"The Productivity Pro."®

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, NSA’s highest earned designation, held by less than 10% of professional speakers worldwide. Laura is a Microsoft® Corporation spokesperson and presents in 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 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. 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 the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, 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, CareerTrack speaker, radio talk show host, newspaper columnist, and 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.

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

What People Are Saying

"Laura is professional and straightforward in her business dealings and radiates enthusiasm, which has been a key in the success of dealing with our company. She connects with each person in the class such that each individual leaves with a feeling of empowerment and an ability to apply the information received."
-- Laurinda Crow, Plant Training Manager - Mobil Chemical Company

"You have received nothing short of outstanding evaluations from program participants. Your enthusiasm and dynamic teaching style are contagious and they carry your students through. You have a unique ability to adapt the information to their particular situations and present applicable examples and exercises. Students report that you present with great clarity and were always helpful."
-- Don Loberg, Supervisor - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Training Branch

"You have taken a sensitive subject and introduced it with energy, facts, and employee participation to enhance it's perception. Laura, you have accomplished our goals. Thank you for your inspiration."
-- Bonnie McGee, Employee Relations Manager - Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Central States

"Your use of personal examples was particularly helpful and showed an understanding of and empathy with the challenges we all face trying to balance our work and home lives. Your techniques of getting the audience to work together in smaller groups was especially effective in getting people to relax and interact with others. And your use of humor helped to lighten some of the more serious subjects."
-- Larry G. Newnam, CEO - American Cancer Society

"Your energy, enthusiasm, and excellent anecdotes made the event even more special than I had anticipated. As our employees were leaving, I heard such comments as "this was the best meeting I've attended" and "she was so inspiring and motivational." In fact, you received such high marks that we want to use you again for other upcoming events. And as a final thought, I wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your attention to detail and follow-up. You made it easy to work with you...high on my priority list!"
-- Linda Watson, VP Marketing - U.S. Bank

"I believe that your pre-course discussions with the session participants were one of the most important aspects of ensuring that the course you designed met the participants' expectations."
-- Shiela Cuyjet, Senior Manager - MCI/WorldCom

"The participants were delighted by your wit and sense of humor, which added that important element of FUN so often missing from a scholarly setting."
Jeanette LeBlanc, Ph.D., Chief of Diversity - United States Air Force Academy