National Speakers Association (NSA) Inducts Productivity Speaker Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE into Speaker Hall Of Fame
(Highlands Ranch, CO July 28, 2015)— In Washington DC, at a gala celebration on the evening of July 21, 2015, the National Speakers Association inducted keynote speaker and bestselling author Laura Stack, aka "The Productivity Pro," into the Speakers Hall of Fame. The NSA celebrated the careers of Laura and her four fellow inductees in a annual ceremony honoring professional speakers who have reached the very pinnacle of their profession. Laura joins a select group, including former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, President Ronald Reagan, and Stack's hero, Zig Ziglar, who first inspired her speaking career 25 years ago. Globally, there are fewer than 50 women in the Hall of Fame, and Stack has the distinction of also being the only woman in the world in the Hall of Fame with both an MBA and the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designations, and she is also a past president of NSA.
"I'm humbled to be a part of such an amazing community of professionals and am honored to receive this prestigious award," Stack said.
The National Speakers Association (NSA) is the leading organization for professional speakers. Since 1977, it has awarded the CPAE (Council of Peers Award for Excellence), the lifetime award for speaking excellence and professionalism, to no more than five members annually. Inductees are "evaluated by their peers through a rigorous and demanding process. Each candidate must excel in seven categories: material, style, experience, delivery, image, professionalism, and communication" The award is not based on celebrity status, number of speeches, amount of income, or volunteer involvement.
In 1992, Stack founded The Productivity Pro, Inc., a company dedicated to helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments. Laura Stack's keynote speeches and seminars have helped associations and large corporations improve output, increase speed in execution, and save time in the office. A resident of the Denver metro area and mother of three, she's constantly busy, traveling two million miles in her lifetime and averaging one hundred speaking engagements a year with clients as diverse as Microsoft, 3M, Dannon, GM, and Wells Fargo, the U.S. Senate, and the Census Bureau. Stack maintains a weekly blog and newsletter, and her columns appear regularly in The Business Journal and LinkedIn. The latest of her seven books, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time (Berrett-Koehler), hits bookstores in January 2016.
Stack says, "I greatly appreciate my peers' recognition of my career-long efforts to help professionals save time and increase their productivity and performance"