Linda McFarland

Linda McFarland is passionate about the administrative career and has extensive experience supporting CEOs and C-Level executives. In 2008, Linda founded Linda McFarland Consulting (also Ascend2Success), a consulting company that provides training and forums for assistants. She is the author of the books, The Wizard Behind the CEO: Enchanted stories from the assistant with the magic WAND,and co-author of “Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, with a Gun: True Stories of Silicon Valley CEO Assistants.” Linda is past chair and advisory board member for the Admin Awards in Silicon Valley, assisted in the development and was master instructor and guest lecturer for the first certificate program for administrative professionals with UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley (2005-2010). Linda also was a co-founder in Admin-to-Admin and PlanetAdmin as well as a certified trainer for The Star Achievement Program®. Linda is married with children and grandchildren.