Featured Speaker:

Maria Black

President and CEO of ADP

Maria Black is President and CEO of ADP, a global leader in HR and payroll solutions that serves more than 1.1 million clients across 140+ countries. Appointed in 2023, Maria serves as ADP’s seventh CEO since its 1949 founding.

Throughout her tenure at ADP, Maria has strived to provide businesses of all sizes – from small business to global enterprise – with the solutions and expertise that will help drive their business forward. From joining ADP in 1996 as a sales associate, to leading critical growth initiatives throughout many areas of the business, and most recently working to simplify and modernize service delivery to clients, Maria’s experience across the entirety of ADP’s global portfolio has given her a unique lens into the world of work and the deep knowledge to help ADP clients navigate change.

Maria serves as chair and trustee of the ADP Foundation. She is also a member of the Business Council, Business Roundtable, the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, and the American Heart Association’s CEO Roundtable. She serves on the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Colorado, Boulder.