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.