Barbara Hemphill
Author, consultant, and productivity expert, aka "Paper Tiger Lady" passionate about helping attendees increase profit, productivity, and peace of mind.
Barbara Hemphill started her organizing career in 1978 with a $7 ad in a New York City newspaper. Today, as the founder of the Productive Environment Institute, she leads an international team of Certified Productive Environment Specialists™. Barbara defines a “productive environment” as “an intentional setting in which you can accomplish your work and enjoy your life."
A pioneer and respected leader in paper, information & time management, as well as work/life balance, Barbara’s books include Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger series, Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter-Free Forever, Less Clutter More Life, Organizing Paper @Home: What to Toss and How to Find the Rest, Walking with Barbara: 30 Emails from God.
Spanning a 40-year career on the cutting edge of a billion-dollar industry, Barbara has appeared on the Today Show and Good Morning America, CNN Nightly News, and has been featured in Fast Company, Investor’s Business Daily, Reader's Digest, USA Today, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, The New York Times, Real Simple, and Guideposts magazine. She is past president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, a winner of the Founder’s Award, a two-time winner of the President’s Award, and past president of the DC Chapter of the National Speaker’s Association. She has been featured in 100 Women to Know in America, Formidal Women Power 20, and 100 Top Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
Barbara's family includes three adopted children, two stepchildren, four grandchildren, and her one-of-a-kind husband Alfred Taylor, with whom she shares their own Productive Environment™ near Raleigh, NC.
Barbara Hemphill started her organizing career in 1978 with a $7 ad in a New York City newspaper. Today, as the founder of the Productive Environment Institute, she leads an international team of Certified Productive Environment Specialists™. Barbara defines a “productive environment” as “an intentional setting in which you can accomplish your work and enjoy your life."
A pioneer and respected leader in paper, information & time management, as well as work/life balance, Barbara’s books include Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger series, Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter-Free Forever, Less Clutter More Life, Organizing Paper @Home: What to Toss and How to Find the Rest, Walking with Barbara: 30 Emails from God.
Spanning a 40-year career on the cutting edge of a billion-dollar industry, Barbara has appeared on the Today Show and Good Morning America, CNN Nightly News, and has been featured in Fast Company, Investor’s Business Daily, Reader's Digest, USA Today, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, The New York Times, Real Simple, and Guideposts magazine. She is past president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, a winner of the Founder’s Award, a two-time winner of the President’s Award, and past president of the DC Chapter of the National Speaker’s Association. She has been featured in 100 Women to Know in America, Formidal Women Power 20, and 100 Top Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
Barbara's family includes three adopted children, two stepchildren, four grandchildren, and her one-of-a-kind husband Alfred Taylor, with whom she shares their own Productive Environment™ near Raleigh, NC.
5 Power Strategies for Less Clutter More Life
Taming the Digital Tiger: Creating a Productive Environment in the Cloud
An international survey of 5000 office professionals found that 61% (69% in US) would change jobs solely for the sake of dramatically less paperwork. Eighty percent of organizations failed to develop paper filing systems that could be shared. Then came Bill Gates, and companies stopped paying ANY attention to paper files because of the "paperless promise." Unfortunately, in many organizations the person who should be the champion of Almost Paperless™ is over 40 years old and struggles with...
Sometimes It Takes An Expert To Take Out the Trash: What To Toss and How To Find the Rest!
Research shows that 80% of what we keep we never use, but determining what 20% to keep, and how to find it when you need it, proves challenging for most people -- at work and at home. A study by Brother International indicates collective messy desks and time spent looking for misplaced items costs corporate America $177 billion annually. An OfficeMax study found 87% of workers admit that when their space is cluttered they "feel less productive" and one in five employees admit having...
Closets, Clutter, & Corporations
For 20 years, Barbara Hemphill focused on organizing paper and physical clutter. With the dawn of the Internet, she began applying her principles to digital clutter. In recent years has concluded that the additional clutter that prevents people from accomplishing their work and enjoying their lives is emotional and spiritual. At the beginning of 2015, "How to declutter" was ranked #14 on Google in the "How to" searches. Discussions of clutter abound in the...
Organizing Your Life to Answer God's Call
For over three decades, Barbara Hemphill has based her organizing business on four words: Clutter is postponed decisions®. Hear her story as it was featured on the cover of Guildeposts magazine, learn specific strategies to get your own life in order, and influence others to make the most important decision in their lives.
