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Jodie Mears

Jodie Mears is a C-Suite Executive Assistant with over 23 years of experience supporting senior leaders across aviation, energy, infrastructure and digital sectors. She currently partners with executive leadership at Bentley Systems, working across governance, operations and strategic alignment to strengthen decision-making and organisational performance.

Inside organisations, she strengthens leadership performance. Outside them, she strengthens the profession.

Jodie is a regular speaker at industry conferences, leadership events and corporate programmes, where she addresses strategic visibility, executive partnership and the future of the administrative profession. Her perspective is grounded in current practice. She remains in role, working directly with senior leaders, which informs her commercially aware and practical approach.

She runs The Assist Circle, a global professional community for assistants, and publishes two newsletters: The Assist List on LinkedIn and The Assistant’s Edge on Substack. In 2025, she was named one of the Top 60 Digital Women to Watch and was a finalist for Digital Woman of the Year.

Her professional philosophy is simple: Network. Learn. Grow.