Qualifications:
Barbara Ricketts, Founder and President of LifeStyle Management Associates, provides “Smart Yet Simple Strategies to Organize Your Life.”

With an educational foundation in communicative disorders and interpersonal communication, Barbara has a diverse and extensive organizing and management history extending from
Denver, CO, to Westford, MA (Boston area) and now in Santa Clarita, CA.

Her professional focus is in residential and Small Office and Home Office organizing, helping individuals and organizations in their struggle against time, clutter and space.

Barbara’s mission is to help her clients overcome the perceptions and feelings of being “overwhelmed and out of control” in their daily professional and personal life. As Barbara points out, “disorganization and clutter block energy and affect us in all areas of our lives”.

Barbara has conducted presentations on time management and various aspects of organizing for numerous corporations, retail groups, women’s organizations, and clubs and has been featured in several newspaper articles, the Boston Business Journal, and most recently, The Signal, (Saturday, April 30, 2005).

In 2002 she was a guest several times on the radio show Money Wise in the Boston area. She writes a monthly “organizing column” in The Magazine of Santa Clarita as “THE MESS DOCTOR”.

She is an active member of Business Network International (BNI) and the L. A. Chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). She was on the Board of Directors of the New England Professional Organizers. She is the past President of the Concord, MA, BNI Chapter and Vice President of the Platinum BNI Chapter in Santa Clarita.