The Company
Simplified Living Solutions, Inc is passionate about helping you achieve peace, simplicity, and order in your home, office and life by teaching you how to effectively manage your time, tasks and stuff so that your home and office function more efficiently and effortlessly.
Offering hands-on professional organizing services and productivity consulting to small business and residential clients in Metro St. Louis and surrounding areas, we provide the jumpstart, encouragement and expertise that is needed to help you see your clutter “mountains” for what they really are…“mole hills”!
We transform chaotic, stressful surroundings into simpler, more peaceful environments. As professionals, we do not see your “mess” or organizing challenge through the same eyes as you do, we immediately begin seeing the possibilities of what it will be. All services are confidential and non-judgmental.
Meet our Team
Sue Anderson, CPO®, The Messy Desk Expert
A natural at creating systems that make processes flow smoothly and efficiently, Sue is passionate about helping people achieve peace, simplicity, and order in their home, office and life. She loves the thrill of empowering busy, overwhelmed people to become more productive (and less stressed) by setting up their home or office to function more efficiently and effortlessly. She believes professional organizing is not just about the stuff, it changes lives.
While most people are overwhelmed and paralyzed by their clutter or disorganization, Sue immediately sees the possibilities of what will be. “The bigger the mess, the more I love the work!” she says. With 25+ years experience in customer service and administrative/ clerical roles, Sue’s desire to help others far outweighed her fears of leaving the corporate world so she took a leap of faith and embraced the role in which she believes God created her for by becoming a professional organizer. She hasn’t looked back since!
Sue is recognized as an expert in the professional organizing field and is among those who are on the leading edge of education, strategies, products and standards concerning the organizing industry. Sue is 1 of only 7 Certified Professional Organizers in Missouri and 1 of only a few hundred nationwide. As a committed NAPO member, she serves as Vice President and Director of Membership for the local NAPO St Louis Chapter. She holds a Level I Certificate of Study in Chronic Disorganization, as well as a Level II Chronic Disorganization Specialist Certificate, from the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD). She is also a Certified Freedom Filer Consultant, Missouri’s only Authorized Freedom Filer Trainer and a Certified Clear & SIMPLE™ Professional Organizer.
Sue’s areas of expertise are paper management (aka paper piles) and messy, unproductive desks, offices, home offices and filing systems.
Shannon Zipoy, Professional Organizer
Shannon has always been an organized person and a logical thinker. She gets a huge kick out of creating systems and plans of action to make work, households, classrooms, social groups, organizations & life run more smoothly. Shannon gets so excited in the home organizing section of a store that she can spend hours looking for the perfect container, planner, or wandering the home office or school supply aisles.
These natural skills were tested and enhanced in her previous career as a high school social studies and special education teacher, and the head cheerleading coach. The daily management of multiple subjects, 180 teenage students and 50 – 60 energetic cheerleaders taught her a tremendous amount about herself and working with others to create organizational systems that function for everyone involved. Her experience and training as an educator provided her with unique skills and abilities to create multiple types of action plans for multiple types of learners and thinkers.
Shannon is a Certified Freedom Filer Consultant and serves as Director of Marketing for NAPO St Louis. She is also an active member of National Association Professional Organizers and National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization.
Mimi Burns, Professional Home Organizer
Mimi Burns started her career as an Interior Designer, but realized that her true passion was for organizing. She motivates clients to establish organizing systems tailored to their needs and desires. During the process of organization, Mimi will teach you how to maintain organization in your home for years to come. It is very empowering for clients to overcome the “mountain” of disorganization and regain peace and order to their lives.
Mimi strives to remain on the cutting edge of current trends in both the organizing and design industries and attends classes and workshops throughout the year.
Mimi is a Certified Freedom Filer Consultant and an active member of NAPO St Louis. She is also an active member of the National Association Professional Organizers – NAPO. Mimi earned her degree in Interior Design in 1995.
Mimi’s areas of expertise are closets, vanities, cabinets, kids’ rooms, play rooms, living spaces and time management, with an emphasis on personal planners.
Kristine Fields, Office Manager
Kristine is the person you’ll likely reach when you make your initial contact with Simplified Living Solutions, Inc. Kristine will happily answer all of your questions, quickly put your mind at ease and/or schedule a consultation or hands-on session with one of our professional organizers. She strives to serve our clients with professionalism and understanding.
Kristine has a degree in Interior Design. She specialized in Kitchen and Bath design for almost 10 years before leaving to raise her three children. Having a family of five, Kristine knows first hand how important it is for busy moms to live a simple and organized life!
