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Sebastian Terry

Driven by a passion to see others achieve, Sebastian’s one-of-a-kind story has organically become a powerful catalyst for personal growth and organizational transformation. Leveraging the power of goal setting and striving as a vehicle to maximize mental wellness, individual productivity, and team engagement, Sebastian’s action-based keynote integrates individual evolution with professional development.

Shocked by the death of a close friend in his mid-twenties, Sebastian experienced a moment in his life where he asked himself a simple question, “Am I happy?” The answer was “NO,” and so, he created a list of 100things that he hoped would transform his life. For over a decade, Sebastian has been chasing down the goals on his list and teaching others how to do the same. His story has been turned into a bestselling book, his own reality show, and a renowned keynote that has inspired millions of people around the world.

The impact of time and experience has helped shape Sebastian’s journey from the pursuit of fun and exciting life goals to the realization that these strategies transfer to the mechanics of organizational health. Sebastian blends masterful storytelling with processes, research, and data from the field to help organizations gain perspective, think big, adopt a growth mindset, and be the best they can be on every level so that others can follow suit. His keynote offers equal shots of inspiration, education, and entertainment, leaving his audience with a toolkit and mindset for ongoing growth.

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Erica Dhawan

Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.

It’s 2022, the world of business is increasingly digital and work practices have changed at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wall Street Journal.

Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TEDx and for companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, SAP, and Cisco. She has degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School.

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Shelley Sather

Shelley brings an Anthropological lens to the business world as an independent Ethnographer with a deep expertise in designing studies for emerging products and technologies. She began her research career in commodities software design, just as the analogue (open-outcry) markets in Chicago were being replaced with digital solutions from outside the US. There, she developed a deep understanding of how people experience digital transformation - having witnessed, first-hand, not just the re-shaping of an industry, but an entire culture of work.

These early, niche beginnings led her to various posts across market-making entrepreneurial ventures and well-regarded innovation consultancies. For almost 20 years, she's travelled the world to develop richly human, real-world perspectives through immersive Qualitative research approaches rooted in the context of people's daily lives. Her clients range from the Fortune 100 to small ventures close to her heart. What unites this roster is a shared, sincere desire to meet people where they are.

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Jennifer Collins

Jennifer Collins leads Microsoft’s global payroll organization supporting 200,000 employees in over 100 countries. Her role encompasses setting the strategic direction for the operations teams, driving innovation and cost efficiencies through automation and technology, and ensuring global compliance.

Before joining Microsoft in January 2022, Jennifer served as the Global Process Owner for Payroll at The Coca-Cola Company where she designed and implemented the global payroll model for the company. During her tenure, she led several strategic projects including a multi-year global payroll transformation project for over 90 countries in partnership with ADP, the payroll workstream for the global deployment of Workday HCM, and a BPO outsourcing project for the global payroll accounting function.

Jennifer spent 10 years at General Electric and held finance/accounting roles in closing and reporting, portfolio acquisitions/divestitures, and financial analysis.

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Mitch Spivey

Mitch brings demonstrated leadership and broad experience as a senior leader in business areas ranging across human resources management, business operations, global strategic payroll, corporate communications, and community engagement. He has a passion for inspiring people to their best performances and successes.

In his current role as Senior Director, Americas HR Operations and Service Delivery, Becton Dickinson & Co (BD), Mitch empowers a staff of more than 100 remote employees responsible for delivering human resources support and services to all BD associates for the Americas region, which comprises 11 countries and more than 60 percent of the BD global associate population. Mitch directs and manages hire-to-retire human resources services within a complex organization for the region and leads the effective management of top-tier customer support, data operations and various other human resource systems, and operational support for benefits administration, talent management, talent acquisition, compensation, global mobility and payroll.

As a senior leader for Human Resources at a multinational energy company, Mitch led ongoing operations and transformation initiatives in the company’s Western Hemisphere, the largest operating area with an employee population of more than 30,000. He led a team of over a hundred people, optimizing relationships with outsourced service providers, managing an operating and investment budget of $39 million and overseeing an annual payroll in excess of $5 billion.

After, Mitch’s leadership and business abilities were proven while at Avenue 360 Health and Wellness. Initially hired to transform and upgrade human resources for the Houston-based health care system, Mitch was asked to become Executive Vice President for Business Operations and then interim CEO during a crucial transition period. Reporting to the Board of Directors, he spearheaded overall management of the agency during a transformative process that produced a significant increase in employee productivity and satisfaction.

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Michelle Whitfield

Michelle (Chelle) Whitfield is the Global Payroll Leader at Meta. She directs the team implementing a platform standardization, process improvement, and employee experience strategy for the payroll organization based in 5 countries. Chelle joined Meta in 2021 and prior to that held global positions with Honeywell and Electronic Data Systems. She is based in Dublin, Ireland.

During her career, Chelle has supported all aspects of Global Payroll operations, affording her a distinct vision on the future of Payroll. She has a unique perspective on how to put your BPO employees in the middle of every decision, and creatively and intelligently deploy technologies to support growth, accuracy, and compliance.

