Chela is a former Executive Assistant who transitioned into a career as a Virtual Assistant in 2001. Since 2013, she has also been coaching and mentoring others on how to start and successfully run their own virtual assistant business. She is the author of Become a More Confident Virtual Assistant and Noted! Business Lessons Learned from Twenty-Two Years of Virtual Assistance.

The creator of Chela's BizDev Binder for Virtual Assistants, Chela writes about the industry in her blog at AskChela.com.