Eric J. McNulty holds an appointment as Associate Director and Program Faculty at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and as an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Associate Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard Chan School. His work centers on leadership in high-stakes, high-stress situations. He teaches in multiple executive education programs at Harvard and MIT and graduate-level courses on leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution at Harvard. He is the co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most, which shows you how to be a better leader through crisis and change.

McNulty is the principal author of the NPLI’s case studies on leadership decision making in the Boston Marathon bombing response, innovation in the response Hurricane Sandy and the professional/political interface in the Deepwater Horizon response drawing upon his firsthand research as well as extensive interviews with leaders involved in the responses.

He is the co-author, along with Dr. Leonard Marcus and Dr. Barry Dorn, of the second edition of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration (Jossey-Bass, 2011). He is co-author of a chapter on meta-leadership in the McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook (2012) and the e-books Your Critical First 10 Days as a Leader (O’Reilly/Safari, 2015) and Three Critical Shifts for the Evolving Leader (O’Reilly, 2016). He was named a Trust Across America Top Thought Leader in Trust in 2018.

McNulty is a widely published business author, speaker, and researcher. He writes a regular online column for Strategy + Business and contributes to O’Reilly Media. He has written multiple articles for the Harvard Business Review (HBR) as well as articles for Harvard Management Update, Strategy and Innovation, Marketwatch, Sloan Management Review, and Worthwhile magazine among others. His HBR cases have been anthologized and have been used in business education curricula in the United States and as far away as France and the Philippines.

Eric has spoken at conferences and other events, developed content, led trainings and workshops, and facilitated meetings for organizations such as Accenture, the Arthur Page Society, BeDo, Boston University Questrom School of Business, Clean Gulf, Coca-Cola, Columbia Business School, the Conference Board, the Executive Council of New York, Harvard Business Publishing, HMG Strategy, Humana, IBM, International Association of Emergency Managers (Candada), International Institute for Analytics, International Rescue Committee, Nuance, Oil Spill Response Group, O’Reilly Media, Premier Farnell, SAS, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Transportation Security Administration, United States Secret Service, University of California/San Diego Health, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, UPS, Virtuoso, and other major organizations subject to confidentiality restrictions.

Previously, McNulty was Managing Director for Conferences for Harvard Business Publishing. Prior to that, he held management and communications roles in the private sector. McNulty holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (with honors) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Arts degree in Leadership from Lesley University. McNulty is an active supporter of holistic approaches to conservation through his Elephant Wisdom Project. He is a former board member of The Family Center (now The Parenting Journey) in Somerville, MA and former member of the Executive Council at Boston PBS affiliate WGBH.