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 School of Public
Health. His work centers on leadership in high stakes, high stress situations. McNulty
also works with the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at
the Harvard Chan School
In addition to his work with the NPLI, McNulty teaches in executive education
programs as the Harvard Chan School, Harvard Medical School, Boston University’s
Questrom School of Business, the University of California/San Diego, and the UVA
Darden School of Business. He has led executive trainings in North and South
America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He has spoken at conferences and
symposia worldwide.
He is the
co author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters
Most (PublicAffairs, 2019) and 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 book Your Critical First 10 Days as a Leader (O’Reilly/Safari, 2015
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.
McNulty is a widely published business
author and researcher, McNulty writes a
regular online column for Strategy + Business He has written multiple articles for the
Harvard Business Review ( HBR)HBR), Sloan Management Review , CNN.com , and others.
His HBR cases have been anthologized through the HBR paperback series and have
been used in business education curricula in the United States and as far away as
France and the Philippines . McNulty is a member of the Leadership Communications
Council at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Previously, McNulty 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.