ICD 2026 In-Person Conference Presenters

Dr. David Tolin is the Founder and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the Past-President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Past-President of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and a principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Tolin is the author of over 250 scientific journal articles, as well as several books, including Doing CBT and Buried in Treasures. He has been featured on the reality TV series “Hoarders” and “The OCD Project,” and has been a recurring guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

Dr. Regina F. Lark is a nationally recognized expert on emotional labor, executive function, and chronic disorganization. A historian and Certified Professional Organizer (CPO®, CPO-CD®), she founded A Clear Path, a Los Angeles–based firm specializing in neurodiversity, estate transitions, and complex clutter. Regina co-authored Emotional Labor: Why a Woman’s Work Is Never Done and What to Do About It and is a Certified Fair Play Facilitator. Through keynotes, coaching, and The Emotional Labor Podcast, she helps families make invisible work visible, reduce decision fatigue, and design brain-friendly systems that redistribute responsibility with compassion, clarity, and equity for modern neurodiverse households.

Leslie Josel is an internationally recognized student and parenting coach, founder of Order Out of Chaos®, and one of the most trusted voices on ADHD and executive functioning. For over 22 years, she’s helped parents understand how their children learn, reduce daily overwhelm, and build the real-world skills kids need to succeed in school and life. Leslie is the creator of the award-winning Academic Planner: A Tool for Time Management®, and the author of three acclaimed books, including How to Do It Now Because It’s Not Going Away. A former ADDitude Magazine columnist and sought-after global speaker, Leslie empowers parents with practical, proven strategies that work.

Katie Kilroy-Marac is a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research examines how mental health and material life intersect across cultural and institutional contexts. She is the author of An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic (UC Press), and her current ethnographic work explores hoarding as a mental disorder, public health concern, and everyday moral dilemma in North America. Drawing on research in Canada, France, Senegal, the U.S., Katie brings a comparative, practice-oriented perspective to questions of clutter, care, housing, and the emotional life of objects.

Michelle Pannor Silver is a professor and chair of the Department of Health & Society at the University of Toronto. Her research examines retirement and work identity, health information seeking, and perceptions about aging. Her first book, Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can, is about the journey some face as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose in retirement. Her second book, Aging with Agility: How Elite Athletes and Ordinary Folks Embrace Exercise with Age, examines how perceptions about aging influence exercise habits. She has published over 25 refereed articles and has taught over 40 courses on aging, health, and health research methods at the University of Toronto. She received a BA, BS, and MPP from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from the University of Chicago.

Sara Skillen, PCC, COLC, CPO®, is the Owner/Director of Education of Coach Approach Training Institute (CATI) and founder of SkillSet Coaching, in Nashville, TN. Sara is also a certified Interfaith Spiritual Director, and has served on the board of directors of the Institute for Challenging Disorganization as Director of Subscriber Relations. Sara published her book, Organizing and Big Scary Goals in 2019, and is a contributor to the ICD book, The Chronic Disorganization Tapestry. In addition to her client work, teaching, and writing, Sara continually studies the impact of awareness, observation, and inner work on creating holistic, real-life order.

Linda Samuels, CPO-CD®, CVOP™, ICD® Master Trainer, is the founder of Oh, So Organized! (1993), a global professional organizing company that helps overwhelmed individuals challenged by disorganization get unstuck and organized through compassionate, non-judgmental, personalized virtual one-on-one sessions, workshops, and publications. She is the author of The Other Side of Organized, the Professional Organizer Mentor for Revel Coach, and a blogger on organizing and life balance. Linda is an active member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) and the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD), of which she is a past president. Her media features include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and HuffPost.

Elizabeth Brink is a Professional Certified Coach, Professional Certified Neurodiversity Coach®, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner™ supporting chronically overwhelmed individuals, couples, and families. She integrates nervous system healing with neuro-affirming coaching to help clients build self-knowledge and move forward. Elizabeth specializes in stress, rejection sensitivity, disorganization, perfectionism, executive functioning challenges, depression, and anxiety among neurodivergent people. Trained by leading ADHD coaches, she serves as Senior Trainer at Coach Approach Training Institute and assists with Somatic Experiencing International. Elizabeth presents nationally and offers consultation to practitioners working with neurodivergent clients. She lives with her spouse and two children and enjoys research, baking, and jigsaw puzzles.

ADHD is a common contributor to creating and maintaining chronic disorganization. Most clients would love to have a more ordered, clear, and functional space, but struggle to make it happen. The piles feel insurmountable and progress is frustratingly temporary. Some of this stems from the direct cognitive effects of ADHD such as distractibility, forgetfulness, and procrastination. But there are also more emotional or psychological impacts of ADHD, such as struggles with ambivalence, ambiguity, and perfectionism that can stall out the organizing work. We will discuss how this can show up in your work with ADHD clients and how to navigate through these uncomfortable moments to create ongoing progress.

Dr. Sarah Butler is an Experimental Social Psychologist and a Psychology Professor at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. Her areas of expertise are related to the relationship between people and their social environments, as well as the science of teaching and learning, including cognitive processes such as metacognition and social perception. Dr. Butler teaches a variety of psychology courses, but some of her favorites are the classes on the Psychology of Decluttering, which focus on how understanding the psychological mechanisms related to challenges with clutter can inform decluttering strategies. Dr. Butler has taught courses for ICD, one on Metacognition as it relates to decluttering, and another on managing information overload, and is a current member of the ICD Research Advisory Council.