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A 10-week live transformation programme for Executive Assistants and senior support professionals who want to master Microsoft 365, AI and automation, and use them to redesign how work gets done.
This is not a standard Microsoft course.
It is a practical, workflow-led programme delivered by Paul Pennant, Microsoft MVP in Microsoft 365 and Copilot, former Executive Assistant and founder of Today’s PA.
You will learn how the Microsoft 365 ecosystem works, how the tools connect, and how to use them to improve real workflows for you, your executive and your organisation.
By the end of the programme, you will not just know more about Microsoft 365. You will know how to use it as a connected productivity and automation system.
You will be able to support your leader faster, more safely, more accurately and more strategically.
🔸 Manual admin
🔸 Disconnected tools
🔸 Repeated follow-up
🔸 AI uncertainty
🔸 Work held together by memory
🔸 Connected workflows
🔸 Better use of Microsoft 365
🔸 Automation where it matters
🔸 Safer AI decisions
🔸 Strategic support for leaders
Most Executive Assistants are not short of effort.
They are working inside systems that were never properly designed.
Requests arrive by email, chat, forms, meetings and conversations. Files sit in different places. Actions are tracked manually. Follow-up depends on memory. Information is copied from one tool into another. AI feels important, but it is not always clear where it fits or what is safe to use.
The result is familiar:
🔸 Too much manual admin
🔸 Too much duplication
🔸 Too many disconnected tools
🔸 Too much pressure on the EA to hold everything together
The Executive Assistant Productivity Architect Programme helps you change that.
You will learn how to look at your work differently, audit your current processes, spot friction, and use Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI and automation to design better ways of working.
Most people use Microsoft 365 as separate apps.
Outlook for email. Teams for messages. SharePoint for files. Forms for requests. Excel for tracking. Power Automate for automation. Copilot for AI.
The real value comes when you understand how those tools connect.
That is what this programme teaches.
You will learn what each tool can do, how the tools work together, and which tool is best for each job. You will also learn how to think about permissions, guardrails, workflow risk and safe AI use, so you can make better decisions before changing a process.
This is Microsoft 365 mastery for the modern EA.
AI is changing the assistant role.
The risk is not simply that AI replaces assistants. The bigger risk is that assistants who understand Microsoft 365, AI and automation become far more valuable than those who do not.
This programme helps you move from AI anxiety to AI leadership.
You will learn how to advise your executive on practical AI opportunities, sensible automation ideas, safe use of Copilot, permissions, information access and organisational guardrails.
That makes you more than a support professional.
It makes you a trusted adviser on how work should happen.
You will learn how to improve workflows using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including:
🔸 Microsoft 365 Groups
🔸 SharePoint
🔸 Outlook
🔸 Teams
🔸 Forms
🔸 Copilot Chat
🔸 Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps
🔸 Power Automate
🔸 Excel PivotTables
🔸 Excel Power Query
🔸 Microsoft Power Apps basics
🔸 Agents
The programme is not taught as a disconnected tour of software features.
It is taught through workflows, examples, practical exercises and implementation.
You will see how Microsoft 365 can help you create cleaner intake processes, better communication flow, stronger file structures, smarter meeting follow-up, more accurate tracking, clearer reporting, safer AI habits and reduced manual effort.
You will leave with practical capability you can apply immediately in your role.
🔸 Understand Microsoft 365 as a connected ecosystem, not a list of separate apps
🔸 Choose the right Microsoft tool for the job
🔸 Audit your current workflows and identify where time, accuracy or control is being lost
🔸 Redesign everyday EA processes using Microsoft 365, AI and automation
🔸 Build more structured workflows across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Forms, Excel and Power Automate
🔸 Use Copilot and AI more safely and strategically
🔸 Think through permissions, guardrails and information access before applying AI or automation
🔸 Advise your executive on practical AI and automation opportunities
🔸 Demonstrate a completed workflow improvement as part of your final project
The programme follows a clear transformation journey, but the exact order of topics may flex by cohort so the learning can respond to the group, Microsoft updates and practical implementation needs.
Across the 10 weeks, you will move through five stages.
You will analyse your role, your recurring tasks, your executive’s needs and the areas where work is manual, duplicated, unclear or risky.
You will learn the capabilities of the key Microsoft tools and how they connect across real EA workflows.
You will use templates, examples and guided exercises to identify where Microsoft 365, AI or automation can improve the way work moves.
You will get hands-on during sessions and between sessions, using sample workflows and your own role context to build real improvements.
You will demonstrate one completed workflow improvement, showing the old process, the new process, the tools used and the value created.
This gives you structure without forcing every cohort into a rigid week-by-week topic order.
This programme is designed for real change, not passive attendance.
Each session combines expert teaching with hands-on practice. You will learn the concepts, see practical workflow examples, and then start applying the ideas during the session.
That matters because Microsoft 365 mastery does not come from watching demonstrations alone.
It comes from doing the work, asking better questions, testing ideas, building confidence and seeing how the tools can solve real problems.
This is not a certificate for attendance.
To graduate, you must complete a Productivity Architecture Project.
This is one working Microsoft 365 workflow improvement that shows you can apply what you have learned.
Your project should demonstrate:
🔸 The old process
🔸 The problem or friction
🔸 The redesigned workflow
🔸 The Microsoft tools used
🔸 The AI, automation or workflow improvement applied
🔸 The time saved, risk reduced or value created
🔸 The guardrails, permissions or safety considerations
Where possible, your project should be based on your real role. If your organisation restricts what you can build or share, you may use a sample scenario provided during the programme.
