Courtney

A lifelong resident of the West Michigan area, Courtney is currently working on her degree in Advertising and Public Relations at Grand Valley State University while working as a marketing intern for The Stow Company. Constantly busy with several student organizations and as a terrible dawdler, she can usually be found sprinting across campus five minutes after class has started. Courtney’s interests include carbs of any size or shape (pasta preferred), reading, spoiling her parents’ dog Olive rotten, and clarifying what public relations actually is to her relatives. A self-proclaimed packrat, her greatest organizational challenge is her bedroom closet (which is so bursting with odds and ends that it currently refuses to close).

Mike has been part of The Stow Company marketing team since 2005. He grew up along the shores of Grand Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan and graduated with a marketing degree from Calvin College in Grand Rapids. Now settled in West Michigan, Mike and his wife are new parents and enjoying all the blessings and challenges that come with homeownership and a raising a young child. Outside of work, Mike enjoys spending time with his wife and friends, being involved at his church, exploring new and emerging technologies, and playing golf and hockey. Mike's greatest organizational strength is his ability to keep control over his e-mail inbox.

With 13 years experience marketing products that create cleaner and more attractive spaces, Angela believes a stress-free life can be achieved with good planning and good Chi. She manages to find a healthy balance between her career, marriage, children, and all of their school and extra curricular activities while maintaining an organized home and life. Along with her husband, they are on a quest to be better environmental stewards and are teaching their children about the importance of living sustainably and responsibly. She is an avid reader of home magazines, enjoys watching HGTV and DIY network (thank goodness for TIVO), spending time with family and friends, and participating in outdoor activities such as hiking, golfing, biking, swimming, and fishing (as long as someone else baits the hook). Her greatest organizational challenge is keeping the paper clutter that consists of piles of schoolwork and incoming mail under control, while also having the strength to part with (and recycle, of course) the ever-growing stacks of magazines.

With over 25 years of experience designing furniture and environments, Jon is the design manager at The Stow Company. He believes that a well designed space can strongly influence the interaction within. His interests include travel by canoe, dark warm coffee, quick cold water trout, old Volkswagens, cameras and times in the northern woods. His greatest accomplishments are his two children. “When I see them walking through the house singing a song to themselves, I feel like my wife and I are doing something right,” he says. His greatest organizational challenge is to create an environment that enables his kids to be creative and free without trashing the place.

Rick enjoys playing sports (especially golf), landscaping, local politics, and spending as much time with family and friends as possible. He is easily irritated by people who drive under the speed limit in the passing lane on the highway. He loves 80’s music & all types of food, ranging from Mexican to Polish and everything in between. Rick finds his organizational strength in organizing his garage; he claims to actually enjoy it—that’s something that not many people can say.