Laura Stack

Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of employee productivity and workplace issues, Laura Stack has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years, helping leaders create high-performance cultures in their teams and organizations and achieve "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.

A seasoned speaker, she has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today's workplaces to audiences around the country since 1992. She is one of a handful of professional speakers whose business focuses solely on time management and productivity topics, and she delivers high-energy, high-content presentations that educate, entertain, and motivate professionals to improve workplace productivity.

Stack is the best-selling author of five books, including What to Do When There's Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day (Berrett-Koehler 2012); 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 best-selling 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. She is also a contributor to two of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books and her popular monthly electronic newsletter has subscribers in 38 countries.

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, WashingtonPost.com, The Chicago Tribune, O magazine, Entrepreneur, Readers Digest, and Forbes magazine. Stack has also 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, along with a multitude of associations and governmental agencies.

Laura Stack holds an MBA in organizational management with a focus on integrating the importance of productivity in business with employee retention and satisfaction from the University of Colorado. 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 designation.