You can submit your project privately through either a short live demonstration or screenshot evidence with supporting explanation.
Every learner receives a printed EAPA Implementation Playbook.
This is your working guide throughout the programme.
It includes frameworks, workflow templates, audit prompts, implementation exercises, AI guardrails and practical examples to help you apply the learning to your own role.
It is designed to be used during the live sessions, between sessions and after the programme as you continue refining your workflows.
You will receive access to more than 100 workflow templates and examples across the Microsoft tools covered in the programme.
These are designed to help you see what is possible and give you practical starting points you can copy, adapt and apply.
The templates will help you think through workflows such as:
🔸 Request intake
🔸 Meeting preparation
🔸 Meeting follow-up
🔸 Document management
🔸 Executive briefings
🔸 Stakeholder updates
🔸 Approvals
🔸 Tracking
🔸 Reporting
🔸 Reminders
🔸 Risk reduction
🔸 AI-assisted productivity
🔸 Automation opportunities
You do not have to start from a blank page.
You will have practical models to work from.
Learners receive exclusive access to Ask Paul for 12 months.
Ask Paul is a specialist AI support chatbot built from Paul Pennant’s Microsoft 365, AI, automation and productivity resources.
It gives you on-demand support during the programme and after it ends.
You can use Ask Paul to explore questions such as:
🔸 Which Microsoft tool should I use for this workflow?
🔸 How could I improve this process?
🔸 Where could automation help?
🔸 What should I consider before using Copilot here?
🔸 What permissions or guardrails might matter?
🔸 How could I make this workflow easier, faster, safer or more accurate?
Ask Paul is only available to EAPA learners.
It gives you continued access to Paul’s thinking, frameworks and practical guidance long after the live sessions finish.
You will join a private EAPA Microsoft Teams community.
This is where learners can ask questions, share progress, discuss workflow ideas and receive support during the programme.
Paul will be active in the group and answer questions directly.
After the programme, the Teams group becomes an alumni community across cohorts, helping learners stay connected, supported and up to date.
Access is included for 12 months.
Microsoft 365, Copilot and AI are changing quickly.
That is why EAPA does not end when the final live session finishes.
For 12 months, you will receive important Microsoft 365, Copilot and AI updates through the private Teams community, Ask Paul and email.
This helps you keep improving as the tools develop, rather than leaving the programme with knowledge that quickly becomes outdated.
All live sessions are recorded.
You will receive 12 months of access to the recordings, so you can catch up if you miss a session or revisit the content when implementing your workflows later.
Live sessions take place on Wednesdays.
Time: 1:00pm to 4:30pm GMT | 8:00am to 11:30am ET
7, 14, 21 and 28 October 2026
4, 18 and 25 November 2026
2 and 9 December 2026
13 January 2027
The structure gives you time between sessions to apply, test and refine what you are learning.
Expert teaching with hands-on implementation throughout the programme.
Your guide for audits, workflow design, AI guardrails and practical application.
Practical starting points you can copy, adapt and apply to your own role.
Exclusive AI support built from Paul’s Microsoft 365, AI, automation and productivity resources.
Private cohort and alumni support, with Paul answering questions directly.
Important updates shared through Teams, Ask Paul and email so you stay current as the tools evolve.
Revisit the live sessions when you need to catch up, review or implement.
Graduate by proving one completed Microsoft 365 workflow improvement through a private demo or screenshot evidence.
This programme is for:
🔸 Executive Assistants
🔸 Personal Assistants
🔸 Senior EAs
🔸 Chiefs of Staff
🔸 Business Support Managers
🔸 Office professionals who want to modernise how they work
You do not need to be an advanced Microsoft user before joining.
What matters is that you are willing to learn, change and apply the tools properly.
Beginners will be supported. More advanced learners will be stretched through deeper workflow examples, implementation challenges and project work.
This programme is not for passive learners.
It is not for people who only want to watch demonstrations.
It is not for people looking for a simple certificate without applying the learning.
EAPA is for professionals who want to build real capability and prove they can use Microsoft 365, AI and automation to improve work.
Paul Pennant is a Microsoft MVP in Microsoft 365 and Copilot, founder of Today’s PA and a former Executive Assistant.
He has spent more than 20 years helping assistants and office professionals master Microsoft tools and improve the way they work.
As an MVP, Paul is part of a recognised global community of Microsoft experts and regularly contributes insight and feedback on Microsoft products.
That means this programme is not generic training.
It is practical Microsoft 365 transformation delivered by someone who understands both the technology and the pressure of the EA role.
EAPA helps organisations get more value from Microsoft 365 by developing support professionals who can improve workflows, reduce manual work and use AI more safely.
The return is not only time saved.
It is also:
🔸 Better executive support
🔸 Fewer manual handoffs
🔸 Clearer information flow
🔸 Stronger follow-through
🔸 Reduced duplication
🔸 Better use of existing Microsoft licences
🔸 More confident AI and automation adoption
🔸 Support professionals who can advise leaders, not just react to them
This programme helps turn Microsoft 365 from a set of underused tools into a practical productivity ecosystem.
If you are ready to stop juggling disconnected tools and start designing smarter ways of working, the next step is to secure your place.
Places are limited to maintain quality, support and accountability.
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Standard price: £2,995
Non-profit price: £2,495
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