About Laura Stack, MBA, CSP
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, has consulted with
Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in
the field of personal productivity. She helps
leaders create high-performance cultures in
their teams and organizations and achieve
Maximum Results in Minimum TimeŽ. She is
the president of The Productivity ProŽ, 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 books,
including SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to
Perform at Your Productive Best (Wiley,
2010); 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. Her books have been
published in seven countries and translated into
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
Microsoft Certified Application Specialist in
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, Entrepreneur, Readers Digest, and
Forbes magazine. Laura has been a
spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft,
Office Depot, and Xerox, and she is the creator
of The Productivity ProŽ planner by Day-Timer.
Laura is the exclusive productivity partner of
Linkage, Inc., which introduces her
SUPERCOMPETENT culture to organizations around
the globe. Her client list includes top
Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks,
Wal-Mart, IBM, GM, MillerCoors, Lockheed Martin,
Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, 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 2011-2012 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.
