
Eric McNulty
- Co-author of "You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most"
- Associate Director at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University
- Author "Communities of Leading" (MIT Press 2027)
- Member of the Advisory Council of Crisis Response Journal
Eric J. McNulty is a noted authority on leading through crisis and change. He is the co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most (PublicAffairs, 2021). He is author of e-books on leadership and more than 200 bylined articles in respected publications such as Harvard Business Review, Leader to...
read the restEric J. McNulty is a noted authority on leading through crisis and change. He is the co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most (PublicAffairs, 2021). He is author of e-books on leadership and more than 200 bylined articles in respected publications such as Harvard Business Review, Leader to Leader, and Sloan Management Review. He is also co-author of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration (Jossey-Bass, 2011). His next book, Communities of Leading: Making the World We Need and Deserve will be out with MIT Press in Spring 2027.
McNulty serves as Associate Director and Program Faculty at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University and Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He teaches leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution at the Chan School and in multiple executive/physician education programs at Harvard (including Harvard Medical School), MIT, the University of California San Diego Health, and UMass Medical Center.
McNulty has spoken at conferences and other events, developed content, led trainings and workshops, and facilitated meetings globally for organizations such as Accenture, Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, the Conference Board, Harvard Business Publishing, IBM, Massachusetts General Hospital, Microsoft, SLB, UPS, and other major organizations subject to confidentiality restrictions.
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. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Manomet Conservation Sciences and on the Board of Directors for Massachusetts for Elephants.
read less"You can’t always prevent the initial incident … You can always prevent the secondary crisis of a fumbled response.”