Would you like to:

• Save time, save money and reduce stress?
• Be focused and productive at work, and fully present with your family at home?
• Be known as someone who encourages and appreciates others?

I help individuals organize their life, manage their time, and stay connected with the most important people in their life…and I do this work by phone.

Curious how this works? Keep reading!

I was one of the first organizing consultants to begin working with clients virtually–something I started doing years ago, based on client needs that I observed over time. Here’s the back story…

When I started my business in 1995, I’d go to people’s homes and offices to help them get organized. We scheduled several working sessions that typically lasted 3-4 hours each.

Sometimes I’d travel across the country to work with a client, and we’d work together all day — often into the evening — for several days. Pictured here are before-and-after photos (shared with permission) of a client’s east coast office after one such multiple-day working marathon. I live on the west coast, so this required expensive cross-country travel.

New Discoveries

By my second year in business, I discovered that some of my clients were not maintaining the systems we had previously set up together. Several of them hired me to come back and work with them again. At this point, I realized that in addition to needing good systems in place to keep things organized, my clients also needed to change some behaviors and habits if they wanted to enjoy lasting results. They needed support over time to make new habits stick.

This is also when I was introduced to the field of coaching, which was a newly-emerging profession back in the mid-90s. Prior to this, the only coaches I’d ever heard of blew a whistle in your ear and made you do push-ups!

I was excited to learn about the value that coaching could bring to my existing work, and I registered to take some courses at the Academy for Coach Training. I completed my coursework in 1999 and became a certified coach.

Since coaches do their work by phone, geographic location became irrelevant. My clients were scattered all over North America. Over time, I learned that several clients I was coaching also needed help getting organized. I started teaching them how to set up organizing systems and simple processes while we were connected by phone and Internet —without the need for me to travel across the country. This is how my virtual consulting services began.

At first, my colleagues said that nobody could help someone get organized without working with them face-to-face. Then they saw testimonials from my happy clients I’d worked with virtually, and they wanted to learn how to do what I was doing. In 2007, I started offering a virtual online workshop series to my colleagues, called Virtually There: Developing a Thriving & Profitable Organizing Business. I still offer this virtual self-paced course today.

By 2003 I was doing all of my work virtually, combining my skills as a coach and an organizing consultant.

In 2005 I was introduced to a simple system of kindness that keeps you connected with important people in your life. I teach clients an easy way to begin each day with gratitude. As a result, huge positive shifts happen over time. To learn how expressing gratitude transformed my life, click here.

Today I call myself a Life Architect—a title that embodies the combination of my work as a coach and a consultant. Assisting clients all over the globe, I work to help people identify the “why” of their life, and then help them couple that with the “how” to create systems and structures to support that “why.” Yes, it’s organizing – but it’s much more than teaching someone how to clean up their desk.

By combining these two professions, I’m able to help my clients design unique “blueprints” that enable them to live more purposefully and productively, at home and at work. Once systems and processes are set up, the coaching provides support and accountability as new habits are formed.

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