Gerrit’s mission is simple: To continuously find ways and means to get things done easier and faster, and share this with as many people as possible so they can enjoy life and living more.

So it is no surprise that, after teaching maths and physics in high school, and working in the chemical industry for 12 years, he has rubbed shoulders and established working relationships with some of the leading minds in personal development, performance and productivity.

After two years running a SMI (Success Motivation International) franchise, he was an integral part of the South African franchise for the work of Stephen R Covey and facilitated The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People as well as the Covey time management and leadership development workshops.

The work of the late Dr Jerry L Fletcher (Paradoxical Thinking: How to profit from your contradictions) attracted him and has provided a toolset for improving the performance of individuals and teams. Jerry visited Gerrit in South Africa and together they facilitated public and in-house programmes on developing an individual’s unique Pattern of High Performance, i.e. to establish what people do when they do their best work.

Gerrit visited David Allen (author of Getting Things Done) in the USA in 2001, attended his workshops and received training in helping people to manage their workflow more efficiently.

Barbara Hemphill’s contribution to improving productivity was next on his development list, and in January 2006 he visited the USA with his colleague Richard de Villiers to attend the PTAC training programme in San Diego.

Gerrit has successfully integrated best practices of working and living more productively in his approach to assisting his clients (mostly business owners and corporate executives).

Cindy Swan and her associates brings relief to clients who are tired of clutter by working in an individual or group arrangement to help them become more focused on what’s important or how to improve and achieve their bottom line!

Want to learn how to eliminate clutter, save time, and project a professional image, which in turn can allow you to earn more money, and have a better quality of life with less stress?

Need a fresh start to increase your productivity and lead to more control over your time, space and activities?

BIPO’s provides stress reduction solutions to corporate clients, small businesses, homes and home based offices. From the desktop, storeroom, boardroom, and cellar to attic, BIPO will provide you with structure, systems, suggestions, choices and methods to help you gain the freedom needed to pursue your professional, personal and financial goals. We provide encouragement and support tailored to fit your needs, priorities, and lifestyles. Disorganization is not a moral issue; hence, we at BIPO are never judgmental about your personal organizational needs.

The Wall Street Journal reports, “the average executive loses 6 weeks per year retrieving misplaced information from messy desks and files.” Therefore, on that account, you are not alone! BIPO has won a proposal bid to install a central filing system for the Bermuda Department of Airport Operations and of all the other programs on the market, has chosen The Paper Tiger software to implement this vast system.

Cindy Swan, Managing Director of BIPO, is a Professional Organizer with over 20 years of administrative managerial experience and an active member of the National Association of Professional Organizers and NAPO’s referral representative for Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Swan is also a member of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce; the BI-monthly ‘getting organised’ columnist at the Royal Gazette newspaper; a past board member of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce - Jamaica and the International Women Club. She is presently co-authoring an ‘organising’ book and lives in Bermuda with her husband Senator Kim Swan and her children Zindzi, Mailinn and Michael.

Dawn Martin, Principal of Simply in Place, is a lawyer, a professional mediator and a Paper Tiger Authorized Consultant. As founder and managing partner of a law firm and a mediation practice for a total of 19 years, wife and mother of three, home manager, bookeeper, frequent international business traveler, sister, daughter, friend…she has had her fair share of struggles in her quest to achieve simplicity, order and balance.

Simply in Place was born of Dawn’s desire to share lessons learned over the years, some by trial and error and others with the generous support and insights of widely recognized experts in the fields of productivity and professional organizing. In addition to her organizing consulting work, she provides mediation and conflict management consulting in the United States, Latin America and Africa. She continues to manage a practice specializing in family, business and organizational conflict resolution.

Dawn began her conflict resolution work in 1979 and received her law degree in 1986 from the Catholic University of America. She speaks Spanish fluently.

Joan Kuenhold is a professional organizer, productivity consultant, and executive coach with more than 25 years of corporate experience. An independent consultant since 2001, Joan specializes in office needs assessments, workflow analysis, and productivity training.

Joan’s company, Creative Office Solutions, provides a business administration quick start for new companies and helps existing companies streamline their processes. Creative Office Solutions focuses on both office layout and procedures integrating the two to provide productive work environments for clients. Joan is a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor™, adding another dimension to the total office solutions. With a hands-on approach, Joan not only creates viable solutions and answers to common office problems, but implements them as well.

A Paper Tiger Authorized Consultant™ speaker and trainer, Joan offers ways for companies to work smarter rather than harder.

I’m Kathy Paauw, owner of Paauwerfully Organized, an Organizing & Productivity Consultant, Paper Tiger Authorized Consultant, certified Life Coach, and a Teleclass Instructor. My mission is to help busy executives, professionals and entrepreneurs de-clutter their schedules, spaces and minds so you can focus on what is most important.

I do almost all of my work virtually. What does that mean? That means that I connect with my clients by telephone and Internet. I have access to a special program that enables me to share my computer screen with others, or have them share theirs with me, with both me and the client remaining in our respective offices. It’s almost like I’m sitting right next to the person I am speaking with. I have been working virtually since 2003. I also teach other consultants how to work virtually.

Because I am both a certified life coach and a productivity consultant, I am skilled in helping my clients deal with the tip of the iceberg (the physical environment), AND what’s under the water line (the mental part of being organized). I work with most of my clients in a dual role. The consulting part takes as little as 90 minutes. During this time I help my clients set up a customized tickler file system and we also customize how to set up the Paper Tiger to the user’s greatest benefit. Then I teach a paper management process that helps my clients to make good decisions about paper, email, voice messages, requests from others, and ideas.

Visit my website at www.orgcoach.net for more information.

Beverly Miller makes her home near Seattle, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest state of Washington. She considers it a blessing to have her two sons live in the same community, keeping her three grandsons close by. Not only a “born organizer”, Beverly is also an avid music lover and has taken up her childhood instrument once again – the harp!

As a professional organizer, Beverly has over twenty-five years of experience in the retail business. In 2004, through her exceptional management of thirty staff members, the Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) awarded her the coveted National Store of the Year. Beverly is a presenter at both national and regional CBA conventions, a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers and is a qualified Paper Tiger and GO! System consultant.

Beverly’s life mission is to inspire others to make positive life changes by creating beauty and order. Through her encouragement, organizational aptitude and ability to streamline multi-dimensional processes, she enhances productivity in her clients’ homes and businesses.

Karen Sprinkle founded Organize It, Home and Business Organizing in October 2000.

Karen believes that everyone can learn to be organized and she enjoys problem solving and finding solutions when there does not appear to be one. She uses industry standard organizing principles when helping her clients take control of their time, space and information.

Karen has dealt with difficulties in her own life by finding humor in the situation. She carries that trademark style into her work as an organizer. She feels that when she can get her clients to laugh at the little things they seem to have an easier time making decisions. Karen is determined to make every organizing session productive and fun.

Karen Sprinkle holds the following memberships and credentials:
* National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
* Paper Tiger Authorized Consultant™
* Toastmasters International District 63
Area 20 Governor 2008-
* Fountain City Toastmasters Club
President 2008-
Vice - President Education 2005-2007