Laura Stack

Laura Stack is a productivity expert, bestselling author, and Hall of Fame speaker known as The Productivity Pro who has spent over 25 years helping leaders and organizations achieve maximum results in minimum time. She is the president and CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc. and has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and associations worldwide.

America’s Premier Expert on Workplace Productivity

Stack is the author of eight books on productivity, time management, and performance, including What to Do When There’s Too Much to Do, Doing the Right Things Right, and Leave the Office Earlier. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and on CNN and Bloomberg. She is a past president of the National Speakers Association and has been inducted into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, placing her among the top speakers in the profession.

Turning Overwhelmed Teams Into High-Performance Machines

Stack’s keynotes deliver research-backed, immediately actionable strategies for eliminating time wasters, streamlining workflows, improving team execution, and helping leaders focus on the activities that drive the greatest results. Her presentations are ideal for organizations battling information overload, meeting fatigue, and the constant distractions that erode productivity. She helps teams stop doing more and start doing what matters most.

What to do When There’s Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day

Everyone is so overwhelmed with demands today, it’s not uncommon for professionals to work 60 hours a week any more. You’ll learn how to scale back—reduce, reduce, reduce is Laura’s mantra. Laura shows how you to separate the productive wheat from the nonproductive chaff, hone in on high-value tasks, protect the time to do them, and focus on their execution. You’ll find dozens of ways to shrink your to-do list, calendar commitments, distractions, interruptions, information overload, inefficiencies, and energy expenditures. You’ll see how you can be more efficient, organized, and focused, so you can achieve maximum results in minimum time, get out of the office earlier, and get home to the people you love.

Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Leader Spends Time

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. This keynote, based on Laura’s book of the same title, identifies twelve practices that will enable leaders to be effective and efficient, grouped into three areas where leaders spend their time, called 3T Leadership: Strategic Thinking (Business), Teamwork (Employees), and Tactics (Self). For each practice, Stack offers advice from her 25 years in the trenches, working with thousands of leaders globally. You’ll receive scores of new ideas on how you, your team, and your organization can boost productivity.

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 schedule, tasks, devices, follow-ups, and email.

YOU Can Be a Productivity Pro Teambuilding Gameshow

Using a fun, fast-paced, game-show format, your audience members will compete over the bragging rights to the title “THE (your meeting here) PRODUCTIVITY PRO!” Using whole-audience techniques and multi-media, everyone will be involved, all the while building stronger teams and learning what it takes to be productive in today’s busy workplaces. You can expect musical instruments, videos, songs, audience interaction, shouting, prizes, and attendees up on stage. But it’s not ALL fun and games! Great content is added to the fun—all customized around the performance focus areas YOU want to highlight for your meeting.

SUPERCOMPETENT®:  The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best

In this keynote, emerging leaders, high potentials, and new leaders will learn how to achieve peak performance in the workplace. In this competitive economy, just being able to do your job is no longer enough. Competence is expected; you’ve got to be SuperCompetent to get an edge. SuperCompetent will give you proven methods to reach your maximum potential and achieve breakthrough results. You’ll get to your productive best by mastering six keys to peak performance.