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Laura Stack

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http://www.theproductivitypro.com

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Business & Investing, Professional & Technical

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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 au...more 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.(less)

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Average rating: 3.24 · 139 ratings · 41 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It 3.31 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days 3.03 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Leave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time...and Feel Great About It 3.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Supercompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Super Competent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Balancing Career & Family: Time Management Strategies For What Matters Most by Laura Stack (Goodreads Author), Dianna Booher 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	The Ultimate Time Management System!: Featuring the Productivity Pro Planner by Day-Timer 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Writer's Advantage: Harness the Power of the Written Word by Laura Stack (Goodreads Author) (Featuring), Dianna Booher (Featuring), Liv Montgomery (Featuring) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Writer's Advantage: Harness the Power of the Written Word [With PDF] by Laura Stack (Goodreads Author) (Featuring), Dianna Booher (Reader), Liv Montgomery (Reader) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 a Minutes Day 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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Laura Stack said "yes" to attending the event: Complimentary Webinar: SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best date: August 09, 2010 10:00AM location: Online, The United States description: August 9, 2010 9:00 AM PST/10:00 AM MST/11:00 AM CST/12:00 PM EST For help: Becca@TheProductivityPro.com Office 303-471-7401 Based on Laura's fourth, upcoming business book of the same title (Wiley, August 16, 2010), you’ll learn how to achieve peak performance in the workplace. The new mantra is "buckle down!" These times are about a return to quality rather than quantity—all of us must learn to be competent—and not just plain, old-fashioned competent, but SuperCompetent™. In this competitive e...more
Jul 13, 2010 08:40am