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PRESIDENT
Paula Ripple, CPO®
During Paula’s corporate career as an accountant and financial system developer, she was an organizer of dollars and data. For fun, she organized the closets and kitchens of friends. Her company, Organizewell, was born in 2011 out of Paula’s own struggle to regain her former levels of organization after her battle with breast cancer. As the mother and the spouse of Type 1 Diabetics, Paula understands first-hand how life challenges can be overwhelming and create chaos at work and home. Working as an organizer, she is grateful to help her clients reclaim their lives by cutting clutter and finding new approaches to productivity. In her free time, Paula enjoys stand up paddle boarding, wakeboarding with her kids and gardening
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VICE PRESIDENT Schae Lewis is a Certified Professional Organizer® who co-founded Mission 2 Organize in 2010. Not only has her work been featured on nationally televised Hoarders on A&E, but her “How 2” videos have been viewed on YouTube over one million times. She previously served 4 yrs as NAPO Chicago Marketing Director and is the chapter's current Vice President and BCPO® Liaison. In her free time, Schae enjoys traveling the world with her husband, kayaking, bicycling, gardening and dancing. |
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Mackenzie loves working on the M2O team doing hands on organizing and educating others through the M2O Facebook page, blog and monthly videos. Mackenzie loves continuing her education recently achieving her NAPO certificates in Residential Organizing and Workplace Productivity.
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TREASURER Marcy Baim
Marcy Baim is a professional organizer and has been a member of NAPO since 2021. She currently serves the NAPO Chicago board of directors as Treasurer.
Having managed events and an art gallery for over 20 years, Marcy has extensive experience in customer service and attention to detail and has been in the bookkeeping field for over 3 decades. |
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DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP
Susan Bailey
In navigating the new world of multiple family members with multiple food allergies, Susan realized sometimes you need a little help. She wanted to be the person helping those new to a life of managing food allergies and Celiac Disease. From this idea came Cygnet Organizing LLC. She has learned that simplifying other aspects of your life frees up time for you to focus on having safe good food for you and your family to enjoy. When not organizing or cooking, Susan enjoys gardening, reading, hiking, parade float building, and is training for her first 5K.
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After being pigeon-holed into administrative job after administrative job, Phaedra looked for an alternate career. Realizing that applying to another corporate job was the exact definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result), she searched for other ideas. Based on her past experience in both the corporate and performing arts worlds, she knew she had a strong organizational skill set. From there she decided to share her skills with creative people who were stuck in similar dilemmas: working traditional jobs to make ends meet while balancing the many areas of their home life. She established Practical Possibilities in January of 2019.
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DIRECTOR AT LARGE
Elesheva Soloff
Elesheva Soloff started Soloff Space Solutions in 2010 helping clients to improve their space’s flow to save them time and stress. She loves working with clients to convert their frustrations into customized solutions. Elesheva is happy to return to the NAPO Chicago board as Director-At-Large for 2021-2022 year. In her spare time, she's outdoors whether urban gardening, biking, climbing or running. |
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DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION
Ev Greenberg
administration@napochicago.com Ev started R-Cubed - Reorganize/Reuse/Recycle - in 2015, and joined NAPO the following year. Her business focuses on helping clients declutter in an environmentally-friendly manner. She finds homes for donations and determines what and where your no-longer-needed items can be recycled. She works with many types of clients – ranging from families with young children, to super busy working young adults, to seniors who need to let things go. Ev learns from her clients and works with them to individually accomplish their goals. She understands that each situation is different, yet she makes it work! |
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Anita has been creating beautiful places and organized spaces for over 12 years. Her path to Professional Organizing grew from Interior Design, helping clients improve function and style of their spaces, and managing remodel projects. Her experience also includes corporate communications, marketing and broadcast journalism. She has served on the NAPO Chicago board since 2016, as Director at Large and Vice President. Anita finds creative inspiration in music and the arts, and enjoys Chicago's many immersive cultural performances and celebrations. Her favorite downtime involves snorkeling and beach sunsets, and friends around a fire pit!
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DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Michelle Cicirello
professionaldevelopment@napochicago.com As a former CPS high school teacher and Executive Director at National Merit Scholarship Corporation, Michelle spent over 15 years honing the skills of organization and productivity. Nothing could have more finely tuned those skills than becoming a mother of two. She founded Momentum Organizing with the vision of helping others reclaim their spaces and systems. She finds enjoyment in organizing spaces and schedules, and truly believes life is much richer and more fulfilling without physical and mental clutter. Being kind to the Earth is something she tries to incorporate into everything she does, and she approaches organizing jobs through that lens. She is an avid student of the robust continuing education provided by NAPO University. |
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DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
Catherine Belzile Gibel
With a background in social work and crisis intervention, Catherine understands the value of assessing whatever mess is getting in your way. It’s not about striving for perfection, it’s about finding that shift in your head and your heart that says, “I can do this. I am worth this.” As compassionate collaborator, she has a unique ability to calm the stress found in your mess. She finds great joy in celebrating her clients' strengths, and supporting them on their journey to live well in their home. Catherine lives in the Western Suburbs of Chicago with her husband and 7 year old son. They love to read, play board games, skateboard, and shoot hoops together. Catherine also loves to garden, paint, and flip through home décor books. |