President
Stephanie Shalofsky
Stephanie Shalofsky founded The Organizing Zone in 2008. She specializes in working with small business owners and individuals to create organizing solutions which can be maintained and will improve their productivity. She works with clients to organize their space, eliminate their clutter, process their papers and email, and manage their to-do lists.
Prior to founding her company, Stephanie spent over 20 years in the entertainment industry where she held various senior manager positions. Stephanie applies her prior experience along with her certification as a Productive Environment Specialist (CPES) to the work that she does with her clients.
Stephanie has been an active member of NAPO-NY since joining in 2007. Prior to being elected as President, she served 3 terms as Marketing Director and also has held numerous volunteer positions.
She is also an active member of New York Women in Film & Television and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
Vice President
Heather Warren-Dombrowa
Heather Warren-Dombrowa, CPO, ISRP, created Mission Accomplished in 2005—a boutique company specializing in issues of Productivity, Organization and Life's Transitions. She specializes in working with individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses, who look to achieve their goals quickly and effectively and enjoys facilitating Accountability Groups for those looking to strive to the next level.
She joined NAPO-NY in 2005 as well as the then newly formed Westchester Professional Organizers Neighborhood Group, also comprised of NAPO members. In the role of Vice President, she enters her fourth year on the board, having already served in the capacity of Marketing Director and Director at Large.
Heather has been a Certified Professional Organizer since 2008, and holds other certifications as an International Staging and Redesign Professional and a GO System Trainer. In her spare time she runs a neighborhood farmers’ market, and shares her love of urban agriculture and sustainable living practices with her clients whenever possible.
Secretary
Angela Kantarellis
Angela Kantarellis founded her company AKorganizing in 2006 and since then has had the pleasure of helping hundreds of busy New Yorkers get organized both at home and at the office. She specializes in creating clutter free, aesthetically pleasing and productive environments that support success and well being. She also helps clients live more productive and fulfilling lives through time management coaching. Prior to AKorganizing, Angela enjoyed a career in residential real estate sales.
Angela has been an active member of NAPO-NY since 2009. She regularly volunteers her energy, time and expertise at NAPO-NY sponsored events such as First Step Program and annual Get Organized (GO) month projects at local not-profits. This is her first term as Secretary on the NAPO-NY Board. Angela holds an undergraduate degree from New York University and a Master’s degree in Psychology from the New School for Social Research.
Treasurer
Sheila Delson, CPO-CD
Sheila Delson, CPO-CD®, is owner and President of FREEDomain Concepts, LLC, a professional organizing company, founded in 1994. She is a Certified Professional Organizer specializing in Chronic Disorganization (CD) issues, including AD/HD, OCD and Compulsive Hoarding. Although she works with the general population as well, she specializes in working with adults, seniors and students who experience severe disorganization difficulties as the result of neurological issues, trauma/loss, physical disabilities and illness, environmental conditions, and/or other related challenges.
Services include... customization and hands-on residential and small business/ small office organizing, including paper and file systems, off-site Virtual Organizing (via telephone/visual media), workshops and seminars. Clients learn new concepts about time and paper management, project planning, goal achievement, containerizing and basic organizing principals. On request, Sheila also offers a 4-6 week skill-building clutter management program which is available to groups in the New York and Connecticut areas. Please call or write for more information.
Sheila is a co-founder and Past President of the Institute for Challenging Organization (ICD) (www.challengingdisorganization.org), (formerly the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (2000-2006), and is the group’s past Certification Program co-developer, past Education and Certification Program Director (2006-2008), and holds specialist credentials in CD, AD/HD and Compulsive Hoarding, and is credentialed as an ICD Master Trainer. She has developed the Managing Your Clutter Program workshop series presented to groups on request. She is an active member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), where she served as the National Award’s Chair (2009-2011) and currently serves as a committee member. She is a graduate of Leadership Dutchess Program, class of 2000. Sheila lives with her husband Jeffrey, two adult children, and three beautiful grandchildren in the Poughkeepsie, NY area.
Media appearances... national network television programs, including FOX 5 TV GOOD DAY NY, and CBS-TV-NEWS THIS MORNING. She has been featured in WOMAN’S DAY magazines, the NEW YORK POST, PARENT’S MAGAZINE, POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as a recent appearance on THE COOKING CHANNEL for Al Roker Productions. Additionally, Sheila has presented lectures and workshops for West Point Military Academy, the “New York Gets Organized” Conference, NAPO Chapters and annual national conferences, ICD conferences (2000- present), Professional Organizers in Canada, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, YWCA, Chambers of Commerce, and many other private schools, clubs and organizations.
In December of 2011, Sheila presented three workshops on chronic disorganization for the Japanese Association of Life Organizers (JALO) Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, and March 2012 co-presented with Dr. Randi Frost for NAMI on the subject of compulsive hoarding.
