Laura Stack

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Leave the Office Earlier: How To Do More in Less Time and Feel Great About It
Laura’s flagship TIME MANAGEMENT keynote shows employees how to be more productive at work and achieve maximum results in minimum time. Laura reviews the top ten characteristics of productive people. Perfect for professionals who work long hours. You’ll reduce the number of hours you work each week without compromising output or sacrificing results.

Find More Time: How to Get Things Done and Organize Your Life
Laura’s LIFE BALANCE keynote offers innovative ways to blend work and family without
sacrificing either. Laura offers techniques to work smarter at work and balance time across your entire life. Perfect for those trying to juggle work, family, chores, and households, and still make time for self. You’ll discover the 8 pillars of productivity that support successful lives.

The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
Laura’s PERSONAL ENERGY keynote shows you how to be productive when you can’t get off the couch. You can know all the productivity tips in the world, but nothing will work if you don’t have the energy to give 100 percent. Perfect for the pooped. You’ll learn to fight energy bandits with energy boosters and will soon be bopping around with increased vim and vigor.

SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best
Laura’s HIGH PERFORMANCE keynote gives key talent proven methods to reach peak
performance and achieve breakthrough results. You’ll discover the six keys to unlocking your full potential. Perfect for high potentials. Laura contrasts SUPERCOMPETENT® Hero Thinking with Simply Competent Zero Thinking, so you can perform at your productive best.

What To Do When There’s Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results
Laura’s EFFICIENCY keynote teaches you to invest your time and energy into what will yield the most impactful results. Laura Stack shows how to hone in on high-value tasks, protect the time to do them, focus on their execution, and organize around the stuff that really matters. Her innovative, step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) allows you to spend less time and achieve greater results than you ever thought possible.

Summary Profile

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.