Adele Gross

I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and began organizing for my father at age 8.  He taught me to pay bills, write checks and reconcile his business accounts. Although I did not appreciate it at the time, my father taught me a valuable lesson, one that I could use throughout my entire life. 

I studied communications at Southeastern Louisiana University and Western Connecticut State University, when I was much younger.  I am currently attending Old Dominion University completing a Bachelors of Science degree in Professional Communications.  I am very proud of this accomplishment, because in addition to running my business I have two beautiful children (Jessica 14 and Connor 6), one dog (Jazz), one cat (Fluffy), and my husband (Karl) to attend to. 

My career experience includes: Hospitality Director for Gulf Breeze United Methodist church.  I developed their hospitality department.  My duties included: event planning, volunteer coordination, and food and beverage management.  I was an Office Manager in the Marketing Department and a Chief Concierge for Westin Hotels and Resorts in Santa Clara, California (Hyatt now runs the property).  As Office Manager I was responsible for supervising 8 administrative assistants, and I developed a business center for the hotel.  I started at Westin as the Chief Concierge, and developed the Concierge department.

At Your Service was created in 2003 to help people get organized, and provide solutions to stay organized.  I am a member of NAPO, the National Association of  Professional Organizers, and a member of the Golden Circle within NAPO.  Also, I am a member of Athens Toastmasters.