Gail Fisher
The chief of staff is the chief communicator between executive staff and the broader organization. She streamlines the flow of information up to the CEO and disseminates strategies and policies to the employee who will carry them out.
- Determine and prioritize business strategies through employee collaboration
- Provide department and team leaders with recommendations
- Create metrics to measure and evaluate performance
- Drive efforts to improve efficiency
- Manage CEO planning and prep work for meetings and events
- Plan and coordinate meetings to increase focus and productivity
- Liaise between executive staff and multi-platform team leads
- Assists Chief Operating Officer with daily operations of the company
- Implements and manages organization-wide initiatives and programs
- Has Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Acts a leader, plans meetings, determines company needs
- Manages the time of the executive leader
- Resolves conflicts between clients, vendors, and partners
- Mediates disputes between employees before it needs to be brought to the executive leadership
- Advisor to CEO
- “Air traffic controller” for the senior team
- A communicator that links the leadership team with the broader organization
- Manages information flow
- Integrator connecting work streams
- “Honest broker and truth teller” ~Harvard Business Review
- Confidant to CEO who is unbiased by any agenda
- Contains broad overview and understand needs of all operations
- In conjunction with CEO, sets and implement policies