Eric McNulty

Eric McNulty gets around. From a childhood in which he moved frequently to a career crisscrossing the globe, Eric has developed a deep desire to explore and understand people, places, and ideas. He has worked for and with some of the world’s top brands. He has experience with large global organizations and spunky start-ups across a range of industries and endeavors: aviation, education, energy, environmental, health, humanitarian, retail, travel, and more.

Through those experiences, Eric has had the opportunity to get to know CEOs, front-line workers, and many in between. He has worked with everyone from fashion designers to fighter pilots, executives to artists.

As a speaker and author, Eric draws on his curiosity and breadth of experience to engage with his audience. He is a wide-ranging thinker and natural storyteller. Eric builds from one subject to the next, finding the connections, often unseen, between various areas of study and practice. He helps people the world, and their potential in it, more expansively. He has a special expertise in helping subject matter experts—physicians, engineers, scientists, preparedness and response executives, and more—step up to leading their teams, peers, organizations, and communities.

Four high-impact books: Eric is co-author of the book, You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most (PublicAffairs, June 2019) and author of Three Critical Shifts in Thinking for the Evolving Leader (O’Reilly. 2015) and Your Critical First 10 Days as a Leader (Safari, 2015). He is also 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).

More than 200 bylined articles: Eric writes on leadership, decision-making, and negotiation in top journals. His columns on leadership and management appear regularly at strategy+business where he is a contributing editor. He has written for CNN.com, Harvard Business Review, Leader to Leader, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many more. Eric has been covered or quoted in the Boston Globe, The Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., Knowledge@Wharton radio, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other outlets.

Roles with Impact: Eric holds an appointment as associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University and as Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Eric teaches in numerous executive education and graduate level courses at Harvard as well as at M.I.T, the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of California, San Diego, and others. In 2018, he was named a Trust Across America Top Thought Leader in Trust. He speaks to executive audiences around the world about the challenges of leading in fast-moving, unpredictable circumstances.

Eric sits on the editorial advisory board of Crisis Response Journal, the Leadership Communications Council at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and the Future Vision Committee at Disaster Recovery Institute International. He also sits on the board of Massachusetts for Elephants. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics (with honors) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master’s degree in leadership from Lesley University.