About the Lab

About the Lab

HPL Consulting

The Human Productivity Lab is a leading consulting firm in telepresence, videoconferencing, and visual collaboration.

End Users: The Lab advises firms how to successfully deploy visual collaboration solutions to enhance internal and external communications, cut costs, improve organizational productivity, and increase bottom line revenue.

Vendors: The Lab works with both established technology brands and emerging companies to provide independent, third-party product evaluations, improve business strategy, and develop partnerships.

Finance: The Lab works with investors to provide due diligence and understand an industry moving, figuratively and literally, at the speed-of-light.

HPL Publishing – Telepresence Options

What began in 2005 as Human Productivity Lab founder Howard Lichtman’s personal blog on telepresence and visual collaboration has grown into the world’s most widely read publications focused on telepresence, videoconferencing, and visual collaboration.

The flagship Telepresence Options website attracts 30,000+ visitors a month from over 190+  countries and ranks as the top destinations on the Internet for visual collaboration news, research, and analysis.

Telepresence Options Magazine is published annually and reaches over 4,000+ subscribers in 96 countries in hard copy and tens of thousands more through conferences, trade shows, and iPad-friendly digital editions.

The free monthly newsletter, Telepresence Options Telegraph, has over 6,200 subscribers from 100+ countries.

Telepresence Options content is syndicated globally on a variety of publishing and social media platforms including: RSS/e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Scribd, and Issuu.  Our industry association on Linked In,  Telepresence Industry Professionals, has more than 3500+ members and has held events in New York City, Reston and Los Angeles.

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.