Jennie Norris is the President & CEO of Stagedhomes.com and is excited to be at the helm to help take the company into the future. Her passion for the industry, success of colleagues, and dedication to the Stagedhomes mission is her daily focus. Jennie is known as a high-energy individual, with a mind that engages quickly and a passion for helping people. Her goal is to keep Stagedhomes.com as the industry leader for Home Staging education and business success throughout the world. Jennie and her husband, John, are the majority owners of the parent corporation that houses Stagedhomes and IAHSP®.
Jennie has been trained personally by Barb Schwarz, the Creator of Home Staging®, earning her ASP® Designation in 2002 and her ASPM® Designation in 2004. In 2003-2005 Jennie was the ASP® Business Coach, and in 2005-06 served as the Director of Training for Stagedhomes.com. Jennie is part of Staging features on ABC’s 20/20, NBC’s Today Show and HGTV television and online segments, national and local publications, and radio. She is the only 2-Time Winner of the Staging Award of Excellence and the first recipient of the IAHSP Spirit Award, voted on by peers in the Home Staging industry. Jennie has earned her ASP-REO™ (Real Estate Owned & Investor Properties), ASP-SRS™ (Senior Relocation Specialist) Designations, ASP-BTS™ (Buyer Trends Specialist) Designation, IAHSP-Color Basics, and IAHSP-LHS – Luxury Home Specialist Designations, and has attended and spoken at every IAHSP® Conference held to date.
Since 2005, she has presented the Accredited Staging Professional® (ASP®) Course as a Certified ASP® Course Trainer throughout North America, currently teaching the monthly webinars and ASPM® Course. She has shared with and educated thousands of real estate industry professionals and Stagers about Home Staging and has helped mentor Home Stager colleagues as a Business Coach, Trainer and colleague. In 2012, Jennie wrote the book, “Marketing Made Simple” to help ASP® and ASPM® graduates better navigate through marketing that is essential for business growth.
Jennie is also the Chairwoman for the International Association of Home Staging Professionals® (IAHSP®) International, helping to guide the Home Staging industry and providing leadership worldwide. In 2003, she started the first IAHSP® Regional Chapter and helped launch over 150 member chapters to date.
In late 2009, after running a successful Staging business in Sacramento for seven years, Jennie and her family moved to the Denver area where she launched a new Staging business and has grown the company to include five ASP® Stagers to handle business volume and clients. To date Jennie has personally Staged over 5,100 properties and over $4 Billion in real estate.
Jennie received a degree in Psychology with a Biology emphasis from UCLA and provided Marketing and Sales for large environmental engineering companies that oversaw the remediation of some of the nation’s largest Superfund sites. When she had the first of four children (a girl and 3 boys), she left the corporate world and found her way into Staging through a desire to earn income doing something using her creative talents while also giving her flexibility to raise her family. Jennie and her husband of nearly 32 years, John, currently live in Littleton, CO with their 4 children living at home or nearby.