Keynote Speaker: Laura Stack

Laura Stack

Laura Stack
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Biography

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, Laura Stack is a personal productivity expert, author, and professional speaker who helps busy workers Leave the Office Earlier® with 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. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to improve workplace productivity.

Laura is the author or co-author of five books, including Find More Time (Broadway Books, 2006), two of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and the bestselling book Leave the Office Earlier (Broadway Books, 2004), which was hailed as “the best of the bunch” by the New York Times and listed on the June 2004 Book Sense Business & Economics Bestseller list. Leave the Office Earlier has been published in seven countries and in five foreign languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Italian. Her newest book The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days (Broadway Books) hits bookstores in May 2008. Laura is featured in three audio success series with Zig Ziglar, Denis Waitley, and Brian Tracy. Her popular monthly electronic newsletter has subscribers in 38 countries.

Laura is the creator of The Productivity Pro® line of Day-Timer® planning system, available in March 2008. 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, SELF, Me, Working Mother magazine, Bottom Line Personal, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Entrepreneur magazine, Readers Digest, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, and Parents magazine.

Laura draws from her background as a corporate manager, a University of Colorado instructor, CareerTrack speaker, radio talk show host, newspaper columnist, and small business owner. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, IBM, GM, Coors, the Denver Broncos, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Wells Fargo, Mobil, Time Warner, and VISA, 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 Treasurer of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, NSA’s highest earned designation, held by less than 10% of professional speakers worldwide. Laura is a spokesperson for 3M, Microsoft®, and Day-Timers®, Inc. She is a Certified Specialist in Microsoft® Office Outlook.

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

Publications

The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
The Exhaustion Cure - A holistic approach to increasing your get-up and go, from the productivity expert whose previous books showed people how to Find More Time and leave the office earlier®. If you want to be productive but are just too tired all the time, you need to read this book! Laura Stack combines invaluable insights and practical advice in this guide to becoming more energetic and more productive in every area of life. Stack describes the factors that contribute to low energy (the "energy bandits") and explains how to reduce their effects and build up or renew sources of positive force (with "energy boosters"). Focusing on simple changes that make a huge difference, The Exhaustion Cure presents fresh, manageable ways to:
Stop relying on caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol, and other substances to keep you going.
Manage your workload and concentrate at work.
Avoid letting negative situations or people control your thoughts and actions.
Organize your efforts and productivity around deeply held values and goals.

Twenty-eight percent of Americans miss work every year because they are too exhausted to go. The Exhaustion Cure offers everyone from overtired parents to listless retirees sure-fire, easy-to-implement solutions.

Other Publications:
Leave the Office Earlier®: The Productivity Pro® Shows You How to Do More in Less Time...and Feel Great About It

Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It

Chicken Soup for the Father & Daughter Soul

Titles

Leave the Office Earlier®: 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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

Get More Work From Fewer People Without Making Them Hate You or Quit
Based on Laura's fourth, upcoming book, 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.