Eric J. McNulty is a noted authority on leading through crisis and change. He is the co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most (PublicAffairs, 2021). He is author of e-books on leadership and more than 200 bylined articles in respected publications such as Harvard Business Review, Leader to Leader, and Sloan Management Review. He is also co-author of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration (Jossey-Bass, 2011).
McNulty serves as Associate Director and Program Faculty at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University and Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He teaches leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution at the Chan School and in multiple executive/physician education programs at Harvard (including Harvard Medical School), MIT, the University of California San Diego Health, and UMass Medical Center.
McNulty has spoken at conferences and other events, developed content, led trainings and workshops, and facilitated meetings globally for organisations such as Accenture, Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, the Conference Board, Harvard Business Publishing, IBM, Microsoft, SLB, UPS, and other major organisations subject to confidentiality restrictions.
He is a member of the Leadership Communications Council at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, the Advisory Council of Crisis Response Journal, and the Future Vision Committee at Disaster Recovery Institute International. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Manomet Conservation Sciences and on the Board of Directors for Massachusetts for Elephants.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics (with honours)
Master of Arts in Leadership

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