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Laura Stack

  • Achieves Maximum Results in Minimum Time
  • Bestselling Author
  • Leading expert on employee productivity and workplace issues
Speaker Fees
Keynote: $15,000
Half Day: $17,500
Full Day: $20,000
Travel Fees
US: $1,500 flat travel fee plus hotel
Traveling From
Colorado

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in the field of personal productivity. She helps leaders develop high-performance cultures and achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time® for their employees, teams, and themselves. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., which specializes in productivity improvement in high-stress...

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Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in the field of personal productivity. She helps leaders develop high-performance cultures and achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time® for their employees, teams, and themselves. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., which specializes in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations; she is also the 2011-2012 president of the National Speakers Association. Keynoter Laura presents over 100 practical, high-energy keynotes and seminars each year on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces and homes. 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. She has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned designation given by the National Speakers Association (NSA).

Laura is the bestselling author of five books, including What to Do When There’s Too Much to Do: (Berrett-Koehler 2012) SuperCompetent (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.

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, 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. Laura is the exclusive productivity partner of Linkage, Inc., which introduces her SUPERCOMPETENT® culture to organizations around the globe.

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Laura Stack in Media

Speaker Programs

Attack Of The Productivity Suckers! The Things That Suck The Productivity Right Out Of You And How To Fight Back!
You work hard. You know how to make lists and check things off. You really want to be productive. But everyone and everything else keeps ruining your plans! So many things keep us from doing ...more
You work hard. You know how to make lists and check things off. You really want to be productive. But everyone and everything else keeps ruining your plans! So many things keep us from doing what we know we should be doing. In this funny, high-energy program, Laura Stack, aka The Productivity Pro, reviews the four main things that suck the productivity right out of you! You'll discover your biggest productivity sucker and take away some practical tools to defend yourself. ...less
How to Get More Done in Less Time... and Feel Great About It
Based on Laura's bestselling book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2004), this is her flagship time management keynote on how to be more productive at work, so you can achieve the same results in ...more
Based on Laura's bestselling book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2004), this is her flagship time management keynote on how to be more productive at work, so you can achieve the same results in less time and leave the office earlier. In this high-energy, hysterical presentation, Laura shows you how to keep technology from controlling your time; stay focused and concentrate; communicate with your team and boss to improve personal productivity; plug productivity leaks in your day; build consistent personal routines; eliminate annoying time wasters; and improve your personal efficiency. Attendees leave the program laughing and saying, "Oh my goodness, she was looking over my shoulder! Everything she modeled I'm doing!" The ideas in this innovative and thought-provoking program will allow you to reduce the number of hours you work each week without compromising output. ...less
Find More Time, How to Get Things Done and Organize Your Life
Based on Laura's book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2006), this is her work/life balance keynote that adds in the element of your personal life. Perfect for groups that want to take a more ...more
Based on Laura's book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2006), this is her work/life balance keynote that adds in the element of your personal life. Perfect for groups that want to take a more holistic approach to productivity in life, not simply work. Successful people don't want to trade personal satisfaction for professional achievement; they know high performance depends on both. Professionals must be able to balance work and family without sacrificing either. This encouraging, lively, results-oriented keynote offers key principles and techniques to help professionals eliminate obstacles to success; work smarter at work; and balance time across their lives. Perfect for audiences of busy men and women who work hard all day and go home to-the second shift-the job they don't get paid for. Learn to match time to values while juggling work, kids, chores, volunteering, errands, and household projects. Laura's ideas will help you improve your productivity at home, get more done than ever before, and have more time to enjoy your life. ...less
The Exhaustion Cure, UP Your Energy From LOW to GO in 21 Days
Based on Laura's book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2008), this is her energy speech on how to be productive when you can't pick yourself up off the couch. Lack of energy is a ...more
Based on Laura's book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2008), this is her energy speech on how to be productive when you can't pick yourself up off the couch. Lack of energy is a common complaint at work and home, and many people sleepwalk through the day, fuzzyheaded and lethargic. Nothing sounds more attractive than putting your head down on your desk for a quick nap. How can you possibly begin that big project requiring high levels of creativity and concentration? If the mere thought of having more energy leaves you totally exhausted, you need this program! Perfect for the pooped. 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. Laura boosts your energy with physiological strategies (such as diet, exercise, and sleep), behavioral strategies (such as tolerations, relaxation, and pacing), and environmental strategies (such as lighting, noise, and clutter). Discover the Energy Bandits that sap your energy every day and learn to fight back with Energy Boosters. ...less
Get More Work From Fewer People, Without Making Them Hate You or Quit
This is Laura's leadership keynote, suited for professionals who are responsible for improving the productivity of direct reports or teams and have to get more done with fewer people. Perfect for leadership development programs and ...more
This is Laura's leadership keynote, suited for professionals who are responsible for improving the productivity of direct reports or teams and have to get more done with fewer people. Perfect for leadership development programs and executive retreats. Good leaders understand that time management is not about squeezing more into the day; it's about you and your people spending time productively toward the accomplishment of organizational goals. Managing the clock isn't the answer-teaching employees to manage themselves is. If a mountain of deadlines and a staff that surfs the Internet for pleasure is keeping you awake at night, bring Laura in for guidance. This program teaches you how to coach employees to peak performance; manage meetings; use your admin more effectively; improve process efficiencies; delegate instead of do; maintain an "open door" policy while guarding against "drop in" visitors; create tracking and reminder systems; use Outlook to delegate and track assigned tasks; craft communication protocols governing the use of technology; avoid "speed bumps" in employees' paths; eliminate activities that waste time; and model effective personal productivity behavior. ...less
YOU Can Be a Productivity Pro!
This is Laura's flagship keynote that combines key concepts from her multiple books and 18 years of experience into a comprehensive 45 to 75-minute presentation. Time management, prioritization, scheduling, concentration, organization, email, workflow, processing, and ...more
This is Laura's flagship keynote that combines key concepts from her multiple books and 18 years of experience into a comprehensive 45 to 75-minute presentation. Time management, prioritization, scheduling, concentration, organization, email, workflow, processing, and systems are all covered to help your attendees achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time. Your participants will gain scores of new ideas from "The Productivity Pro" on increasing output without increasing effort and performing at their matchless best! This interactive, entertaining, high-energy program involves multiple segments customized to your group, multi-media, singing, and an audience-participation game show! ...less

