About Laura Stack, MBA, CSP
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, 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. Laura is a high-energy, high-content
speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates
professionals to improve workplace productivity.
Laura is the bestselling author of four
published books. Her newest book,
SUPERCOMPETENT, will hit bookstores on
August 9, 2010 (John Wiley & Sons). Her other works
include The Exhaustion Cure (Broadway
Books, 2008), Find More Time (Broadway
Books, 2006), and the bestselling 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. She is also a
contributor to two of the popular Chicken
Soup for the Soul books. Laura’s popular
monthly electronic newsletter has subscribers in
38 countries. She is a Certified Specialist in
Microsoft® Office Outlook.
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, O Magazine, SELF, Me, Working
Mother magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, Readers
Digest, Woman’s Day, and Parents magazine. Laura
has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, and
Day-Timers, and she is the creator of The
Productivity Pro® line of Day-Timer® planning
system. 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
Vice President of the National Speakers
Association (NSA) and is the recipient of the
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
designation, NSA’s highest earned designation.
Laura lives with her husband and three children
in Denver, Colorado.
