Welcome to IAAP - Las Positas The IAAP® offers resources to help administrative professionals enhance their skills and become more effective contributors to their employers.

About the IAAP

The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) is a not-for-profit professional association with approximately 40,000 members and affiliates and nearly 600 chapters worldwide.

The Las Positas Chapter serves the greater Tri-Valley region (Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Livermore) and has approximately 25 members.

IAAP works in partnership with employers to promote professional excellence.

The IAAP mission is to be the acknowledged, recognized leader of administrative professionals and to enhance their individual and collective value, image, competence, and influence.

IAAP's purpose is to provide information, education, and training and to set standards of excellence recognized by the business community on a global perspective.

IAAP's objectives are to elevate the standards of all administrative professionals and to promote their working relationships with management through continuing education, authorized programs, and publications.

IAAP's vision is to inspire and equip all administrative professionals to attain excellence.

	What is an Administrative Professional? . “An office professional shall be defined as an executive assistant who possesses a mastery of office skills, demonstrates the ability to assume responsibility without direct supervision, exercises initiative and judgment, and makes decisions within the scope of assigned authority.”