Eric connects with audiences at workshops, live keynotes, and virtual events. Listeners leave with actionable insights, excited to take on challenges and make positive change within their organizations and communities. Here are some of his current speaking topics enjoyed by scores of audiences around the world.
“Eric McNulty is a rare talent: equal parts thought leader, storyteller, and teacher. His views on leadership are breakthrough yet accessible to senior and aspiring leaders alike. If your organization is searching for an authority on leadership, bring Eric in to speak. You and your audience will be delighted with your decision.”
– Eric Lowitt, Managing Director, Nexus Global Advisors
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Navigating Turbulent Times: Building Communities of Leading
As organizations and communities face ever-more complex challenges, how we think about leading needs to change as well. Drawing on extensive research on leading through crisis and change as well as compelling examples, Eric reveals the power of humans’ natural collaborative instincts. He explores some of the fundamental shifts required to meet the future with hope and confidence. These include moving from a scarcity to an abundance mindset–seeing the leadership potential in everyone–rather than relying on individual heroes. Eric draws on real-world events as well as cutting-edge research to chart a path forward to a just and abundant future.
Leading through Crisis and Change
It’s impossible to prepare for every contingency. Yet there are essential skills and techniques you can learn to face high-stakes moments with confidence.
Guiding a team or organization through crisis and change begins comfort with ambiguity. You will never know everything, yet you have to act. Effective crisis leaders build islands of certainty around core values and principles that restore calm and foster resilience amidst the chaos. Eric shows you how to navigate even the most turbulent situations so you, too, can confidently take the reins in any challenge.
“Eric is an accomplished speaker and possesses the ability to keep large groups intrigued and engaged while presenting complex materials – no small feat!”
The Deeply Human, Deeply Social Future of Work
While the bells-and-whistles of the latest technology get the most attention, people will continue to want to work together. We are a social species with instinctual urges to collaborate. The future of work will call people to team up to tackle ever-more complex problems with greater urgency. That means a transition from organizations build for stability and predictability to structures optimized for fluidity and adaptive capacity. Leading such organizations will require the ability to sense-and-respond rapidly amidst ambiguity and unpredictability.
“Eric is a fantastic communicator and really engaged us as participants.”
Leading to Solve “Wicked” Problems
People dedicated to environmental, humanitarian, social justice, and other seemingly intractable challenges often find themselves called to lead, yet without the solid skills to do so. Tackling these complex challenges require what Eric calls ‘Big C’ change and ‘lower-case l’ leading—people at all levels, leading from where they are and making an impact locally and globally. This talk is ideal for audiences of scientists, humanitarians, physicians, policy makers, and activists who want to amplify their impact and effectiveness in addressing system-scale issues.
Passionate and insightful about the devastating domino effects of climate change, urbanization, biodiversity loss and other system-scale shifts, Eric leans into the thinking and practices that turn “accidental” leaders into purposeful, effective intentional leaders ready to use their talents and skills to create a more just and thriving world.
“Eric gave a one-day seminar on Meta-Leadership and Conflict Resolution at UCSD. Our feedback survey was relentlessly positive scores; it is rare to see top box numbers over 95% like his are.”
Eric works with visual storyteller Heather Willems of Two Line Studios to add an extra dimension to workshops and presentations.