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HPL Consulting
The Human Productivity Lab is the leading telepresence consulting firm for global financial institutions, multinational telecommunications and pharmaceutical companies, and other Fortune 5000 corporations across a broad range of industry sectors. The Lab was founded by Howard S. Lichtman, a productivityfocused technologist who advises firms how to successfully deploy telepresence to enhance internal and external communications, cut costs and improve organizational productivity, and increase bottom line revenue. On the vendor side, the Lab works with both established technology brands and emerging companies to provide independent, third-party product evaluation, business strategy, sales force training, and creative marketing including corporate video production.


HPL Publishing
With over 22,000-plus unique visitors a month from over 140-plus countries, HumanProductivityLab.com and TelepresenceOptions.com rank as the top destinations on the Internet for news, research, and analysis on
the emerging telepresence industry. Telepresence Options, the Lab’s annual multi-media overview of telepresence, has over 1,500 subscribers to the hard cover Telepresence Options Yearbook, while our newsletter, the Telepresence Options Telegraph, has over 2,400 subscribers to the representing the largest identifiable audience interested in telepresence and effective visual collaboration.


HPL Sales Force Training
Arming Telepresence Commission-Driven Mercenaries is the Lab’s competitive overview of the telepresence landscape for sales, marketing, and product management organizations. While maintaining confidentiality on forward-looking technology roadmaps, customers, and other sensitive information, the Lab offers a comprehensive “open source” overview of the various telepresence systems, managed services and inter-networking solutions providers. Employing our “no-holds barred” approach on the pros  and cons of various offerings, the Lab provides teams with strategies that can shorten sales cycles. Many telepresence vendors serving the Fortune 500 have availed themselves of the Lab’s sales force training great success.

The largest Audience in the World interested in Telepresence

Telepresence Options & Human Productivity Lab – Global Mindshare in Telepresence, Telepresence Managed Services, and Inter-networking Telepresence
Visitors from over 165 Countries – The Largest Audience in the World interested in Telepresence

Human values and interests

Although the Human Productivity Lab embraces the advances in organizational communications and performance made possible by telepresence, our mission is firmly grounded by an awareness of technology’s limits, and guided by an overarching respect for human values and interests.