Meet the Organising Students team
I am an outgoing, friendly, and energetic individual who enjoys life, organisation, travel, good food and wine, and spending time with family and friends. As a parent of two adult sons, I cherish watching their life journeys unfold.
I am deeply passionate about ensuring that all children and students, whether neurotypical or with learning challenges, are equipped with effective organisational, time management, and study skills. These skills are crucial for their success and enjoyment both in school and in life.
With the publication of my first book in May 2024, “A Life Skills Handbook – Conquering Time Management and Organisation,” my goal is to reach and support as many students and their parents as possible, providing them with a roadmap to efficient time management and effective organisation.
Organising Students grew out of my previous business, Organising You, where I worked as an organising expert with many families to help them declutter and organise their homes. The recurring theme was the desire not to pass on ‘bad habits or lack of habits’ to their children. This insight led to a pivotal moment when my eldest son was transitioning to secondary school. I proposed and conducted a workshop for Year 6 students on what to expect, and how to manage time and organisation, as I believed they needed to be well-prepared for such a significant transition. This experience sparked the creation of Organising Students.
Anyone who knows me will affirm that I am a natural organiser with excellent time management skills. When I combined these skills with teaching study strategies, my journey as an Academic Life & Executive Function Coach began.
Today, I share my executive functioning, organising and time management expertise with students of all levels (primary, secondary, and university), as well as with parents and teachers globally. I am dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of students and their families by equipping them with the essential tools, skills, and strategies they need to thrive academically and in life.
My clients often highlight the key benefits of working with me:
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I am committed to continuous growth and regularly undertake training and professional development from providers around the world. This ongoing learning ensures that I can continue to make a difference in the lives of the students I work with now and those I will work with in the future!
If you’d asked me a few years ago what I thought I’d be doing with my life, I might have said “working as an Academic, researching 17th century French philosophers”. I am passionate about all kinds of learning (“philosophy” just means “the love of wisdom”), and was on track to follow this passion for the rest of my life with my undergraduate research published in an academic journal and a scholarship to pursue a PhD at Yale. But life took some unexpected and very happy turns, and I changed trajectories.
Over years of studying I had the opportunity to fine-tune my approach, implementing routines to manage constant deadlines and working through extensive projects from start to finish—and I discovered that learning requires so many more skills than just absorbing information! During the Covid pandemic, while working as a high school tutor, I became increasingly aware of the limitations of a content-driven approach to aiding students’ education. It often ignores the effects of the student’s personal strengths and weaknesses, interests, habits and family support. That was when I got to know Amanda and Organising Students, through witnessing the significant help and encouragement she had been to my younger sister through her final years of high school. Organising Students’ vision for equipping students with foundational organisation and time-management skills is the essential but often-overlooked piece of the education puzzle.
I bring to the Organising Students team particular strengths in critical thinking, research processes and writing—skills which schools are increasingly emphasising in their curricula and assessments—as well as firsthand experience of the challenge of perfectionism and finding creative ways to overcome it. I have gained valuable experience as a paediatric Occupational Therapy assistant and as a Support Worker for adults with intellectual disabilities. I love working with kids of all ages, and have taught in contexts ranging from volunteer Sunday school classes, private and group tutoring, through to College seminars.
I look forward to becoming part of your child’s education team!
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Working as a Primary and Secondary School Teacher, as well as an Instrumental Enrichment Mentor, I am now delighted to be joining the team.
I live with my husband and three teenage daughters. Parenting three elite athletes has taught me much about time management and motivation. Managing youth sport teams is a great joy for me, providing an opportunity to support coaches, athletes and their families administratively and emotionally. I am passionate about building relationships with students so that I can draw on their strengths. Being an excellent listener and communicator is a pillar of my personal philosophy.
With a diverse teaching background (Rudolf Steiner, Preshil and government schools), I have learned to draw upon a broad variety of methodologies to suit individual needs. I bring to this role 20 years of teaching, 18 years of parenting and 49 years of life living in Australia, the UK and the USA.
Another string in my bow is the title of Instrumental Enrichment Mentor (developed by Prof. Reuven Feuerstein). This is a program devised to improve cognitive (thinking and reasoning) functions, the building blocks of learning.
People thrive when they meet and overcome challenges. There are multitude of pathways to reach individual goals and I look forward to working with students, parents, schools and associated agencies/practitioners to bring about this success.
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Maxi lives with her husband and youngest daughter who attends disability programs with focus on independence and exploring options in the workforce. Olly and Charli Cavoodles are important members of the family, taking care of their ‘Needy Humans’, providing cuddles on demand. Her oldest daughter is at university and working full time.
Maxi loves being organised, working a plan and finding easier ways to get things done. With administrative experience in many settings, Maxi is passionate about achieving balance in health and wellbeing with productivity, mental stretching and social connection.
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