We are proud to introduce Velström Vallner Tohver’s team member, the interim assistant Anne-Katrin Kallaste. She will also be a mentor or an advisor for your company’s administrative team, if necessary.
Anne has assisted high-level executives of large enterprises for 14 years:
- G4S: Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Supervisory Council, 7 years
- Estonian Energy: Personal Assistant to the Chairman of Management Board, 7 years
Anne is a beaming and balanced person with an over-developed sense of duty. Through Velström Vallner Tohver she can help your company in two ways:
Counselling and mentorship: raising the quality of support services and the work of assistants
No one is born a leader, but is grown into one. Anne supports people with the right prerequisites in their development. Real life situations:
- the work of the executive’s assistant or administrative team is not meeting the expectations. Or the opposite: they have already reached them and now require a worthy partner for acquiring new skills – the masters need to learn every day!
- external vision and experience is needed in order to develop and implement support service solutions
- support is needed to get accustomed to the changes taking place in the company, its structure or the team.
Interim assistant
Anne can be “rented” as an interim assistant for high responsibility tasks and/or for agreed upon periods.
If every now and then you need an experienced assistant to the board or to the executive to take care of special tasks, heavyweight meetings, or to stand in for the gap periods of hiring new assistants, etc, we will find a solution.
Anne is fluent in Estonian, English, Russian and Finnish.
Recommendations from executives who have worked with Anne:
Gunnar Okk:
Vice President / Nordic Investment Bank
“Only a handful of personal assistants with solely Estonian work experience know and understand what makes them stand apart from a secretary or a manager’s assistant – Anne is one of them. It’s not only about professional work skills, speed and loyalty. Anne can also understand the background of a high-level executive’s everyday problems and sense the bigger picture around them. Due to her unique experience Anne has developed a higher than average stress tolerance and has successfully also worked in 24/7 conditions. During those nearly seven years Anne also provided me with great counsel in rather difficult practical situations.”
Lauri Veikko Saloranta:
Head of Board / G4S Ltd.
“Anne-Katrin Kallaste committed herself fully to the assignment as the Assistant for Chief Executive. She performed at her duties with the passion that everyone was attracted around her to get work done. She is the top performer not only in routines but organizing Gala Dinner for 600 employers or getting my country managers to change their fully booked calendars to have the meeting next morning at 08.00. Having it all organized her sweet but firm way was her way to get things done. Good is not enough, you have to be better, and she sure was and is.
I highly recommend her as top managers assistant or the trainer for one.”
If you have ideas or questions on how Anne could develop the front line or the back rooms of your company, get in touch and let’s take it from there.
