About Us

Diana Jillie, President of Executive Organizing Consultants, has been developing organizational expertise throughout her professional career.  She is a member of NAPO, the National Association of Professional Organizers, and is active in the local San Diego chapter.

Ms. Jillie began applying her organizing skills in Andover, Massachusetts while a senior in High School.  Her mission began as she set up the first ever Photography Club and darkroom at Abbot Academy, now Phillips Andover Academy.  She trained others on photographic techniques, staged a photography contest, and served as photography editor of both the school paper and yearbook.

In college, Ms. Jillie embraced an entrepreneurial role as a portrait photographer of fellow students.  This helped finance her way through college.  She continued her role as Yearbook and College Newspaper editor.  The ability to sort through mounds of information, pare it down to essentials, and present the information in a meaningful and orderly way stood her in good stead for future professional roles. But sorting and weeding weren't the only organizational skills at work here. Perhaps more importantly, Ms. Jillie learned how to listen, how to ask the right questions, and how to capture the essence of the real story in people’s lives.

The final step in preparation for Ms. Jillie's role as a professional organizer began in 1981.  That's when she joined Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California as  marketing program manager.  The hours were long, the deadlines tough, but Ms. Jillie met the challenges head-on and honed her skills as she managed, developed, and delivered customer success stories in multi-media forms.

All through out her life, Ms. Jillie has been setting up office systems and processes, for her own company and others.  Meanwhile she has been creating photographic memoirs, first in traditional albums, and then by digital methods.  The skills needed include organizing, a good eye, knowledge of scanning techniques, Windows Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, & Outlook), PhotoShop, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Quicken, Dyno, and Creative Memories digital software.  In addition, Ms. Jillie was a 2-term President of the NAPO-San Diego Chapter. 

Ms. Jillie's philosophy centers on helping clients set up simple, organizational systems and memoirs that reflect how they think, and then helping them learn how to maintain them with a minimum of time and effort.  Her commitment to excellence, cutting edge knowledge, and to going beyond expectations enables her to serve her clients exceptionally well, and help clients achieve the level of organization they need and that fits their lifestyle.