Laura Stack MBA, CSP

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Personal Productivity Expert

Laura Stack Quick Facts

Main Areas: Productivity
Best Sellers: Leave the Office Earlier, Find More Time, The Exhaustion Cure, SuperCompetent
Career Focus: Author, speaker, trainer, spokesperson, consultant
Affiliation: National Speakers Association, Vice President

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in the field of personal productivity. She helps leaders create high-performance cultures in their teams and organizations and achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces. She is one of a handful of professional speakers whose business focuses solely on time management and productivity topics. Laura is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to improve workplace productivity.

Laura is the bestselling author of five books, including What to Do When There’s Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day (Berrett-Koehler 2012); SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best (Wiley, 2010); The Exhaustion Cure (Broadway Books, 2008), Find More Time (Broadway Books, 2006), and the bestselling Leave the Office Earlier (Broadway Books, 2004), which was hailed as “the best of the bunch” by the New York Times. Her books have been published in nine countries and translated into six foreign languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Italian, and Romanian. She is also a contributor to two of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Laura’s popular monthly electronic newsletter has subscribers in 38 countries. She is a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist in Outlook.

Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of employee productivity and workplace issues, she has been featured nationally on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, NBC TV, WB News, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the WashingtonPost.com, the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, Entrepreneur, Readers Digest, and Forbes magazine. Laura has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot, and Xerox, and she is the creator of The Productivity Pro® planner by Day-Timer. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, IBM, GM, MillerCoors, Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, plus a multitude of associations and governmental agencies.

Laura holds an MBA in Organizational Management (University of Colorado, 1991), integrating the importance of productivity in business with employee retention and satisfaction. She is the 2011-2012 President of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, NSA’s highest earned designation.

Laura lives with her husband and three children in Denver, Colorado.

Other Programs & Highlights

Seminars:

http://www.theproductivitypro.com/s_seminars_and_workshops.htm

Getting Started With Laura Stack

• President and CEO of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a Denver-based productivity consulting firm dedicated to building high-performance productivity cultures in organizations by creating Maximum Results in Minimum Time(R) with greater profits.

• Presents over 100 keynotes and seminars internationally each year on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces and homes. Our business focuses solely on time management and personal productivity topics, teaching original principles on information overload, email management, performance improvement, and time mastery.

• Bestselling author of three books published by Random House: The Exhaustion Cure (2008); Find More Time (2006); Leave the Office Earlier (2004).

• Designer of The Productivity Pro® line of Day-Timer Planner for handheld users.

• Founder, Annual National Leave the Office Earlier day, officially listed in Chase’s Calendar of Events. Through focused productivity, workers can accomplish the results they need in less time, leave the office earlier, and get home to their lives.

• Spokesperson roles have included Day-Timer (current), Microsoft, 3M, and Xerox, as their featured speaker at conferences, content contributor on their websites, and in webcasts around the globe.

• At 21 years old, Laura was the youngest MBA graduate at the University of Colorado at that time.

• Director, National Speakers Association (NSA). Recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, held by fewer than 10 percent of professional speakers worldwide.

• Quoted or featured in CBS The Early Show, CNN, ABC, NBC, WB News, NPR, Bloomberg, CBS radio, The New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, Readers Digest, and Entrepreneur.

• Clients include Starbucks, Tyco, AT&T, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, KPMG, Nationwide, Sunoco, IBM, Ball Aerospace, Qwest, U.S. Bank, McDonald's, Nestle, EMC, Oppenheimer, Time Warner, Wells Fargo, VISA, and Lockheed Martin.