Reviews

Laura Stack’s session with a group of our seasoned operations managers was eye-opening. We all learned new ways to be more productive with the tools we already have. I’ve never seen each of our seasoned, experienced operations managers so engaged in a session. Many of our senior and mid-level leaders were wowed by what they…

- Mary Pawlowski, Manager, Learning Design Piedmont Natural Gas

As a presenter, you are one of the best in the business. Your ability to use humor, personality, and maintain passion for excellence is absolutely phenomenal. Your mechanics of movement, eye contact, voice inflection, and gestures are second to none. I suspect that all rolls back to the passion you have for your chosen topic.…

- Lee Howe, Professional Development Manager, KIEWIT Energy Group

Laura is a dynamic and enthusiastic presenter. Attendees can feel her passion when she speaks. She offers creative ideas for getting things done. I know I have become more productive in the workplace due to Laura’s insightful, time-saving suggestions. She is an incredible resource who can help people be more productive not only at work,…

- Sheri Caldwell, Ohio SHRM

“Laura Stack gave us several new ideas that we were able to implement immediately within our organization, including scheduling techniques, email management, and meeting protocols. I received emails from participants following her presentation, reporting the early wins they were having with her methods.”

- Roger Blythe, VP, Business Analysis, Chick-fil-A

“You have the ability to take potentially dry subject matter and make it come alive for the attendees.”

- Don Loberg, ATB Supervisor, United States Department of Agriculture

Articles

Reduce the Unimportant to Maximize Your Productivity at Work | Laura Stack, Productivity Expert

Quotes:  “Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization…frees you to operate more effectively.” — Larry King, American journalist. “Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.” — Oliver Wendell Holms, American writer and physician. “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” —… ... read more

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