Laura Stack

Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, and Noted Performance and Productivity Expert, also known as The Productivity Pro!

Expert on

  • Productivity
  • Peak Performance
  • Time Management/Self-Management
  • Life Balance
  • Teamwork / Teambuilding
  • Leadership

Fee Range

$15,000–$20,000

Travels from

CO, US

Biography

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is known internationally by her moniker “The Productivity Pro.” Stack is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on employee and team productivity. She is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments. Stack was the 2011-2012 President of the National Speakers Association.

For nearly 30 years, Laura Stack’s keynote speeches and seminars have helped associations and Fortune 1000 corporations improve output, increase speed in execution, and save time in the office. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to deliver bottom-line results. Stack is a member of the prestigious CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, which has fewer than 200 members worldwide), and has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation.

Laura Stack is the bestselling author of seven books published by Random House, Wiley, and Berrett-Koehler, including her newest, FASTER TOGETHER: Accelerating Your Team’s Productivity (Jan. 2018). Her books have been published in more than 20 foreign editions, and she is a featured columnist for the American Business Journal, LinkedIn, Time Management, and Productive magazines. Stack has produced more than 50 online training programs.

Laura Stack has been featured nationally on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Forbes magazine. Stack has been a spokesperson for Fellowes, Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot, Day-Timer, and Xerox. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Aramark, Bank of America, GM, Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, plus government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Air Force Academy, the Census Bureau, the U.S. Senate, and the Department of Defense.

Speaker Videos

WORKING FROM HOME: IMPROVING PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY IN A COVID WORLD

Our world has changed-have your employees’ productivity habits changed with it? Do they work effectively from home or just TELL you they do? Do they feel “busy” but are getting less done, trying to adjust to the new reality?

Effective personal productivity and time management skills are more important today than ever before:
• Without the “drop-in” meetings and in-person meetings, we have a LOT more email flying around, and scheduling can become challenging.
• People are “Zoomed-out,” now that the novelty has worn off, and our virtual meeting skills need serious improvement.
• Employees are attempting to stay focused on important work in an environment of distractions, often with children and pets running around.
• Expectation and boundary setting are critical to our concentration and focus on critical deliverables.

Your employees aren’t likely going to raise their hands and voluntarily tell you their performance and productivity are suffering. Give them the tools they need from the Productivity Pro(R), who has worked from a home office while raising children for nearly 30 years.

WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE'S TOO MUCH TO DO

Leaders are so overwhelmed trying to balance the day-to-day operational responsibilities of their jobs, as well as find time to work with their teams and think about strategic initiatives, they struggle with time management and life balance. It’s not uncommon for leaders to spend 80 hours a week in the office any more. Enter productivity. If you can figure out how to be more efficient, more organized, and better focused, you can get greater results in less time and get out of the office earlier and home to the people and life you love. There is no need to sacrifice your personal life on the altar of your career when you are productive.

BECOME AN EMAIL CRACKER-JACK WITH LAURA STACK (USING MICROSOFT OUTLOOK)

 

Microsoft Certified Outlook Expert Laura Stack is the Queen of Email Productivity. -You’ll find solutions for some of your most challenging Outlook questions! Come to this session if you’ve ever asked yourself, “What do I do when I…”

 

  • Already have an appointment on my calendar and someone sends another email related to it. How do I keep from copying/pasting all the time?
  • Want to copy an appointment from one day to another in one click?
  • Update the Start Date on a Task without opening the Task?
  • Have a Task already created, and then I get an email with additional instructions about it. How do I merge the two?
  • See my calendar while I’m in an email, so I don’t have to keep switching back and forth?
  • Am right in the middle of typing an email and promise someone I will do something. How can I make a reminder about that while I’m creating the email so I don’t forget?
  • Have thousands of emails in my inbox (I’ve been using my inbox like a filing cabinet) and am feeling overwhelmed?
  • Want to put an appointment from my calendar directly on to someone else’s calendar without sending a meeting invitation?
  • Sent someone an email and don’t want to forget to follow up or try to remember to get the answer. How can I have the system notify me?
  • Have a question to ask a group of people, and I want them to “vote” without getting a million “Reply All” answers.
  • Want to keep my inbox empty but can’t keep up? I need a new processing methodology and email organizing system!

THE SEVEN DAILY HABITS OF HIGHLY PROFITABLE SALESPEOPLE

What separates an average salesperson from a high-performing salesperson? They spend more time on activities that produce sales and less time on those that don’t. Simple concept? Yes, but difficult to implement in reality, because most traditional sales training doesn’t focus on productivity, and “old school” time management techniques have little application for the salesperson. In this session, you’ll learn “real world” methods to manage your time from Laura Stack, award-winning productivity speaker and bestselling author. You’ll discover how highly successful salespeople:

 

  1. Do more of the activities that drive sales (actively selling, prospecting or closing sales)
  2. Do fewer non-income producing activities (delegate, automate, reduce).
  3. Integrate their various tools seamlessly (sync your in-house CRM, email, handheld, tablet, laptop).
  4. Automate administrative activities (manual processing, filing, moving)
  5. Maintain flawless organization systems (effective time, email, and information management).
  6. Follow-up with impeccable accuracy and predictability (workflow systems that track open loops and pending items)
  7. Work efficiently from anywhere (road warriors, mobile office, down time usage)