What Laura does...presents high-energy, high-content keynotes and seminars that help salespeople, entrepreneurs, and office professionals achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time® and increase personal productivity!

Where to use Laura...

• Sales associations and sales meetings for entrepreneurial salespeople (financial services, professional services, insurance, real estate, pharmaceutical, business owners).
• Staff and middle management level "office" and "staff" positions such as marketing, admins, IT, HR, PR, operations, purchasing, etc.
• Fortune 1000 corporate training seminars and workshops on improving personal productivity, time management, life balance, email control, and organizational skills.

Unique selling points...

• Laura is one of only a handful of professional speakers whose business focuses solely on time management and productivity topics, so she doesn't have much competition. She is very well branded and niched as The Productivity Pro®!
• Laura is the 2011-2012 president of the National Speakers Association, a membership organization of 3,000 speakers nationwide.
• Laura is a spokesperson for Office Depot, 3M, Microsoft, and she is the creator of The Productivity Pro® line of Day-Timer® planner.
• Laura is a bestselling author of four books by Random House and John Wiley & Sons.
• Laura has an MBA and was awarded the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation.
• Laura is the media's go-to person on workplace issues and has been featured on CBS, CNN, NBC-TV, NPR,Bloomberg,USA Today, and the New York Times.

Laura's a great fit any time you hear your employees or members say...

• - "I just lost half of my sales team to layoffs but still have to hit higher numbers this year!"
• - "We are so overwhelmed with work and don't have enough hours in the day to get anything done!"
• - "I have 2,000 emails in my email in-box and get hundreds more every day!"
• - "Our staff works insane hours trying to keep up with everything there is to do!"
• - "We are so stressed out and have no life balance from working too long and hard!"

The solution...IMPROVED PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY

Perfect audiences...

• Leaders who have lost staff and are expected to produce greater results with fewer people.
• Managers who need to improve team productivity and output but can't add staff.
• Salaried employees who are working well over 40 hours a week...50...60...75 hour work weeks.
• Sales professionals and road warriors with heavy administrative burdens.
• Administrative professionals trying to keep the boss and every else organized.

Clients include... Cisco Systems, KPMG, GM, Microsoft, IBM, Tyco, MolsonCoors, the Denver Broncos, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Wells Fargo, Mobil, Time Warner, VISA

Fee: One-hour keynote $10,000; 1-3 hours $12,500; 3-5 hours $15,000, plus $1000 flat travel.

Laura's Bio...

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in the field of personal productivity. She helps her clients create Maximum Results in Minimum Time® and develop high-performance cultures.  She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., which specializes 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 four books, including 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 newest book, What to Do When There's Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day (Berrett-Koehler 2012), will be released in June 2012. 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.