What We Do

The Moving Maven is a specialized relocation consultant providing businesses, individuals, and families with tools and tangible assistance to create a smooth relocation process.

Our Mission

Our mission is to encourage people in the process of relocation to make their move with grace, confidence and fun. We are committed to promoting a shift in perception and in people’s actual experience of the moving process, from frustration and fear to clarity and comfort. As we connect with people in geographic transition, we help them in supportive and in tangible ways to create a successful move.

Moving Maven: The Name

Moving means leaving a home location at point A and changing to a new location at point B. As a nation, we move often, and we do it well. Qualified moving van companies, smooth roads, and reliable communications help to make the moving process efficient. At the same time, moving often involves important transitions. Whether as cause or as effect, moving often coincides with major changes in our lives. Moving from point A to point B might be:

For these or any other complex relocation, it can be helpful to have a guide through the moving process.

The word Maven describes a person who shares knowledge. It means that we have been alive for long enough, and have connected with enough of life, that we have gained a certain amount of knowledge. It means that we are ready to share knowledge by connecting with people who are interested. And of course it means that we are continuously open to knowledge wherever it is to be found.

As the Moving Maven, we share our knowledge and skills to help people in the process of moving.

Who is The Moving Maven?

Sue Richardson, The Moving Maven has relocated more than twenty times, throughout the United States, Europe and Israel. Sue has moved to find a new job, to live close to friends, and to experience different cultures. Throughout her childhood Sue was a tag-along child in her parents’ moves, and several times a tag-along spouse as an adult. As an employee, Sue has participated in several organizational moves. Each move had its challenges, and every move transformed her life in some way.

Sue has also helped friends and relatives to move, sometimes by sorting and packing, sometimes by simply being a presence to keep on-task with the difficult jobs: de-cluttering or leaving a familiar community, giving away pets or books. Sue has helped prepare houses to go on the market, helped families downsize, helped friends start over after divorce.

Sue's background in home-based nursing gives her many years’ experience interviewing people, gathering information and creating a cooperative care plan. It has given her practice in following geographic directions, and introducing herself to new people and to the task at hand. She is comfortable working with people experiencing stress or change in their lives.

The combination of the nursing process, with its structured flexibility, and her varied relocation experience puts Sue in a unique position to offer tools that work. Sue knows how to listen, organize, communicate, and she enjoys sharing her skills.

As the founder of Moving Maven Sue brings experience and skills specific to moving, and the desire to bring grace and fun to others as they navigate the way through a relocation process.