As a Certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant, Amy has experience in creating customized solutions that are easy to maintain. She helps her clients identify goals, priorities and opportunities. She shares tools to help tackle productivity challenges which includes time management, focus management, streamlining processes, work/life integration and much more.
Amy has over 30 years of experience streamlining. Her background includes experience in engineering, lean manufacturing, household management (mother of 4) and small business management. In 2008, she founded Freshly Organized, in Omaha, Nebraska. She is currently working out of Kansas City, Missouri.
A few things that make Amy Tokos, CPO® special:
Amy is an industry leader and served as the President of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals in 2021-2023
Amy has been a Certified Professional Organizer since 2013. She maintains her certification by continuing her education.
Amy is Co-Host of Your Real, Your Ideal Podcast. You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts.
She has been an entrepreneur since 2008 when she founded Freshly Organized.
Amy believes in keeping it R.E.A.L. She does not perpetuate the myth that spaces and processes should be perfect…they need to be realistic and meet the goals you want to achieve. Her ultimate goal is to help you be your most productive self.
Amy’s organizing and productivity insights have been featured in local and national media including NBC Today, Good Housekeeping, CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, and much more
Productivity Consulting
Do you want to increase your productivity? You will get help identifying priorities, defining opportunities to streamline processes and creating focus time in your schedule to get done what needs to be done. With a background in engineering and lean manufacturing, Amy Tokos, CPO® is a problem solver and a master at simplifying processes. Amy works with executives, business owners and work teams to increase productivity by implementing better processes, creating focus time and strategizing more efficient daily routines.
Event Keynote Speaker
We all know the why productivity is important and it’s easy to find tips and tricks on how to be productive. Amy set’s all that aside in her keynote when she shares the R.E.A.L. framework (Realistic, Essential, Authentic, Livable) that will help attendees check their assumptions and identify their opportunities to be more productive. Her experience as a mom, engineer, professional organizer, productivity consultant, and business owner gives her lots of fun stories and great tips to share!
Keynote
What’s the REAL Game Changer? Insights and Inspiration for a More Productive Day.
Inspiration on how to be productive and organized comes in many forms. Sometimes articles, other people, or even social media will inspire us to purchase a thing that we believe will be our organizing or productivity game changer. In 2021 the home organizing market share was over $11 Billion and we spent over $47 Billion in productivity systems. We’re spending a lot of money yet, many of us are still searching for the thing that’s going to make us more productive.
As a Certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant, I experience how people are searching for their game changer. That want the tip that will transform their day. They’re ready to invest in a product that will transform their space. In my keynote, I will share some of my insights I’ve learned in my experience and as a leader in the industry. I will also give the audience a framework to check assumptions and ask the right questions when solving their productivity challenges.
Attendees will:
- discover a few of their assumptions about time and how they can be more Realistic.
- learn how Essential it is to honor their priorities.
- realize the outside productivity influences that are keeping them from being Authentic.
- identify Livable opportunities to be more organized and productive.
This presentation is perfect for any busy person who has lots of balls in the air and is ready to catch their breath.
Where You’ve Seen Amy
Amy’s organizing and productivity insights have been featured in local and national media including NBC Today, Good Housekeeping, CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, and much more. She is a regular presenter of productivity and organizing topics. Her audience sizes range from a team of 2 people to a conference room with 500 people.
PODCAST
YOUR REAL, YOUR IDEAL
If you’d like to be inspired and get to know Amy better, you can listen to the Your Real, Your Ideal podcast. Amy and her Co-host, Sandy Lane, have weekly conversations about topics that help us recognize the real in life’s situations to get to our desired ideal. Practical. Honest. Fun. Curious. These conversations just might change your perspective. Sandy and Amy are helping their listeners create the ideal we are all striving for in this journey of life. Listen to our latest below.
