We help you implement positive changes for the long term
Simply in Place works with you to develop strategies for your lasting success. With expertise in law, financial planning, mediation, organizational productivity and coaching, we understand the challenges confronting individuals and businesses.
In serving our clients, we have found trust to be essential for a positive and fruitful working relationship. We will earn yours by offering valuable personalized service with measurable results.
Our professional organizing consultants
"Dawn Martin and the Paper Tiger system have revolutionized my life … I now have a system that makes sense to me, is easy to integrate into my life and work, and has enabled me to minimize the amount of paper I need to retain. I have increased energy to focus on more critical tasks because I am not distracted by looking for files and seeing piles of paper that I never seemed to reduce. My structural thinking and ability to integrate processes are minimal so if I can do this, anyone can!"
- Executive Coach (former executive director of the Alexandria, Virginia Chamber of Commerce)
Dawn Martin, Principal
Principal of Simply in Place, Dawn Martin is an organizing consultant, a lawyer and a professional mediator. As a Paper Tiger Authorized Consultant, she offers productivity consulting and organizing services to clients in Washington, DC; the U.S.; Canada and Latin America. She also provides mediation and conflict management training and services.
Simply in Place grew out of Dawn's desire to share lessons learned throughout her career and her work with widely recognized experts in the fields of productivity and organizational consulting. Through her experience as founder of a law firm and mediation practice, as well as being a home manager and mother of three children, she has pursued her own quest to achieve simplicity, order and balance. She now helps others achieve these same goals.
Dawn received her law degree in 1986 from the Catholic University of America. She practiced law for 10 years and has specialized in domestic and international conflict resolution since 1979. She speaks Spanish fluently.
Melinda Ostermeyer
An Organization Development Expert and Coach, Melinda Ostermeyer helps clients with professional and organizational growth through executive coaching and training, individually and in small groups. She helps clients resolve organizational and workplace issues, engage in collaborative decision-making and create strategic plans.
Melinda has extensive experience in organizational management, having directed two of the most widely acclaimed conflict resolution centers in the United States for 11 years. She received her MS in Organization Development from the Applied Behavioral Science Program of Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and completed the Executive Coaching Certificate Program at Georgetown University in 2004.
Francisco Laguna, Principal
Francisco Laguna provides consulting services in the areas of international business and litigation, alternative dispute resolution, productivity, organization, government relations and translations. Prior to launching his mediation and international consulting firms, Mr. Laguna was in private law practice from 1986 until 1995.
In the areas of productivity and organization, Mr. Laguna helps clients implement systems to tackle personal- and business-related financial and management issues.
A Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, Mr. Laguna assists separating and divorcing clients in determining the tax consequences of property transfers; the calculation of appropriate levels of alimony and child support payments; and other financial matters.
Mr. Laguna received his law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law (joint program with Georgetown University). He speaks Spanish and Italian fluently and has working knowledge of German and French.
The Martin Laguna Group
The Martin Laguna Group offers additional services.
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