Cohorts are small, with fewer than 15 employees across the university selected for each program. Each participant is paired with a senior administrative professional as a mentor, and the group meets at various Hopkins locations in the Baltimore area.
“The ADP program honestly changed my life. It opened my eyes to the fact that I have a very special gift and talent. Without the instructors and my cohort, I wouldn’t have had the self confidence to seek my dream role in SOM. The ADP helped me polish my skills and reach for a brighter future within JHU.”
To qualify, you’ll need a paragraph of support from your manager and must also:
Nominations for 2022 are now closed.
Please email us with any questions.
In addition to ADP, JHU offers a host of in-person and online courses, ebooks, and videos that can help you develop the skills you need to advance your administrative career. Browse our courses and resources.
You also can hear directly from ADP mentors about highly valued skills required of an executive assistant:
Problem Solving
Keeping Things Moving
Gatekeeping
Redirection
Keeping Them on Time
Managing Stress
The “Know-it-All”
Wellness
Emotional Intelligence
“I’d become stagnant and only looked for something else [at Hopkins] if something upset me where I was,” says Sims, currently executive assistant to Ellen MacKenzie, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Those moves, she says, were usually lateral.
But when JHU launched a pilot program in 2018 to develop talent already at the university, someone who knew what Sims was capable of nominated her for the inaugural course. Eligible were current employees throughout the university already working as administrative assistants.