She is passionate about personal relationships and development. She prides herself on active management and making a difference in the day-to-day work of her global teams. She encourages innovation and inspires others to think differently, whilst supporting her teams’ personal and professional goals, and making time to have fun together.

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Maria Black

Maria Black is President of ADP and will assume the role of CEO on January 1, 2023. In this role, Maria oversees sales, marketing, and all business operations for the global leader in HCM technology. With sales and operations united under her leadership, she is committed to simplifying and modernizing the company’s service delivery to its clients, in a more comprehensive and holistic way.

A native of Sweden, Maria’s experience across ADP’s global portfolio has provided valuable perspective into the changing world of work and the evolving needs of the global workforce. Throughout her tenure at ADP, she has worked to provide businesses – from small business to global enterprise – the right solutions to drive success.

Joining ADP in 1996 as a sales associate, Maria learned the business from the ground up by selling payroll door-to-door. She went on to assume leadership roles in sales, client services and operations, and led the successful expansion of ADP’s HCM offerings as the General Manager for ADP United Kingdom.

Prior to her current role, Maria served as President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, where she led ADP’s sales and marketing and go-to-market activities to strengthen brand awareness and grow market share. Previously, Maria served as President of Small Business Services and Human Resources Outsourcing, where she led organizations including Small Business Services, Retirement Services, Insurance Services, ADP Workforce Now® Comprehensive Services, ADP Resource®, and ADP TotalSource® — the largest Professional Employer Organization (PEO) in the United States.

With a mission to foster diversity, equity and inclusion and ignite meaningful collaboration across the business and industry, Maria has championed corporate social responsibility efforts and serves in a number of professional organizations. Dedicated to empowering people to realize their fullest potential, Maria also plays a key role in fostering development and leadership opportunities, including acting as executive sponsor for ADP Women in Leadership (WIL)®.

Maria holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Martha Bird

Martha Bird is a Business Anthropologist working in ADP’s Global Strategy Organization. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Anthropology, Martha has helped global brands create meaningful services, experiences, and products by both questioning and responding to the social and cultural dynamics of technology.

Today, she supports innovation in global product development and strategy to ensure future generations of ADP's HCM technologies and services are informed by the wisdom of human cultures and the everyday encounters out of which new practices take shape, evolve and transform the way we work.

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Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and New York Times best-selling author focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, has two of Harvard Business Review’s most circulated, industry-changing cover articles, and his latest book, Love + Work, has been heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership in 2022. He now leads People + Performance research at ADP Research Institute, spearheading ground-breaking global studies on resilience and engagement, and his strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide.

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Tonya James

Tonya James is Vice President, Product Management for Multi-Country Payroll Solutions. Tonya joined ADP in 2020 with over 20 years of product management, strategy, and marketing experience at companies such as Novell, Interact Commerce Corporation, UPS, and Cox Automotive where she launched the company's mobile product line.

Most recently, Tonya was Vice President, International Product and Strategy at Equifax. In that role, Tonya led product management and innovation with teams across 23 different markets. Additionally, she managed development of the international business unit three-year strategy.

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Virginia Magliulo

Virginia Magliulo is President of Employer Services International. In this role, she leads the company’s international regions, ADP GlobalView, ADP Celergo and ADP Streamline. Under her leadership, she is responsible for driving strategic growth and operational excellence across all ADP offerings outside North America.

Prior to this role, Virginia served as President of ADP GlobalView. She was appointed a Corporate Officer by ADP’s Board of Directors in 2019. Virginia joined ADP in 2015 as Customer Service Director. After a short time leading the client service team, she was promoted to General Manager, ADP Italy. In November 2017, she was appointed Southern Europe General Manager, adding to her responsibility ADP’s Spain and Portugal operations.

A native of Rome, Virginia started her career as a site engineer working at Air Products for nearly four years, across London, Paris, Strasbourg, and Israel. After returning to Italy, she joined IBM where she worked for 15 years in the Outsourcing division. Hired as a Project Manager, Virginia moved up to an executive position through a series of management roles.

Her experiences growing up in Italy and abroad have fueled a strong passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, Virginia earned her scientific diploma in Paris and graduated as an Electronic Engineer from the University Politecnico of Milan. She is also is a certified Project Manager from the Project Management Institute of Washington.

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Nela Richardson

Nela Richardson joined ADP as Chief Economist in November 2020. Nela is the co-head of the ADP Research Institute and leads economic research for ADP. Previously she was Principal and Investment Strategist at Edward Jones, a financial services firm. Nela is also the former chief economist at Redfin Corp., a national real estate brokerage and technology company. Nela also served as a senior economist for Bloomberg, L.P., covering housing and financial markets, and has held research positions at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Harvard University’s Joint Centre for Housing Studies and Freddie Mac. She also worked as an adjunct finance professor at the Carey School of Business at John Hopkins University.

Nela earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland-College Park. She obtained a master’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, where she was a triple major in mathematics, economics, and philosophy.

Nela regularly provides insight on the economy, real estate trends and capital markets to policymakers, consumers, and media. Nela serves on the foundation boards for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Business Economists. She also is a member of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Advisory Committee and the Conference of Business Economists.