Kathleen Perley

Kathleen Perley is an Instructor in Management and Advisor on AI Initiatives at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. She focuses on bridging AI technology with business leadership, teaching courses on AI strategy and implementation. As an AI Advisor to Deans, she shapes AI education and advises on faculty training. She holds a B.S. in Linguistics and Communication Science from Texas Christian University and is pursuing an MBA at Rice.

Her professional journey includes founding DemystifAI (AI consulting firm) and Decode (digital agency acquired by Unlock Health). As Chief Innovation Officer at Unlock Health, she led AI integration and policy development. Her research emphasizes human-centered AI adoption, informed by her Fulbright Scholarship research in Madrid on bilingual education through phonetics/phonology.

Key achievements: CEO/Founder of DemystifAI; $17M revenue scaling Decode; AI policy leadership in healthcare. Awards include Fulbright Scholar recognition.