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Laura will be delighted to present at your NSA chapter or International Convention.

For International Conventions, Laura offers her 45-minute general session keynote: How to Become a Wealthy, In-Demand Speaker: Three Things That Absolutely Work. Laura explores the words “Successful,” “Productive,” and “Professional” as they relate to speaking and shares lessons she’s learned in almost 20 years in business.

For NSA chapter programs and/or convention breakout sessions, select from one of the following presentations (click for description):

1. Cool Productivity Tools: Using Technology to Stay Organized, Efficient, and Connected
2. Organizing the Speaker’s Office: Setting up Your Systems for Success
3. Mastering the World of Professional Relationships in the Speaking Business
4. Sleeping in Your Own Bed: How to Get More Local Business and Love Staying Home!”
5. Creating a Killer Brand: the Making of The Productivity Pro®

After her presentation, Laura requests 10 minutes to update chapter member on NSA national activities and take questions.

Laura prefers to:
  • Fly in the afternoon before the meeting.
  • Be picked up at the airport and driven to the hotel.
  • Join your board or chapter members for an early dinner that evening.
  • Turn in early.
  • Present for 90 minutes to 2 hours (maximum) in the morning (before lunch).
  • Have books available for sale.
  • Use an LCD projector and wireless lavaliere microphone.
  • Fly back out that same afternoon.

Holding a date

To hold a date, please email this information to Laura@TheProductivityPro.com:
  • Contact information for your program coordinator.
  • Requested program date, schedule, and location.
  • Desired topic from the list above.
  • For international conventions, Laura will confirm attendance one year out.
  • For NSA chapters, Laura will “hold” the date until three months out. In the event that a conflict occurs and Laura can’t confirm her attendance, she will help you find a suitable replacement speaker (NSA leader, board member, or CSP).
  • Laura will only present once per chapter during her VP, President-Elect, President, and Past Presidential terms of office.

Invoicing and Reimbursement

Laura will invoice the chapter for any out-of-pocket travel expenses including airfare, hotel, meals, or ground transportation not covered or provided by the chapter.

NSA headquarters will reimburse a chapter $175 once a year for the visit of one of the NSA leadership team officers: President, President-Elect or Vice President. To receive reimbursement, chapters fax or e-mail to National an expense receipt from one of the above mentioned members and request the $175 reimbursement.

Other options

Discuss with Laura if you have;
• A board meeting you wish for her to observe during the same meeting timeframe;
• A public seminar fundraising idea with other meetings industry organizations (ASTD, MPI, SHRM, IMC, Toastmasters, ASAE chapters, etc.);
• A media opportunity (television, radio, newspapers, bookstores) to promote the chapter.

Program descriptions

1. Cool Productivity Tools: Using Technology to Stay Organized, Efficient, and Connected. Laura will bring and show-n-tell her hardware, software, accessories, gadgets, and favorite vendors/websites that make her office hum like a well-oiled machine.
  • Buy the right hardware.
  • Make sure your software syncs and runs efficiently.
  • Watch a video and audio demos, step-by-step.
  • Automate manual processes.
  • Do things more quickly, reduce keystrokes, tighten up a process, and be more efficient.
  • Discover websites that will save you time and money.

2. Organizing the Speaker’s Office: Setting up Your Systems for Success. Are you slowly drowning in a sea of paper and email? Does the sight of your messy office frustrate you? If you're disorganized, your speaking business won’t run smoothly. You will learn the systems you’ll need to succeed in the speaking business:
  • Follow an engagement through the process of booking, contracting, preparing, and    traveling.
  • Stay organized while on the road.
  • Be efficient with email.
  • Set up your client files, reference files, subject files, and records.
  • Track projects and ideas, plus book and speech content.
  • Organize electronic information, internet, and research data.
  • File and retrieve active work-in-progress.

3. Mastering the World of Professional Relationships in the Speaking Business. Having a high level of professional awareness in the speaking business requires you to be work closely with related professional associations and information sources. You’ll learn the ten commandments of professional speaking as they relate to:
  • Meeting planners, agent, and bureau relationships.
  • The meetings industry and convention industry council organizations.
  • Standards of behavior and code of conduct: tricky situations.
  • Partnerships with non-NSA entities.
  • Partnerships with NSA speakers.
  • Speaking internationally.
  • Vendor relationships.
  • Working with the media

4. Sleeping in Your Own Bed: How to Get More Local Business and Love Staying Home!” Learn marketing strategies to penetrate your local geographic market, create value for local businesses and associations, and meet your life balance goals. Learn to create value for organizations right in your own backyard. Discover the guiding principles, strategies, and tactics for penetrating your geographic area. Enjoy speaking a whole lot more…in state!
  • Learn key guiding principles to booking local business.
  • Discover pricing structures to make local work attractive.
  • Take advantage of local networking, partnership, and referral sources.
  • Find innovative strategies for marketing to local corporations and associations.
  • Receive dozens of non-plane revenue ideas.
  • Use PR to get the image and avoid the “Prophet in Your Own Land” syndrome.

5. Creating a Killer Brand: the Making of The Productivity Pro®
  • Marketing: be totally in sync
  • Image: walk the talk
  • Books: put it out to the world
  • PR/Media: have others say you’re an expert
  • Spokesperson: be hired for your brand
  • Revenue-generating partnerships: make money off your brand


Laura’s Bio

Laura Stack is a personal productivity expert, author, and professional speaker who helps busy workers achieve 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 and the vice president of the National Speakers Association. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces. She is the bestselling author of three works published by Broadway Books: The Exhaustion Cure (2008), Find More Time (2006) and Leave the Office Earlier (2004). Her newest book SUPERCOMPETENT hits bookstores in 2010. Laura is a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, and Day-Timers®, Inc and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, CNN, and the New York Times. Her clients include Cisco Systems, Sunoco, KPMG, Nationwide, and 3M. To have Laura speak at your next event, call 303-471-7401. Visit www.TheProductivityPro.com to sign up for her free monthly productivity newsletter.

Links:

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