"Kacy, what are you really passionate about?" asked the big sister.

"It doesn't sound very glamorous, but . . . organizing paper," answered the serial entrepreneur with 5 business cards.

    I think we all often quietly ask ourselves this question. When I heard it out loud though, the answer came immediately.  Before “The Inspired Office” was born, I always thought my plethora of interests had to be kept far away from each other, hence, the 5 business cards.  The Inspired Office emerged out of what they all had in common- from professional organizing, to feng shui consulting, to time management consulting, to job coaching for government employees with disabilities, to making terrariums. I guess my answer of “organizing paper” came through so clearly because I soon was to see it as the way to combine my loves and talents in a cornucopia of beauty and order.  200 organizing clients later, I knew I needed to not only keep my organizing card, but niche to work with a creative population like myself and stick to my strengths: offices and paper.  Around the same time a friend keenly observed, "God made you good at something the rest of the world hates."

    I was probably about 13 when I created my first filing system. It housed very important items such as lists my friends and I had made about people we wanted to be friends with and what boys we liked. There it sat on my closet floor until I moved out after college. Upon rediscovery, being that organized at 13 in and of itself gave me a good laugh, let alone the categories I had preserved with such honor!

    A DC local, it’s no coincidence I was born into a town with so much paper. During college and for a few years after, I worked for a USAID contractor. One of my most memorable jobs was archiving over a hundred busted and torn boxes of files that had come in from a closed project in the Philippines. The funny thing is that this wasn’t in my job description- I volunteered to sort, label, and archive them. The hours flew by and I was in the zone. My largest filing project to date was for what became more than 30 drawers of documents for a multi-million dollar project. Those jobs were working with paper. Now I work with people, who just happen to have a lot of paper.

    I became a professional organizer immediately after graduating college with a degree in cultural anthropology. If ever forced to return to higher education, I would certainly compile my observations of the messy American office. Back in 2001 there weren’t many people pursuing a career in organizing straight out of college. For me, it was the next natural step. Organizing is the only career I’ve ever known. 

    I also have traveled nationwide as a Job Coach, working with government and military employees with cognitive disabilities on organizing and time management skills. Some of my greatest success stories are with these clients- many with ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, or physical limitations. Inspired Offices have popped up in unlikely corners of the US Government.

Other facts:

- National Association of Professional Organizers Member since 2001

- Conducted an independent study project on traditional Balinese architecture in the family compound. Bali, Indonesia, 2000

- 6C Security Clearance

- Insured and Bonded

- Has completed three extensive classical feng shui courses and dozens of traditional feng shui consultations for home and business

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