Ep4: Enabling People to Succeed

In this episode of The EA Campus Ep4: Enabling People to Succeed, host Nicky Christmas sits down with Tina Murphy, Head of the CEO Office at Babbel, to uncover what it truly means to be an Executive Assistant operating at the highest strategic level. Tina’s journey, explored in The EA Campus Ep4: Enabling People to Succeed, takes us from her early career in branding and communications in India and Australia to her current role leading executive operations in Berlin.

What you’ll learn in Ep4

Listeners of The EA Campus Ep4: Enabling People to Succeed will gain insight into expanding executive bandwidth, keeping leaders accountable, and evolving beyond the traditional “gatekeeper” mindset. Tina shares the importance of alignment meetings, managing executive energy, and balancing competing priorities in a high-growth tech company.

Beyond her professional role, The EA Campus Ep4: Enabling People to Succeed highlights Tina’s personal journey—her reflections on living and working abroad, building resilience through running 16K a day, and how personal development fuels professional success. With her passion for education, leadership, and fostering collaboration across teams, she shows how assistants can shape culture from behind the scenes.

Finally, in The EA Campus Ep4: Enabling People to Succeed, Tina pays tribute to her earliest inspiration—her mother, also a career Executive Assistant—showing how legacy, values, and mindset can influence a fulfilling EA career.

Whether you’re an EA aiming to elevate your role, or a leader seeking to understand the power of true business partnership, this episode provides practical strategies, career-shaping insights, and motivation to lead with impact.