You need a support person to help you manage your company’s biggest asset… your time.
Our team takes the weight off your search and connects you with an assistant who truly fits how you work.
We help leaders — like you — connect with an executive assistant to free up space in their calendars and brains.
Busy leaders frequently juggle more than they should, while also struggling to find a reliable assistant to help. Connect Assistant Resource offers a well-trained executive assistant with ongoing coaching for you both—allowing you to focus on what you do best while trusting your assistant with the details.
Meet Our Team
Valerie Riley
Partner | Business Development
Valerie is our Visionary, offering a clear picture for where the company is headed and building valuable relationships. Her passion in our business lies in innovating the industry by empowering support professionals to use their talents to the highest potential by creating a ripple effect of time for leaders and businesses.
Katie Gibbons
Partner | Operations
Our Integrator, Katie, supports our clients and our business operations with a deep understanding of both the assistant and executive perspective. Her passion in our business is creating space for visionaries in organizations to see a future with an assistant who truly supports them, integrating that vision into reality, and fostering a long-term relationship that is healthy and profitable for all.
Chelsi Olson
Partner | Lead Recruiter & Coach
Chelsi serves as Connect Assistant Resources’ Lead Matchmaker and Coach, supporting candidates and existing assistants through our process with a generous spirit and an eye for detail. Chelsi was an assistant for a number of years and has led assistant teams with compassion, strategy, and a natural ability to anticipate executives’ needs. Chelsi’s warmth and authentic approach make solving problems together fun.
You can trust Connect’s proven experience to help you find your ideal executive assistant.
We started as LifeSquire, founded by Valerie Riley in 2011 in the heart of Oklahoma City with a mission to make clients’ busy lives easier through outsourced personal assistant services. This high-end service focused on addressing both the proactive and reactive to the needs of our clients. We did this by building a unique team of employees—not contractors—trained to be outstanding assistants and empowered with tools they could use to meet any need they faced. This excellent service, paired with our innovative approach, made us a trusted name in Oklahoma City for personal assistant services.
To staff our growing team and meet the demand, we developed a powerful framework for discovering and training ideal personal assistants. By 2016, this framework was getting attention from clients and friends looking to make more permanent placements within their own business or organization. We recognized there was a great need to help business leaders find the same level of dedication and training they saw in our personal assistants. And so LifeSquire Connect was launched, bringing our firsthand experience and knowledge to placement services for teams small and large.
Beyond placing these outstanding executive assistants, we saw the need and importance of consistent training, both in onboarding and in growth. Our team again launched a unique solution, an Assistant Academy. This program was designed to coach and train support roles, focusing on essential soft skills like managing expectations, prioritizing tasks, effective communication, and setting up healthy boundaries. Assistant Academy quickly became an integral part of our placement process and was also offered a standalone coaching program for both new and existing support staff.
In 2024, driven by a vision to refine and scale our services, Valerie, Katie, and Chelsi partnered and leveraged their extensive experience from LifeSquire to create Connect Assistant Resource.
This new company draws on more than 15 years of expertise to provide a streamlined, focused approach to direct hire recruiting, placement and coaching for a variety of support positions. From Executive Assistants to Chiefs of Staff, Office Managers and Coordinators, we’re dedicated to helping leaders find the support they need to succeed.