For 10 years, Lelia was a virtual assistant to Alan November before the term "virtual assistant" existed. During that time, they created the first Renaissance Learning summer conference at Roger Williams College, which developed into the conference at Regis College and the Newton Marriott. By the time the BLC conference moved to Boston, Donna Lang became Alan's assistant. Thanks to Alan, Lelia was the Massachusetts Computer Using Educators' administrative assistant for 22 years.