BarbaraHemphill

Barbara Hemphill is CEO of Hemphill Productivity Institute (HPI), whose mission is to help individuals and organizations create and sustain a productive environment so they can accomplish their work and enjoy their lives. HPI helps clients organize time, space, and information so they can maximize productivity and reduce stress.

Barbara is the author of Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger at Home, Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger at Work, and Simplify Your Workday. Her most recent book, Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter-Free Forever! was launched on Home Shopping Network. She is currently writing a new book entitled Taming the Paper Tiger in the Digital Age: There’s an Easy Switch.

The Paper Tiger methodology is featured in Taming the Paper Tiger software – a filing system “guaranteed to find anything in your office in five seconds or less.” The product is now used in settings ranging from an Illinois pig farm to executive offices of Fortune 100 companies. Her proprietary processes include The 8-Hour Miracle™ and The Paper Tiger Productivity System™ which guarantee a ten percent increase in productivity by any measure the client chooses. A pioneer in the field of professional organizing, Barbara started her business in 1978 with a $7 ad in a New York City newspaper. Today she has a national team of more than 100 Productivity Trainer Authorized Consultants™ .

Barbara has appeared on several television shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, HGTV, CNN Nightly News, CNBC, and CNN-FN. She is a celebrated international speaker, corporate spokesperson, and consultant to small businesses and major corporations worldwide. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Fast Company, Investor’s Business Daily, Business Week, Home Office Computing, Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Real Simple, USA Today, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Herald, Wall Street Journal and Boardroom Reports and was featured on the cover of Guidepost magazine.

Her business grew out of the lessons learned growing up on a farm in Nebraska. Her formal training was in music and education. Barbara sees organizing as an art form, and invites her clients to: “paint a picture of the kind of life you want to live, and we will help you create and sustain a productive environment that will enable you to get there.” She has lived in the West Indies, India, New York City, and Washington, DC. While living in India, she adopted three children. In addition, she has two stepchildren and one grandchild. She now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband Alfred Taylor. Their home sits on 70 acres of woods overlooking a 30-acre lake. People love coming to Barbara’s home see whether she practices what she preaches!

Area of Expertise:

· Individuals looking to create and sustain a more productive environment so they can accomplish their work and enjoy their lives.

· Business leaders looking to improve their company’s productivity – and bottom line.

· Companies looking to organize their time, space, and information so they can maximize employee productivity and reduce stress.

1. Find anything you need when you need it. The average person spends 150 hours looking for misplaced information. In spite of the promise of the paperless office, statistics show that by the end of 2005, there will be 50% more paper in offices than there was in 1995! Discover once and for all the question to ask to determine whether you should to “go paperless.” Feeling overwhelmed with e-mail? Wasting time looking for names and addresses you use dozens of times? Learn how you –- or anyone else — can find anything in your office in five seconds or less! Would you rather spend time looking for what you need – or talking to a patient – or playing golf? It’s your life we’re talking about!

2. It’s no secret. Companies lose thousands, even millions, of dollars each year through employee disorganization and stress-induced health issues. Bottom line is, this affects a company’s bottom line. Using a conservative per employee average hourly wage/benefit rate of $25, it’s easy to see how companies lose thousands, even millions, of dollars each year through employee disorganization and stress-induced health issues caused by disorganization. HPI’s Productive Environment Process brings together all the organizing philosophy, systems, and tools developed over 25 years by Barbara Hemphill, author of Taming the Paper Tiger, to bring productivity improvement to every individual in a business or organization. The value HPI represents to clients is in providing systems that radically change workdays, increase efficiency, free up time, develop peace of mind, and lead to a more stress-free work environment.

3. Discover the benefits of a clutter-free life. This real-world, but light-hearted approach, will help you decide what to keep and how to store it, find it, and share it. The “clutter-free approach” will save you time, eliminate your frustration, and allow you to seize opportunities instantly. You may think that clutter doesn’t matter. Consider this! A client of mine tried to hire someone he really wanted for his company, but the prospective employee went to work for a competitor. Several weeks later when my client saw the guy on the golf course, he asked, “Do you mind if I ask you why you didn’t come to work for me? I know I gave you a better financial offer than you have now.” The reply: “I looked at your office and it looked like things were totally out of control – I didn’t want to be part of the fray.”

Barbara Hemphill’s speaking fee is $ 7,500. She is also available for breakout sessions and in-house training. A reduced rate is available for local (NC) area associations, long-term contracts or multiple dates.

“Many people commented on your excellent speaking style: ‘energetic& engaging, clear, funny, easy to relate to, very enthusiastic and knowledgeable, Barbara Hemphill offered clear, concise information.’ Clearly there is a great interest among our employees in getting organized.”

“You helped to make our Conference a great success! Many of the attendees had remarked that you were the highlight of the Conference. One person had stated, ‘Barbara Hemphill was fabulous.’ You were able to communicate a great deal of practical information that can be applied to our everyday lives. Your presentation was very educational and enjoyed by all those who attended.”

“On behalf of the Wake County Estate Planning Council, I want to thank you for your excellent presentation at out meeting on January 19. All of our members with whom I talked after the dinner were highly complimentary of your presentation.”

“Your participation as a speaker/workshop presenter made the conference an outstanding success. Overall the participants rated the conference 4.2 on a scale of 1-5. We also asked them to rate each session. We have included the ratings they gave for your session (4.6) along with the written comment we received. (‘Barbara is clearly a professional. She presents an excellent seminar. She is motivating and thought provoking. I will utilize ideas that she presented.’) Thank you again for your participation.”

“I can’t say it enough, thank you, thank you, thank you! ENESCO has not been the same since you left! A week has passed and everyone is still talking about the seminar! You have really made a lasting impression on a lot of people and have made our ‘working lives’ a lot easier.”