2.1
Executive Assistants
Senior EAs supporting founders and C-suite leaders who are expanding their scope from calendar stewardship into strategic preparation, briefing architecture and executive leverage.
Gated Operator Community · Professional practice
A room for the people who run the room.
An invitation-only space where high-performing Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder’s Office leads share operational intelligence, swap playbooks, solve founder-led problems and master workflows and frameworks.
Every member is reviewed and approved before joining. Free for the first 50 founding members; after 50, admission moves to a waitlist or paid membership tier.
Exhibit 1
Founding 50 cohort allocation and admission structure
18 / 50Founding seats allocated Sample
32 seatsRemaining in free founding tier
- Admission policy
- Invitation-only; every operator application is reviewed first
- Founding 1–50 tier
- Complimentary founding membership for approved operators
- Post-50 structure
- Waitlist or paid membership tier once founding seats fill
Source: COvia Gated Operator Community ledgerJoin the community
Built for practising operators moving from administrative command into strategic leverage.
We never frame executive office professionals as back-office support. The community is curated for people who act as force multipliers for founders and leadership teams.
Exhibit 2
Who the Gated Operator Community serves across the executive office
2.2
Chiefs of Staff
Operators running OKRs, board preparation, executive offsites and cross-team accountability where strategy is set but follow-through requires disciplined orchestration.
2.3
Founder’s Office Leads
Builders working directly off the founder’s desk to take unowned problems, launches and special projects from initial thesis to working operation.
2.4
Strategic Operators Globally
Practitioners in Bengaluru, Auckland and global remote teams who act as the connective tissue around leadership and want a trusted peer group doing the same work.
Source: COvia community membership criteriaGlobal membership · Bengaluru & Auckland chapters
Six practical pillars give members Monday-morning playbooks, AI workflows and early role access.
Everything inside the community is designed to be usable immediately in a demanding executive office.
Exhibit 3
What members get — six core deliverables of the Gated Operator Community
Operational intelligence
What is working right now in executive offices like yours, shared by people doing the job.
Playbooks and frameworks
Templates, workflows and operating rhythms you can use on Monday.
Founder-led problem solving
Bring a live problem; get answers from peers who have solved it.
AI workflows
Practical ways to use AI that strengthen your judgement rather than replace it.
First look at roles
Openings shortlisted by COvia are shared with members first.
The Discourse
Priority places at roundtables, fireside chats and networking evenings.
Source: COvia Gated Operator Community charterJoin the community
Roundtables, fireside chats and networking evenings turn digital connection into lasting peer trust.
Through The Discourse, community members gather in Bengaluru, Auckland and online to dissect real executive office challenges.
Exhibit 4
Gathering formats and live programming across The Discourse
Curated operator roundtables
Focused working sessions where members bring one live operating bottleneck — from board-pack workflows to AI triage — and leave with peer-tested playbooks.
Founder & operator fireside chats
Candid conversations with founders, Chiefs of Staff and senior Executive Assistants on how the partnership inside the executive office works in practice.
Peer networking evenings
Unhurried evenings in Bengaluru and Auckland designed for genuine peer connection among people who run the room every day.
Scheduled and recent Discourse sessions
View full Discourse scheduleChiefs of Staff and AI workflows
Bengaluru · Shweta Malekar
What founders actually need from the executive office
Auckland · Geetika S Nongthomba
From EA to Chief of Staff: a career spotlight
Online
Building a founder's operating rhythm
Bengaluru · Geetika S Nongthomba
Source: The Discourse programming schedule (event photography is illustrative placeholder imagery)Bengaluru · Auckland
Venue & gathering partnerships
Spaces for operator events and roundtables
COvia convenes intimate roundtables, workshops and fireside chats in Bengaluru and Auckland. If you host a boardroom, studio or member venue — or wish to enquire about a space for an upcoming operator gathering — register your enquiry below while our full Spaces specification is finalised.
Source: COvia Spaces enquiry deskBengaluru · Auckland
Next step for operators & hiring leaders
Request your seat in the Founding 50 operator cohort.
Join practising Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder’s Office leaders — or book a conversation if you are hiring for your executive office.