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Eric McNulty, MA

Associate Director for the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Eric J. McNulty holds an appointment as associate director for the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work centers on leadership in high-stakes, high-stress situations. He teaches in graduate-level courses on public health and healthcare leadership, conflict resolution and negotiation as well as serving as program co-director for the Leading in Health Systems executive education program. 

He is the co-author, along with Dr. Leonard Marcus, Joseph Henderson and Dr. Barry Dorn, of You’re It! Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most (Public Affairs, June 2019). He is also co-author, with Marcus and Dorn, of 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 a widely published business author and researcher. He writes a regular online column for Strategy + Business. He has written multiple articles for the Harvard Business Review (HBR), Business Review (China), O’Reilly Media, Sloan Management Review, and others others.

McNulty is a member of the Leadership Communications Council at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He was named to Trust Across America's 2018 Top Thought Leaders in Trust list. He is also associate director and program faculty at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Previously, McNulty was a contributing editor managing director for conferences at Harvard Business Publishing. He has held numerous management, marketing and communications roles in the private sector working with some of the world’s best known companies. He 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.