Sara Jansen
Perry

Dr. Sara Jansen Perry is a Professor of Management in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. She oversees the Human Resource Management major and teaches classes related to conflict resolution, negotiation, talent acquisition, employee relations, and the future of work, at the Executive, MBA, and Undergraduate levels. She is committed to fostering many competencies in her students, but a recent emphasis is in cross-cultural competencies. She implements global collaborative projects between her students and others around the world each semester, and she has been selected to teach cross-cultural business courses in Sydney, Singapore, and Iceland for upcoming Study Abroad trips. In recognition of these efforts, Dr. Perry won the Inaugural Hankamer School of Business Global Engagement Award (2025) for facilitating the highest improvement of cross-cultural intelligence among her students.​

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In her research, Dr. Perry studies employee stress and well-being, with an emphasis on hybrid and remote work, work breaks, leadership, and marginalized populations in the workforce. She has published articles in numerous top journals, including Journal of Management and Journal of Applied Psychology.  Dr. Perry was recognized for her research productivity in 2023 in receiving the Hankamer School of Business Brent Clum Research Award among tenured faculty, and in 2017 in receiving Baylor’s tenure-track researcher of the year award. 

 

Dr. Perry has been consulted by the New York Times, Washington Post, Fast Company, CNN Newsource, and other media outlets and both private and public sectors with regard the broad roll-out of remote work in response to COVID-19 and the subsequent return-to-office mandates. She has also consulted with many organizations on strategic human resource management initiatives related to her research topics.

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Among her many guest speaking engagements, Dr. Perry has been invited to speak at the:
 

• AACSB Deans Conference

  • "Mastering Work-Life Balance"

• British Army Remote Leadership Conference, Royal Air Force Tedder Academy of Leadership, and United Kingdom Prime Minister Task Force on COVID-19

  • "Human Impact on Working and Leading Remotely"

• University of Texas-Dallas Center for Brain Health and Inter-American Conference on Social Security

  • "Research-Informed Recommendations for Thriving in Remote and Hybrid Work"

• Millennium Alliance Chief Human Resource Officers Assembly

  • Thought Leader on Employee Well-Being

 

She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston, and she has a Bachelors of Science from the University of Missouri in Computer Science.