Meet Alice Maingi
Founder of Mindful Spaces and Nairobi's leading professional organiser — on a mission to reclaim space, clarity, and time for every client she serves.
Alice Maingi, MBA
Founder & Lead Organiser, Mindful Spaces
📍 Nairobi, Kenya
A Professional Approach to a Very Personal Problem
Alice Maingi has always had an instinct for order. Long before she made it her profession, she was the person in every office who noticed when the filing system broke down — and fixed it quietly before anyone else registered the problem.
Over more than a decade in human resources and office administration at leading Kenyan organisations, that instinct became a skill set. She designed onboarding systems, built document control protocols, overhauled storage rooms, and trained teams on how to maintain the structures she put in place. She noticed the same pattern everywhere: disorganised environments cost businesses and households hours every week, create low-grade stress that people have stopped noticing, and make even simple tasks harder than they should be.
Pursuing an MBA sharpened her ability to diagnose the root causes of that chaos and design structured, scalable solutions. When she turned that same lens on residential spaces, the impact was immediate and visible. Mindful Spaces was born from a simple belief: everyone deserves a space that works for them.
Today, Alice and the Mindful Spaces team work with homes, offices, and commercial spaces across Nairobi and beyond — bringing the same strategic, warm, and deeply practical approach to every project, no matter the size.
The Mindful Method
Every project — from a single wardrobe to a full corporate office — follows the same four-stage process.
Assess
Every project begins with a conversation and a space assessment. We listen deeply — to your lifestyle, your pain points, and what you actually want your space to feel like.
Design
We develop a bespoke organising plan tailored to your space and how you use it. No cookie-cutter templates — everything is built around you.
Implement
We do the work alongside you (or entirely for you). Sorting, purging, arranging, labelling — we won't leave until the system is fully in place and you love it.
Maintain
A great system only works if it's maintained. We provide a personalised maintenance guide and offer follow-up sessions to keep your space working for you long-term.
Reclaiming Space, Clarity, and Time
We believe every person deserves an environment that works for them — not against them. A space that reduces friction, frees mental energy, and makes the best parts of your life easier.
Our mission is to help individuals and organisations across Kenya design systems they can maintain, spaces they love, and routines that unlock their best thinking.
Experience & Credentials
MBA Graduate
A Master of Business Administration gives Alice the strategic framework to diagnose root causes of disorganisation and design systems that scale — not just quick fixes.
10+ Years in HR & Administration
Deep corporate experience across leading Kenyan organisations — designing workflows, building filing systems, onboarding staff, and managing complex office operations.
Founded Mindful Spaces
After seeing the same chaos and its costs in home after home and office after office, Alice channelled her expertise into a service that changes lives, one space at a time.
Our Values
Practicality First
Beautiful systems that don't work in real life are just decoration. Everything we design is tested against the question: will this still work in six months?
Zero Judgement
Clutter accumulates in every home and office. We bring warmth, not shame — our job is to understand your space and help, not to evaluate how it got there.
Sustainable Systems
We build habits and structures that outlast our visit. Our goal is that you never need us for the same problem twice — though we love when clients come back for new spaces.
Intentionality
Every item, folder, and category gets a deliberate home. When everything has a place, and everyone knows where that place is, the chaos stays gone.
“Alice transformed our entire home in just two days. I had no idea how much space we were wasting. Her systems are practical, beautiful, and they actually stick — our family home has never felt so calm.”
Carol N.
Homeowner, Westlands
Let's work together
Book a free 30-minute discovery call with Alice and let's talk about what your space could look and feel like.