Susan Klein
susan@positivespacepo.com
Phone/Fax: 504.366.2788
Cell: 504.388.8189

On retiring from a 22-year career in banking, I was researching possibilities for a second career when I came upon a newspaper article about a professional organizer — a new term for me in 2006. The article made reference to the National Association of Professional Organizers, or NAPO. The name intrigued me, so I went to their website to look around. It didn’t take me long to realize: “These are my people!” I’ve been organizing practically since I was a child. It has been second nature to me ever since I can remember. Deep down I knew that I had found not just a second career — I had found my calling.

From my perspective, I could see professional organizing as the natural evolution not only of my educational background (I have a B.A. in Interior Design and an M.A. in Library and Information Science), but also of the many interesting and motivating years I spent in the corporate world. Some of my proudest achievements involved taking substantial numbers of miscellaneous documents from endless boxes of papers and pulling them together into neat, user-friendly packages. The satisfaction was not so much in creating something new, but rather in making order out of disorder.

This “order out of disorder” approach is what guides me in serving my clients. Rarely does a client