Dr. Juan Ignacio Sánchez is professor and Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Eminent Scholar in the Department of Global Leadership and Management (GLaM) at the Florida International University. Earlier in his academic career at the same institution, he served as the founding chair of the GLaM department and faculty director of the Master of Science in Human Resource Management, where he designed and launched the master’s program, which is now ranked #2 by HR.com and has over 1,000 alumni, including the chief people officers of several Fortune 500 companies.
He has taught topics including organizational behavior, organizational design, staffing organizations, performance and talent management, HR effectiveness, and applied psychology training, among others.
Juan Ignacio Sánchez was vice president at Large of the Greater Miami Society for HRM (GMSHRM, now HR Miami) and was also elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is currently serving on his fifth U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel. For the Federal Government of the United States, he was a panelist in the development of a competency model for infant and toddler caregivers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (20 17). From 2011 to 2013, he was a Special Government Employee for the Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel (OIDAP), at the Social Security Administration, GSA 14.
Juan Ignacio Sánchez joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Capital for the Business School and EGADE Business School.