
  • Email support

Professional

Enhanced learning with live coaching and extras

$197/Lifetime Access
 
  • Everything in Essential
  • 2 live group coaching sessions
  • Career roadmap workbook
  • Resume & LinkedIn review
 
 

Executive

Premium experience with 1-on-1 coaching

 
$497/Lifetime Access
 
  • Everything in Professional
  • 2 private coaching sessions
  • Personalized career strategy
  • Executive presence assessment

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  • Customized workshop proposal. Pricing starts at $500

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