Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE Performance, Execution, Time Management & Productivity Expert

Laura Stack’s 19-year-old son, Johnny, died by suicide on November 20, 2019 after becoming psychotic from dabbing high-THC marijuana concentrates. Soon afterward, Laura started a 501c3, Johnny’s Ambassadors, to educate parents and teens about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, mental illness, and suicide. In this session, Laura will share the story of Johnny’s marijuana addiction from a parent’s point of view, a poignant chronicle of the shocking descent from innocence to eventual suicide. Before marijuana, Johnny was a computer whiz with a 4.0 GPA and a perfect math score on the SAT. After marijuana, he stole his family dog from the home and threatened to kill it without payment from his mother. With moving candor, Laura traces the first warning signs, their attempts at rehabilitation, her desperation, and his eventual demise. Three days before his death, Johnny issued his own warning about marijuana usage. Through this tragic, transparent tale, Stack hopes to use her pain to help parents talk to their children about the dangers of today’s marijuana.

Sample Objectives (customized to your audience and needs):

• Meet Johnny Stack: a Beautiful Boy, a Tragic End
• Learn About the High-Potency Marijuana Products Used by Today’s Youth
• Understand the Negative Effects of Marijuana Use on Adolescents
• Recognize Legalization Loopholes and Regulatory Needs
• Increase Awareness of Harm and Prevent Marijuana Use by Young People

There are more roadblocks to productivity today than ever before. Everyone who works deals with countless emails, constant communication, cascading deadlines, and seemingly endless meetings. These can be managed efficiently, or they can be a huge time suck. When you’re surrounded by slow-moving co-workers, you’re stuck in a traffic jam of sorts. What makes the difference isn’t individuals working harder or faster or smarter, but “teaming well.”

You have at your disposal what bestselling author Laura Stack calls “the most powerful productivity machine in existence”: your team. Her FAST model mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be, while keeping each other’s best interests at heart. Using her model, teams learn to work together Fairly, accept Accountability, apply Systems Thinking, and maximize available Technology. An interactive assessment helps you evaluate your team’s current speed and rate of acceleration.

 For your business to win, everyone must contribute. A good team can accomplish more, and more quickly, than any one Lone Ranger. Yes, there are always stars—in sports, Peyton Manning, Mia Hamm, and Stephen Curry come to mind—but they couldn’t do their jobs without the rest of the team doing theirs. By the end of this book, you’ll truly understand the abilities of your team. Team members will ask themselves, “How can I help my team go FASTER TOGETHER?” You’ll work to save everyone else time, and they’ll work to save you time. As Stack puts it, “Team up, don't slow down!”

As an MBA student, Laura Stack was inspired by Peter Drucker’s classic 1969 book The Effective Executive. But a lot has changed since it was written. And while Drucker’s advice on what to do remains brilliant, he didn’t give much detail on the how. Stack’s new book is written for the 21^st century executive, detailing precisely how today’s leaders and managers can obtain profitable, productive results by managing the intersection of two critical values: effectiveness and efficiency.

Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization—doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them with the least amount of time, effort, and cost—doing things right. If you’re not clear on both, you’re wasting your time. As Drucker put it, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Stack identifies twelve practices that will enable executives 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.

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on productivity. Stack is the president of The Productivity Pro, Inc., whose clients include Wells Fargo, Cisco Systems, Merrill Lynch, and Bank of America. She has been featured on the CBS Early Show, CNN, and the New York Times. Stack is a past president of the National Speakers Association and was inducted into its Speaker Hall of Fame.

 

Based on Laura's business book of the same title, emerging leaders and high potentials 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. Whether you're an employee, an entrepreneur, a team leader, or all of the above, SuperCompetent will give you proven methods to reach your and your team's maximum potential and achieve breakthrough results. You'll get to your productive best by mastering six keys to peak performance: •Activity: the value and importance you place on your work •Availability: your ability to master your schedule •Attention: the capacity to focus intently and concentrate on tasks •Accessibility: the ability to organize the inputs and outputs in your life •Accountability: the extent to which you take personal responsibility for your actions and outcomes •Attitude: your motivation, drive, and proactiveness

Everyone knows how to make lists and check things off. You work hard. You know what you should be working on. You want to be productive. But everything else keeps ruining your plans! So many things keep us from doing what we know we should be doing. In this funny, high-energy program, The Productivity Pro® reviews the four main things that suck the productivity right out of you! You'll discover your biggest productivity sucker and take away some practical tools to defend yourself. Objectives: 1.Use innovative technology tricks to help you achieve more, maintain focus, and stay organized. 2.Learn concentration techniques from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eminem, and Dug the Talking Dog. 3.Strike a balance between collaboration and interruptions in the workplace. 4.Discover new techniques for maintaining a consistently high energy level during the day.

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.

Ours is a non-stop, jet-propelled world. Finding balance for many seems the impossible dream. Not so. Keynote speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack shares the powerful top ten common dominators of top producers. Team members and leaders alike love the less-is-more concept. Why? Less stress. More through-the-roof productivity. Less burn out. More balanced lives. Less complaining. More creativity. If you’re ready to empower your team or organization with the kind of lightning-fueled energy and easy-to-implement strategies that will propel you right past the competition in less time with more momentum, Laura’s the speaker for you.

Leadership Productivity: The Truth Behind Execution and Strategy Leaders are bombarded with strategy. They talk about it. Meet about it. Learn about it. However, here’s the real struggle: execution of those strategies. How do you get team members to adopt new ideas, solutions, and systems? Advance your strategic initiatives and get things done? How do you turn pressure into positive action? How do you leverage time in such a way that you’re able to break new barriers and empower individuals? That’s where Motivational Leadership Speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack delivers the showstoppers: real answers to the questions and more. Easy-to-implement execution plans. Put-to-work-today solutions. Mindset-shifters. Team-builders. Using her l-e-a-d Formula, you’ll take your leadership team to the next level and beyond.