About Laura Stack, MBA, CSP
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, Laura Stack 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. She is a high-energy, high-content
speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates
professionals to improve workplace productivity.
Laura is the author or co-author of five books,
including Find More Time (Broadway Books, 2006),
two of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul
books, and 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. Her newest book The Exhaustion Cure: Up
Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days (Broadway
Books) hits bookstores in May 2008. Laura is
featured in three audio success series with Zig
Ziglar, Denis Waitley, and Brian Tracy. Her
popular monthly electronic newsletter has
subscribers in 38 countries.
Laura is the creator of The Productivity Pro®
line of Day-Timer® planning system, available in
March 2008. 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, SELF,
Me, Working Mother magazine, Bottom Line
Personal, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook,
Entrepreneur magazine, 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 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
Treasurer 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
a spokesperson for 3M, Microsoft®, and
Day-Timers®, Inc. She is a Certified Specialist
in Microsoft® Office Outlook.
Laura lives with her husband and three children
in Denver, Colorado.
