Eric McNulty

Expert on Leading in High-Stakes, High-Stress Situations

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Eric McNulty Biography

Eric J. McNulty is Associate Director and Program Faculty at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University and an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work centers on leading 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 (PublicAffairs, 2019). McNulty is also -author Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration (Jossey-Bass, 2011). He is author of 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).

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 to superstorm 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.

McNulty is a widely published business author, speaker, and researcher. He was named a Top Thought Leader in Trust in 2018 by Trust Across America. He has written multiple articles for the Harvard Business Review (HBR), strategy+business, Sloan Management Review andmany others. His HBR cases have been anthologized and used in curricula in the U.S. and as far away as France and the Philippines.

McNulty 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, Boston University Questrom School of Business, Clean Gulf, Coca-Cola, Columbia Business School, the Conference Board, Harvard Business Publishing, Humana, IBM, International Institute for Analytics, Microsoft, Nuance, Oil Spill Response Group, O'Reilly Media, Premier Farnell, SAS, Schlumberger (SLB), 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 in Economics (with honors) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Arts in Leadership from Lesley University.

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. McNulty is an active supporter of holistic approaches to conservation through his Elephant Wisdom Project. He is a member of the board of directors of Massachusetts for Elephants. 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.

Eric McNulty Speaking Topics

  • Leading Through Crisis and Change

    Guiding a team or organization through a crisis begins with becoming comfortable with ambiguity that you, you, your team, or your board off kilter. But effective crisis leaders know how to build islands of certainty that restore calm and foster resilience through adversity.

  • The Deeply Human, Deeply Social Future of Work

    While the bells-and-whistles of the latest technology get the most attention, people we are a social species with instinctual urges to collaborate. As people team up to tackle ever-more complex problems with greater urgency, organizations will transition to structures optimized for fluidity and adaptive capacity. Leading such organizations will require the ability to sense-and-respond rapidly amidst ambiguity and unpredictability.

  • Getting “Smarter Than Your Brain”

    Eric uses accessible insights from neuroscience and psychology to help leaders understand how to optimize their performance and that of their teams. Participants leave better understanding themselves and how to work with the amazing capabilities of their brains while avoiding common pitfalls.

  • Communities of Leading

    Facing ever-more complex challenges, how we think about leading needs to change as well. Drawing on extensive research on leading through crisis and change as well as compelling examples, Eric reveals the power of humans' natural collaborative instincts.

Eric McNulty Videos

  • Overcoming the Faults in our Default Thinking
    From our earliest days, we are socialized as competitive individuals. Solving our most complex challenges, however, requires collaborative...

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Eric McNulty is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Leading Through Crisis and Change, The Deeply Human, Deeply Social Future of Work, Getting “Smarter Than Your Brain” and Communities of Leading. The estimated speaking fee range to book Eric McNulty for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Eric McNulty generally travels from Cambridge, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Leonard Marcus, Mimi Donaldson, Christine Cashen, Connie Podesta and Christopher Voss. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Eric McNulty for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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