Sarah Jensen Clayton

Sarah Jensen Clayton is a Senior Client Partner with Korn Ferry where she currently leads the firm’s Culture, Change & Communications practice globally.

During her 20 years in consulting, Sarah’s focus has been the people side of transformation, advising senior teams on navigating M&A, restructuring, technology adoption and more while motivating, engaging and retaining mission-critical talent. Having spent equal time in human capital and communications consulting, she brings both lenses to solving client challenges.

Sarah began her career responding to constituent correspondence on Capitol Hill, then served as a Presidential Management Fellow and later worked for First Lady Laura Bush in the East Wing of the White House managing policy, projects and communications in support of her legacy.

Prior to joining Korn Ferry, Sarah was Executive Vice President and Regional Lead at United Minds, Weber Shandwick’s transformation consultancy, where she led many of the firm’s high-profile and crisis-driven engagements specific to the “Me To” and racial justice movements.

Previously, Sarah was a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and ROI Communication where her work included leadership alignment, manager enablement, internal and executive communications, employee value proposition development, employer branding, employee engagement and technology implementation, among other things.

A regular contributor to Harvard Business Review’s blog, Sarah has also been a speaker and panelist at Glassdoor.com, the Society for Human Resource Management, Ragan Communications and more.

Sarah was recently named one of 30 Women to Watch by Utah Business Magazine, is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU’s Marriott School of Management and sits on the Board of the school’s Whitmore Global Business Center.

Sarah holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University.