Mom – The Family Manager

I oversee the most important organization in the world –Where hundreds of decisions are made dailyWhere property and resources are managedWhere health and nutritional needs are determinedWhere finances and futures are discussed and debatedWhere projects are planned and events are arrangedWhere transportation and scheduling are criticalWhere team-building is a priorityWhere careers begin and endI am a Family Manager.
- Accountant/Bookkeeper
- Auto Maintenance Supervisor
- Baby-sitter/Day-care Worker
- Building Supervisor
- Chauffeur
- Cheerleader
- Chef
- Coach/Team-builder
- Counselor
- Dean of Education
- Entertainment Chairman
- Fashion Coordinator
- Filing Clerk
- Fitness Trainer
- Gardner
- Gift Coordinator
- Health-care Practitioner
- Historian and Curator
- Hotel Manager
- Interior Designer
- Laundress
- Maid
- Manager of Food Service
- Purchasing Agent
- Referee
- Seamstress
- Secretary
- Short-order Cook
- Travel Agent
- Veterinarian
Congratulations! You are a family manager!
Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) and was voted 2016 Organizer of the Year by the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO.



Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) and was voted 2016 Organizer of the Year by the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO.
Wow, I am tired just reading that list! Thank you (and Kathy Peel) for reminding us that everything we do is valuable, not just the work we get paid for.
Yes, if you think about it. Moms do a lot for their families. More than an manager/boss.