Ellen's goal is to help people organize their personal space and understand the obstacles that prevent them from reaching their life goals. Her success with clients is due to the open & honest relationships she builds, her talent to quickly get to the core of what is causing disorganization and her ability to create a supportive environment for change. She's also quite fun to work with according to her clients!

Ellen's combined personal and professional experiences bring a fresh, unique approach to Neat. From bedrooms to buildings, Ellen enjoys the spectrum of space management challenges while teaching others about the many benefits of simplicity. She earned a degree in English and public speaking from the University of California at Davis. Her strong communication skills help her to connect with clients to ensure their own organizational success.

As a mother with two children, a small house, a husband, a sixty-pound dog and a growing business, her approach to organization is necessarily sensible. She shares firsthand insight and tips to help her clients live simpler, more practical lives.

Her years as a classically trained pastry chef heightened her attention to detail. Ellen also draws on years of living in Europe where people’s efficient, effective use of space and resources influenced her organizing style.
Ellen Damaschino is the Organizing Editor on the nationally broadcast and popular morning television show Better™. Her four years of television work have included regular organizing segments for better.tv, parents.tv, More™ and Good Day Lifestyles. Ellen is the Vice President and an active member of the National Association of Professional Organizers Oregon Chapter as well as a member of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization. She has been a product spokesperson for Microsoft™, filmed commercials for Frosted Mini Wheat’s™ and is frequently sought after by the media for information on timely organizing topics.

Ellen is an accomplished and dynamic speaker who uses humor and compassion to inspire her audiences to achieve organizational success. Her workshop and keynote topics include: Real Life Organizing; Work, Work Work, Life is Not Balanced; Time Just Doesn’t Happen; Perfectionist or Procrastinator; and The Big Three. Her expertise has landed her feature articles in Ladies Home Journal™, Better Homes and Gardens™, My Home Life™ magazine and USA Today™ Weekend.

Ellen holds a degree in English from the University of California, Davis and spent 15 years in the restaurant business as a classically trained pastry chef.

When Ellen is not passionately extolling the virtues of being organized she is enjoying her small farmhouse in Portland, Oregon with her two children, husband, sixty-pound dog and small fruit orchard. Her passions include gourmet cooking, baking, volunteering at the Oregon Food Bank, modern design and alphabetizing her spice rack.

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