About
Helping the Bay Area move beautifully
Changing Places began with a simple idea: change is easier with a steady hand beside you. Three decades later, we remain a concierge-level partner for families and professionals across the San Francisco Bay Area. Our team of 30+ project managers, organizers, and stylists brings deep logistics expertise and a genuine sense of care to every engagement. Many client and partner relationships span years and generations—built on trust, discretion, and consistent results. Whether you’re moving across town or across the world, we make the transition feel calm, organized, and personal.
The team behind the calm
Large enough to manage complex logistics, personal enough to care about every detail. Meet the people who plan, coordinate, and make move-in day feel effortless.
LEADERSHIP
Katie Carr
President & General Manager
Karen Leslie
Operations Manager
Erin Rice
Office Administrator
Julie Hormaechea
Project Coordinator
Phoebe Schraer
Project Coordinator
Margaret Fearey Walsh
Owner, Chairwoman
Margaret Fearey Walsh is the founder of Changing Places and a pioneer in concierge-level relocation and organizing services in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in interior design and decades of experience leading complex, high-touch projects, Margaret has built a reputation for calm leadership, discretion, and an uncommon ability to manage change with grace. Clients often describe her as “a blue blood with blue-collar work ethic”—a reflection of both her refinement and her willingness to do whatever the work requires.
After reinventing herself and launching her business in San Francisco in the early 1990s, Margaret grew Changing Places from a one-woman operation into a trusted firm of 30+ professionals serving families, executives, and advisors through life’s most significant transitions. Her personal experience navigating change shaped her belief that order creates clarity—and that clarity creates peace of mind. Today, that philosophy defines the company she built: thoughtful systems, compassionate service, and beautifully executed transitions.
Industry Affiliations
Our Green Pledge
Our goal on every project is to recycle, donate, give away and reuse wherever possible.
We do our best to divert from landfill to minimize our carbon footprint and protect our lovely planet. Managing moves and clearing homes since 1993, we’ve handled many thousand pounds of recycling, hazardous materials, mattresses, and garbage. On each and every job, we valiantly do our best to recycle with integrity and manage waste in a responsible manner.
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
— Herb Caen
Since 1993, serving the San Francisco Bay Area—
with national and international coordination.
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