About Louise Lopez Consulting

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At Louise Lopez Consulting, our mission is to empower mission-driven organizations and administrative professionals to reach their fullest potential. Through our core offerings—Strategic Event Design, tailored corporate programs, and personalized coaching focused on career growth, personal well-being, and achieving a healthy work-life balance. We are committed to providing strategies and support that unlock lasting success, whether we’re enhancing organizational impact or guiding individuals through career transitions.

Driven by a passion to empower mission-driven organizations and administrative professionals to reach their fullest potential, I founded Louise Lopez Consulting to offer the support and guidance I once needed throughout my own career journey. Our firm provides Strategic Event Design, tailored corporate programs, and individual coaching focused on career advancement, personal well-being, and work-life balance—ensuring both careers and organizations are future-proofed for success. 

I stumbled into what would become a decades long administrative professional career during my senior year in college. Having been scouted by a local attorney while interning in the victim witness unit at the county prosecutor’s office. During my time at the law office, I would sharpen my analytical and reasoning skills, develop my strategic and scenario planning abilities, and learn how to think through scenarios to potential outcomes. 

I didn’t know it at the time, but that experience and the skills I acquired, would launch a career that would take me around the world. Meeting amazing people, experiencing cultures, forming career spanning relationships. I would have a front row seat in the room where decisions are made at the highest levels in multiple industries. Supporting c-suites of global organizations like Guardian Life Insurance Company and the Rockefeller Foundation, and many non-profits in the areas of human resources, communications, and finance. 

As my career progressed, I settled more comfortably into the c-suite environment, where I made real-time decisions on behalf of the leaders of these fast-paced global organizations.

Eventually I would serve as a strategist, advisor, and assistant to some of the world’s most influential leaders, including the President of The Rockefeller Foundation and Resolve to Save Lives, with combined assets of over $4 billion and impact from North America to Europe to Asia.

For a dozen years at The Rockefeller Foundation, during President Judith Rodin’s tenure, I was a trusted liaison and thought partner, managing the president’s operations, relationships, communications, events, professional profile activities, and non-public initiatives. Utilizing my extensive knowledge of cultural and social etiquette, along with diplomatic protocol, I played a critical role in engaging with the foundation’s board of trustees and in advancing the organization’s programmatic mission and brand, as a voice of the president.

Returning to the corporate sector, I joined Guardian Life as a strategist in the office of CEO Deanna Mulligan where I had an opportunity to engage on behalf of the CEO with high level internal and external relationships to align the CEO’s priorities with the new corporate narrative. Following Ms. Mulligan’s retirement, I became part of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Social Governance teams at Guardian. I brought a broad experience in philanthropy and honed skills in storytelling, to contribute to a more inclusive corporate environment especially for people of color and the LGBTQ+ community through the expansion of the internal inclusion and diversity program and external social awareness platforms.

I love the art as well as the craft of the administrative profession. I would not trade a single moment, not even the rough spots—of which there were many. My experience is hard-won and the tools and techniques I’ve developed for Louise Lopez Consulting are the result of those moments that impacted me the most.  All experiences, the good and the bad, are shaped by our own approach to challenges—they are learning moments, each and every one.

During my career I was painfully aware of: the lack of mentoring and lack of career guidance for my profession. I had only my own instincts to rely on to find a way forward on my career path. A forward momentum that was sometimes stifled because I was pigeonholed by my title, or the talents and experience I had gained over the years were not recognized.

Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff, Operations Managers, Project Coordinators, and the many other job titles that make up the administrative professionals’ universe are the backbone of an organization. Yet, despite shouldering such responsibility, there is a lack of guidance and support specifically tailored to administrative professionals, especially during career transitions. What are the clear career paths? Why isn’t there anyone outlining the options?  Why are we not being fully valued for the experience we bring to the table? Why is it so hard for others to look past the titles and instead see the skills? There is no substitute for the skills learned through experience. 

My title, for most of my career, was executive assistant. And it was nearly impossible to get recruiters or potential employers to see me outside of that box. It’s very easy to become a victim of your own success. Administrative professional is a career choice not just a job. Strategic thought, logistical coordination, vendor management, project management, presentation skills, executive advisory, personal legacy branding, the art of communication, negotiation, tact, discretion, and reading people are just a few of the skills I have honed over the years. Yet, while moving through my career, those willing to look beyond the title and value the skills were few and far between. The skills were not speaking loud enough on my behalf. 

Often, we are not even in the room when decisions are being made about the value of an administrative professional to an organization. 

My career experiences helped to create a well-rounded open-minded empathetic individual who is very much aware of others’ needs and goals. With a desire to help people reach their own goals and realize their own potential, I want to provide the guidance I wish had been there for me. 

I am your wingwoman, navigating your career with you. Starting a new position, seeking a promotion, changing industry sectors, changing careers, returning to work post-break, planning retirement, finding your role in an organizational downsizing. Been there. Done that. Here’s how you can cut a path that’s right for you.