Laura Stack

Productivity & Time Management Expert

Laura Stack

Productivity & Time Management Expert

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Biography

Award-winning keynote speaker and bestselling author of eight books, Laura Stack is a noted expert in employee and team productivity. She is best known by her moniker, “The Productivity Pro®.” Her engaging personality, combined with over 25 years of experience helping organizations achieve RESULTS, have made her one of the most sought-after experts and keynote speakers in her field. Funny, engaging, and full of real-life strategies that work, Laura will change mindsets and attitudes—so your team can maximize its productivity, increase market share, strengthen performance, increase sales, and get the job done right!

What makes her unique? Laura is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments.

Her latest book, FASTER TOGETHER: Accelerating Your Team’s Productivity (Berrett-Koehler), hit bookstores in January 2018. Stack is a past president of the National Speakers Association and is a member of its prestigious CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, which has fewer than 175 members worldwide. She is a high-content Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to deliver bottom-line results.

Laura has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Forbes magazine and has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, Dannon, belVita, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot, Day-Timer, Fellowes, and Xerox. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Aramark, Bank of America, GM, Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, plus government agencies such the United States Air Force Academy, the Census Bureau, the U.S. Senate, and even the IRS. Her books have been published and translated in over 20 countries. And her audiences? Love her as much for her energy as they do the solutions she presents.

On stage, Laura is a powerhouse of ideas, and more importantly, ACTION. She’s just what you need to accelerate your team’s productivity and propel your organization to all new levels! Sound like what YOUR audience needs?

Speaker Videos

The Productivity Pro

Email Time Saving Tip

On the Increasing Demands of Work and Clients

Providing Value to Your Customer

The Power of a Daily 1 Percent Improvement

Doing the Fun Stuff First

Eliminating Low Value Business Activities

Obsessive Compulsive Email Disorder

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Speech Topics

LESS is MORE: Getting MAXIMUM RESULTS in MINIMUM TIME

Ours is a non-stop, jet-propelled world. Finding balance for many seems the impossible dream. Not so. Keynote speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack shares the powerful top ten common dominators of top producers. Team members and leaders alike love the less-is-more concept. Why? Less stress.

More through-the-roof productivity. Less burn out. More balanced lives. Less complaining. More creativity. If you’re ready to empower your team or organization with the kind of lightning-fueled energy and easy-to-implement strategies that will propel you right past the competition in less time with more momentum, Laura’s the speaker for you.

SUPERCOMPETENT®: Unlocking Exponential Potential

Want to build a team with amazing potential to realize exponential results? Let Motivational Keynote Speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack help them all shift into their highest gear (without losing their balance)! Laura’s high performance keynote gives your key talent the time-proven tools and six key components they need to skyrocket their performance levels and unlock their unlimited potential.

Ready to put the superconductors in place, take off the brakes, and remove all the obstacles to incredibly high-performance success? Bring Laura in to speak at your meeting—no one can fuel super-performers quite like she can.

What to Do When There’s TOO MUCH to Do: Re-Tooling Time, Energy, and Effectiveness

The truth is there are times when we ALL feel like overwhelmed, inefficient plate-spinners. The solution? Putting the right tools, strategies, and mindsets in place to turn that experience around (and keep it from coming back.) Enter Motivational Keynote Speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack! In this action-packed session, Laura uses her step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula to teach audiences how to invest and re-tool their valuable time.

Put their energy into their highest-yielding tasks. Give themselves permission to ditch and delegate time-wasters. Focus on execution and deliver unstoppable results. What do you get? More confident, competent, high-energy, high-efficiency, super-productive contributors and teams…with a bonus: They’re happier. Work better together. Are more creative. Less stressed. The kind of things that make for incredible organizations.

Leadership Productivity: The Truth Behind Execution and Strategy

Leaders are bombarded with strategy. They talk about it. Meet about it. Learn about it. However, here’s the real struggle: execution of those strategies. How do you get team members to adopt new ideas, solutions, and systems? Advance your strategic initiatives and get things done? How do you turn pressure into positive action? How do you leverage time in such a way that you’re able to break new barriers and empower individuals?

That’s where Motivational Leadership Speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack delivers the showstoppers: real answers to the questions and more. Easy-to-implement execution plans. Put-to-work-today solutions. Mindset-shifters. Team-builders. Using her l-e-a-d Formula, you’ll take your leadership team to the next level and beyond.

Testimonials

"Laura provided my leadership team and I with a well-run and interactive session on productivity. Laura has a wonderful personality and the things she taught us were able to be put to use immediately. Our group has always been productive but Laura’s coaching made us better. She is a subject matter expert, has superb people skills and I would recommend her services to anyone!"

- Chief Security Officer, Microsoft Corporation

"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."

- VP, Business Analysis, Chick-fil-A

"Thank you for speaking to our top leaders at Westar Energy. You were outstanding! Our leaders had some excellent and actionable items that they can add to their Capability Bucket and directly apply on the job."

- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Westar Energy

"Laura is even better in person than she sounds in all her books, which is hard to imagine. Watching Laura work with our sales organization, and seeing the immediate impact she had, was overwhelming. Our top sales performers asked, ‘When can we have her back?’ Her processes and approaches to maximizing your productivity are tangible and easy to implement."

- Director, Sales Effectiveness, Kronos Incorporated

"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. The theory PWF as developed by you is sound, based on fact, and very relevant to the times we live rather than some overused, bizarre cliché like “You waste your time, you waste your life.” It was my high honor to meet you, and I look forward to seeing you again."

- Professional Development Manager, KIEWIT Energy Group

"Ms. Stack has lived up to her title as ‘The Productivity Pro.’ She has shown us a path to accomplish more, much more, with fewer hours. We’ve each saved 90 minutes a day. Our staff believes they can take us through exponential growth with very little need for additional manpower. All of this extra time gives us the opportunity to think and find other ways to improve our business plan for greater success."

- Senior Vice President of Investments, UBS Financial Services

"I am writing to thank you for the great learning experience you provided to me and over 320 leaders in my region. You have been the buzz since our meeting. Over 80% of our TMs rated you and the topic a 5, and the average score was a 4.7!"

- Wells Fargo

"You were a big hit! The evaluation form asked, 'What did you like most about the instructor?' and some of the comments were: Very interactive and everyone had fun; Engaging; Energy; She was on time, prepared, and very positive; Entertaining; Related well and adapted to the audience; Humor; Great personality and enthusiasm for the subject. It was a pleasure meeting you and look forward to working with you in the near future."

- Verizon Wireless

"You truly are incredible! You are the perfect speaker for any audience and the perfect person to partner with! You "get it", so much more than an amazing presentation. You customized to our audience, used their buzz words and incorporated whatever I asked into the presentation. You have a great brand. Received terrific feedback from anyone I spoke to today. Thank you so much!"

- ARAMARK