Dr. Trent Thurman

Assistant Dean & Director of Executive Education; Assistant Professor of Practice; Director, Executive Master's in Public Leadership, UT Austin

Dr. Trent Thurman is an award-winning lecturer, graduate program leader, and start-up advisor. Trent has taught organizational behavior, leadership, and global business courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been recognized for teaching excellence by the McCombs Undergraduate Business Council, the Texas Asian Business Students Association, and the MS in Technology Commercialization program. Trent has also led graduate-level global seminars to Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Further, Trent has led and transformed multiple graduate programs at three universities. As Assistant Dean & Director of the professional MBA portfolio at the McCombs School of Business, Trent led all aspects of the school’s MBA programs in Austin, Dallas, and Houston for over nine years. Under his leadership, the programs jumped to #6 in the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of part-time programs, the highest ranking in program history.