Background
Janine Adams, founder of Peace of Mind Organizing LLC, has had a lifelong fascination with organizing. She enjoys helping people regain control of their lives through the process of getting rid of clutter and creating customized systems to maintain order. Janine recognizes that different people process information and approach space differently and she gets to know and understand her clients so that she can find organizational systems that work best for them. She doesn’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to organizing.
Since starting her business in 2005, Janine has invested a great deal of time and money in training. She has taken classes through the National Association of Professional Organizers and the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, as well as four in-person training seminars and one nine-week coaching teleclass. In addition, she has attended three national NAPO conferences, two regional NAPO conferences, and four NSGCD conferences. (See her Credentials page for detailed information on the training she’s received.)
Janine is the current president of the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers, and has served on the board since its inception, first as Membership Director, then as Vice President, then President. She was a charter member of the chapter.
Prior to becoming an organizing consultant, Janine was a successful freelance writer, specializing in writing about pets. The author of seven books and contributor to four others (including Chicken Soup for the Cat and Dog Lover’s Soul), Janine has a great deal of practical experience in organizing large quantities of information.
In a previous job working on an international project for a Washington, DC-based non-profit group, Janine organized an international conference held at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. She made the travel arrangements for all fifteen participants, from eleven countries, and, while in Kenya, handled all the conference arrangements and in-country travel logistics. And this was before the Internet!
While she has an organized mind and loves setting up systems (especially for other people!), Janine struggles with disorder in her own life. She’s succeeded in finding organizational systems that work for her, but she knows how life can get in the way of maintaining systems and keeping clutter at bay. She’s very familiar with the suffocating feeling that excess clutter can create and the pleasure of gazing at a neat desk or room. And she knows how satisfying it is to maintain newly created order. Janine enjoys helping people achieve that satisfaction. Since she’s been through it herself, she never judges anyone else’s cluttered life.