Lee Tom Perry (born April 29, 1951) is a business professor,

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church leader, and

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writer. He is the son of L. Tom Perry, who was a member of the

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(LDS Church) from 1974 until his death in 2015. As a young man, Perry served an LDS Church mission in the

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West

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. He was associate dean of the Marriott School of Management at

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(BYU) from 1998 to 2005. From 1991 to 1994, he served as

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of the BYU 3rd

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. From 2005 to 2008, Perry was

of the

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Roseville Mission, and from 2010 to 2014 he was a member of the general board of the LDS Church's

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. Perry wrote the words to "As Now We Take The Sacrament", which is hymn number 169 in the 1985 English language, English LDS Church hymnal.

Career

Perry holds a

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in administration sciences from

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. He entered Yale in the second year of its graduate program in management. After obtaining a Ph.D. in 1981, Perry took a position as a professor at

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. Perry was the Sorenson Family Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy at BYU. Starting in 1995, Perry and Alton Wade co-chaired a newly formed BYU service-learning committee. He was again appointed as an associate dean of the Marriott School in July 2012. On July 1, 2013, Perry was appointed dean of the

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at BYU, succeeding Gary C. Cornia. In August 2017, it was renamed to the

Marriott School of Business The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 189 ...

, with significant renames in departments and realignment of majors. This process also involved rebranding from a short form name of Marriott School to BYU Marriott.

Personal life

Perry and his wife, Carolyn, are the parents of six children. Perry wrote a biography of his father ''L. Tom Perry: An Uncommon Life, Years of Preparation, 1922-1976.'' This was part of a planned two part biography, which was released in 2019. He also has written the book ''Righteous Influence: What Every Leader Should Know About Drawing on the Powers of Heaven''.

References

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