Laura Stack, MBA, CSP is a productivity expert who helps people leave the office earlier®, with less stress and more results to show for it. Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a Denver-based training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. She is one of a handful of professional speakers whose business focuses solely on time management and productivity topics. Since 1992, Laura has taught her original principles on improving output, lowering stress and saving time in today's workplaces. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker who educates, entertains and motivates people to improve personal productivity.

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 also on the board of directors for the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation. Laura is a Microsoft® Corporation spokesperson and presents on their behalf at conferences. She is a Certified Specialist in Microsoft® Office Outlook. Laura was awarded a Board Approval in Productivity Improvement from the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC). Laura is truly one-of-a-kind!

Laura is the author or co-author of five books, including 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 works also include Find More Time (Broadway Books, 2006) and two of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Her newest book Up Your Energy! will hit bookstores in 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.

Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of employee productivity and workplace issues, she has been featured nationally on CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, CBS radio, NBC TV, WB News, the New York Times, USA Today, 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, a CareerTrack speaker, a radio talk show host, a newspaper columnist and a small business owner. Her client list reads like a Who's Who of recognizable 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.

• "Leave the Office Earlier®: How to Get More Done in Less Time...and Feel Great About It - Based on Laura Stack's bestselling book of the same title, 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, this work/life balance keynote 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.
  
  
• The Exhaustion Cure: UP Your Energy From LOW to GO in 21 Days - This "energy" speech deals with 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! 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 - 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. 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.