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Laura Stack is a time management trainer who is known internationally as "The Productivity Pro."® She helps people leave the office earlier®, with less stress, and more to show for it!

Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., an international consulting firm in Denver, Colorado, which specializes in time management training and 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 saving and managing time, improving output, and lowering stress in today's workplaces. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates employees to improve their 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 the National Secretary of 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 truly one-of-a-kind.

Laura is the author of 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.

Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of time management, employee productivity, and workplace issues, she has been featured nationally on CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, CBS radio, NBC TV, WB News, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Working Mother magazine, Bottom Line Personal, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, 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 IBM, Qwest, Coors Brewing Company, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, the Denver Broncos, StorageTek, Wells Fargo Bank, Mobil Chemical Company, Coastal Companies, Time Warner, and VISA, plus a multitude of associations and governmental agencies.

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