Director at Large
Sharon Lowenheim
Sharon Lowenheim, CPO®, MBA, MSE, is finishing up her second year as President of NAPO-NY and is delighted to be entering her fifth year on the NAPO-NY board. She has been a member of NAPO and NAPO-NY since 2006. She is proud to have earned the designation of Certificate Professional Organizer® last year, and to be a new member of NAPO's Golden Circle.
Sharon helps individuals in their homes or offices to overcome three kinds of clutter: physical clutter, electronic clutter, and mental clutter. Her specialties are: maximizing the space in New York City apartments, and helping high performers to spend their time more productively. She founded Organizing Goddess, Inc., in 2006 after 25 years in Corporate America working for three of the world’s largest companies. She is a native New Yorker, spending a lifetime developing techniques for living happily and comfortably in small spaces.
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. She did her graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Masters degree in Computer Science as well as an MBA from the Wharton School.
Director of Communications & Technology
Madeleine Denitto
Madeleine DeNitto, owner of STRESSED.PRESSED.MESSED, has worked in the industry since 1999 in New York City, Atlanta and Charleston setting a mission to meet the needs of clients who have severe hoarding tendancies. She joined NAPO-NY in 2004.
Through a high level of independent research, which subsequently led her to consider the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, Madeleine has been an active subscriber of ICD since 2007 with over 170 hours of credit giving her extra skills and knowledge to specialize in chronic disorganization and compulsive hoarding. In previous years, Madeleine has worked on two critical task forces with ICD, including that of the name change. In 2011, she and ICD co-founder, Sheila Delson, co-presented a special lecture through NAMI about compulsive hoarding.
Madeleine, also highly active with NAPO, has held various positions on both national and chapter levels over the years. In addition, she has been a dedicated volunteer with NAPO's Quantum Leap Program, serving various charitable organizations. In 2011, STRESSED.PRESSED.MESSED began a business partnership with www.pencil.org, assisting a New York City public school with organizational needs in East Harlem. As a serious sideline, Madeleine is a professional photographer with work now continuing through various publications and websites.
Going on nearly seven years as an empty nester, Madeleine is the proud mother of two college graduates; she has a daughter who works for a major firm in Manhattan and a son who is finishing up his service with the Peace Corps in Peru and returning to NYC for law school. She and her husband currently live in beautiful Garrison, NY, where she is currently launching a new branch of services under the name Garrison Concierge, an elite service reserved specifically for the businesses and residences of the Hudson Valley's Philipstown.
Director of Marketing
Korinne Kubena Belock
Director of Membership
Alyssa Younger
Alyssa Younger, CPO, president of Master Plan Organizers, has been organizing New York residents and businesses since 2004. She not only helps individuals get organized in their homes and businesses but she also teaches time management and goal setting skills. She has served as the chapter's Membership Director since 2007 and received her certification as a Certified Professional Organizer that same year. Alyssa is also a member of The National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization and uses many of these skills when working with her clients who struggle to manage extraordinary circumstances such as depression and Traumatic Brain Injury. In her free time, Alyssa enjoys traveling to other countries where she often volunteers her time to help those in need and enjoys sharing some of her organizing skills.
Director of Professional Development
Collette Shine
Collette Shine has been an active member of NAPO-NY since 2008 and currently serves as the Professional Development Director. In the past year, Collette has recruited a team of NAPO-NY volunteers to assist in providing programming at the monthly chapter meetings as well as regularly scheduled webinars. In 2012, Collette hopes to expand these teams to provide additional energy and points of view to our chapter programming and webinar topics.
Some of our outstanding chapter meeting topics in 2011 included NAPO-NY members Kristin Bergfeld and Rebecca Eddy who presented "Aging in Place": Dynamic Opportunities for POs to Serve Elders and Shape a Growing Market and Sheila Delson, CPO-CD from the ICD Speaker's Bureau, who presented “Understanding Chronic Disorganization.” And in June, NAPO-NY sponsored our most successful webinar Everything You Wanted to Know About Virtual Organizing with Miriam Ortiz y Pino. And always ready to plan a party, Collette planned the 2009, 2010 and 2011 NAPO-NY holiday parties.
Collette founded Organize and Shine, LLC to help individuals and small businesses execute their goals in getting their stuff, spaces and projects organized. Collette particularly likes to work with photographs including photo organizing and creating photo projects such as photo books. Collette is a member of ICD (Institute for Challenging Disorganization) and is a charter member of APPO (Association of Personal Photo Organizers).
Collette has extensive experience in project and operations management. This experience includes project management of trading furniture installations at JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. In addition, Collette has managed the overseas production of multi-million dollar apparel orders for Nordstrom, J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart.
Collette graduated from The George Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Economics. Collette earned a MBA in Information Technology and Finance at Fordham University.
Associate Member Director
Scott Sinclair
associatemembership@napo-ny.net
Scott Sinclair has been a part of NAPO New York as an associate member since 2008 and a board member for NAPO NNJ in 2010. With a strong sales and business development background he would like to get more deeply involved in the New York Chapter to help the Associate Members broaden their reach and value to the NY Members as well as grow the Associate Member base and revenue to the chapter.
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