Chief Energy Officer Certification
Become the Strategic Support Partner Every Leader Hopes to Find
The Chief Energy Officer Certification is an advanced professional certification for experienced strategic support professionals who want to move beyond checking boxes and become trusted partners who help leaders preserve oxygen, stop oxygen leaks, elevate energy, and fully live, in business and in life.
What's happening right now
The Role of a Virtual Assistant is Changing.
Here’s the cold truth we’re all feeling: assistants who do nothing more than complete tasks are being automated and outsourced to AI at a rapid rate.
The inbox triage you used to bill? A rule someone can set up in ten minutes. The research summaries, the first-draft emails, the meeting notes? All now tasks that can be outsourced.
Task execution isn't enough anymore, which leaves you wondering: how do you stand out now?
The Good News
There's Still a Layer a Tool Hasn’t Touched
And it's the most valuable thing you offer as a VA, but no one has ever formally trained you to do it.
And that is learning how to give founders back time, energy and capacity at a holistic level so that your founder can do what they do best: grow their businesses.
Imagine if you became known as the VA who could…
Know your leader is about to overcommit — before they say yes.
Read the room on a call, then follow up with the one person who went quiet.
Decide what not to bring your founder on a hard week.
Be the person trusted with the thing your founder would never put in writing.
So how do you learn to support a founder at this level?
When you get certified as a Chief Energy Officer, you learn skills that AI can’t replicate.
You become hard to replace
You're solving a problem clients can name and fear — their own burnout — instead of billing for hours of tasks.
You stop being interchangeable
The person protecting a founder's capacity is not the same hire as the person booking their travel.
You get renewed
Leaders don't let go of the person who makes their life work.
You have an answer
When a prospect asks what makes you different from the last three assistants they tried, you'll have one.
You stop running on empty
You'll apply every principle to your own business — your own oxygen leaks, your own boundaries.
The Oxygen 1st Philosophy
As a Chief Energy Officer, protecting your founder’s energy will be at the heart of all you offer.
You’ll learn how to help your founder…
.01 | Preserve Oxygen
Protect the time, energy, relationships, health, and priorities that matter most.
.02 | Stop Oxygen Leaks
Catch decision fatigue, executive overfunctioning, and poor delegation
.03 | Elevate Energy
Create capacity, presence, trust, and freedom — for your leaders, and for yourself.
Here’s what you’ll get when you join the fall cohort:
The complete recorded curriculum, self-paced
Weekly live coaching with Dot Rock
Practical implementation exercises
Downloadable templates, guides, and resources
Three months inside the Oxygen 1st Club
The optional opportunity to apply for the Oxygen 1st Agency
Official certification on completion
What You’ll Master:
The Oxygen 1st™ Method
The Spirit of Exceptional Support
Becoming an Energy Detective
The Art of Asking, Receiving & Delegating
Scaling Your Leader's Life...Without Forgetting Your Own
Business Operations & Organizational Capacity
Executive Communication
Leadership Presence
Building Trust
Boundaries & Equal Exchange of Energy
AI as Your Second Brain
Becoming Indispensable
How it runs
A complete library of recorded video modules you work through at your own pace — around client work, around your life. Then weekly live coaching with Dot, where the material stops being theory: real client situations, rehearsed hard conversations, in front of people who do what you do.
Most programs give you one or the other. The videos alone don't change how you work. The coaching alone gives you nowhere to build from.
Who it's for
Experienced Virtual Assistants, Executive Assistants, Operations Managers, Chiefs of Staff, Online Business Managers, and administrative professionals who have already hit the ceiling of task work.
This is not designed for brand-new Virtual Assistants.
Fall 2026 Certification Class Starts Soon
Don’t miss your chance to learn the skills that founders need most.
Launch Investment: $797
Please note, class size is intentionally limited so every participant receives personal coaching and feedback.