Although I didn’t realise it at the time, my almost 20 year career in hospitality and events management, finishing up as Head of Events at the British Museum, was a masterclass in creating order from chaos; learning how to manage people, spaces and projects to get the desired result.  I learnt to blend organisation with creativity, spreadsheets, plans and processes balanced with a love of design and lots of creative ideas.

And I did it all under considerable time pressure and demanding expectations…all while making it look effortlessly easy. Doesn’t that sounds like fun??

Before I started An Hour Earned I worked for 5-star hotels and charities planning events attended by world leaders, celebrities and royalty, solving all the challenges these threw up.  In my time I’ve served chicken liver parfait to Stephen Hawking, married off two England football players (to other people, not each other), found prune juice at 3am in the Italian countryside for a constipated Hollywood film director, organised the opening of a new museum gallery by HM the Queen and got my feet trodden on by Bill Clinton. I’ve never met a challenge I couldn’t conquer and I don’t scare easily!

Add to that a love of bringing order out of chaos and of decluttering and organising and I get immense satisfaction out of a perfectly organised kitchen cupboard, a colour-coordinated family diary or a beautifully tidy expenses spreadsheet!

One thing a good organiser knows is how to make the impossible look simple, you can’t juggle delivering over 200 events a year (as my team used to do) without keeping it simple.  Simple means organised, calm and in control. 

We’re all busy and we’re all juggling way too many things at once. The support of professional organising services like those I offer will make the juggling easier by helping you sort your space, organise your life and work and take the stress and strain out of the everyday.