About Lisa…

Lisa MontanaroLisa Montanaro is the owner of LM Organizing Solutions, LLC, a professional services firm offering organizing, business and life coaching, and motivational speaking to individuals and organizations. Lisa is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and its Golden Circle, reserved for organizers that have been in business for 5 years or more. Lisa is also an inaugural Certified Professional Organizer© (CPO), an achievement that only a small percentage of organizing experts have achieved.

LMOSCircleLMOS empowers people and organizations to DECIDE™ to be Organized, a unique 6-step organizing process created by Lisa, based on her many years of experience organizing and coaching clients. Through the implementation of the DECIDE™ approach, clients create systems designed to achieve results at home, at work, and in life. What sets Lisa apart from others in her field is her varied background and keen intuition. Professional organizing, coaching, and speaking allow Lisa to combine her lifelong passion for creating order with her skills gained as a lawyer, educator, mediator, and performer. Considered by her clients to be an “intellectual organizer and problem-solver,” Lisa is skillful at asking questions in a non-judgmental manner that help people and organizations find the answers to create a system tailored to their individual needs.

In addition to her hands-on work with clients, Lisa is a skilled motivational speaker. Lisa is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), the premiere organization for professional speakers. Her presentations at national conferences, local forums, and in numerous workplace settings are informative, interactive, and entertaining. Lisa has been interviewed by radio hosts, and is a frequent guest expert for national teleclasses and webinars. Indeed, Lisa was ranked the number 1 speaker of the 2008 NAPO Conference by attendees, sharing the spotlight with such notable speakers as Peter Walsh of TLC’s Clean Sweep and the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Hellen Buttigieg of Neat.

Lisa is the author of The Ultimate Life Organizer: An Interactive Guide to a Simpler, Less Stressful & More Organized Life, published by Peter Pauper Press.

About the DECIDE to be Organized Blog

The purpose of the DECIDE™ to be Organized blog is to motivate, inspire and empower success-minded individuals and busy professionals to achieve results at home, at work, and in life. The blog is a great clearing-house for me to share ideas, tips, information, expertise, and musings as I draw upon my experience as an organizer, business & life coach, and speaker (as well as my background as an attorney!). Hopefully, it will prove to be a valuable source of information to you, along with a little entertainment at times. So sit back, relax, get a cup of coffee (or tea!) and come along for the ride.