Sarah Isabella Leberman MNZM is a New Zealand sport management academic, as of 2012 is a full professor at the Massey University.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

After a 1999 PhD titled 'The transfer of learning from the classroom to the workplace: a New Zealand case study ' at the Victoria University of Wellington, Leberman moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.^[1][10][11]

In 2019, Leberman won the NEXT Woman of the Year in the Sport category.^[12]

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Leberman was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women, sport and tertiary education.^[13]

In 2020 Leberman received the Zonta New Zealand Woman of the Biennium Award.