ADP Research

Mary Hayes earned her doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was focused on qualitative, quantitative, and psychometrics methodology, with additional work in survey research methodology. Both of Mary's degrees focus on the psychology of people and how these people flourish through positive psychology.

Beginning in 2005, she worked with the Marcus Buckingham Co. in the development of the StandOut Assessment and other StandOut tools and resources, assuming the role of senior researcher in 2015 and research director of People and Performance in 2018.

Mary's research focuses on engagement, turnover, knowledge worker performance, and workplace teams. She has designed reliable and valid tools to help people get more out of their work experience. As a practitioner-scientist, she taps the best of both worlds to make a difference for knowledge workers, focusing on sound research to help organizations understand the relationships between employee engagement and performance, engagement and turnover, and other relevant workplace issues.

Prior to her time with Marcus Buckingham, Mary served as the innovation and impact director for HUMANeX Ventures, and data management director at Creighton University School of Pharmacy. She has provided consulting services in the fields of human resource management and human performance since 2003.