UMKC - The Bloch School

Executive-in-Residence, Visiting Instructor

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Phone: 816-235-2730  | hudsondm@umkc.edu

335 Bloch School
Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

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Doranne Hudson is an Executive-in- Residence at The Bloch School at UMKC. She teaches undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA courses in Leadership. She also teaches non-degree executive education courses and workshops to a wide variety of businesses and organizations, including Sprint, H&R Block, Fleishman-Hillard, Midland Financial, and Hallmark.

Hudson’s current research and teaching interests include organizational influence and political agility, leader self-awareness and development, networks and social capital, leading change, and leader values. As a full-time Bloch faculty member, she is also active in curriculum development, strategic marketing, and faculty selection.

Her corporate experience includes nearly 25 years of marketing and general management at The Gillette Company and Hallmark Cards and includes senior leadership positions overseeing brand management, new product development, several business units, subsidiary companies, and retail. At Hallmark, Hudson was a senior vice-president and a corporate officer, and she served on the corporate executive council and Hallmark U. K. board of directors.

Hudson received a B.A. in psychology from Duke University, summa cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard University. She currently serves on the executive committee of the UMKC Board of Trustees and on the board of directors of the Central Exchange, Kansas City Public Television, and Midwest Research Institute.

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