Eric connects with audiences at live keynotes, virtual events, and workshops. 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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Unleashing the Power of Us: Building Communities of Leading
As organizations and communities face ever-more complex challenges, leading change needs a refresh.
Eric reveals how to tap into the power of humans’ natural collaborative, adaptive instincts by making sense, crafting meaning, opening space, and shaping place to enlist support and build momentum. Change becomes a collective undertaking where everyone sees the future, and has the potential to contribute and grow.
“Your presentation was amazing and very relevant to our group.”
Leading Through Crisis and Change
Navigating turbulence and adapting to fast-evolving conditions are the new core competencies for leaders. 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.
Effective crisis leaders build islands of certainty around core values and principles that restore calm and foster resilience amidst the chaos. This enables quick action, even amidst great uncertainty. Eric shows you how to lead through 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!”
Getting “Smarter Than Your Brain”
Eric uses accessible insights from neuroscience and psychology to help leaders understand how to optimize their performance and that of their teams.
He reveals how three core features of the human brain drive our behavior, decisions, and actions. It is knowledge that enables people to work with, rather than against, their core capabilities. Participants leave better understanding themselves and how to work with the amazing capacity of their brains while avoiding common pitfalls.
“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.”
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.”
In-depth Workshops for Tranformational Change
Bring Eric to your strategic off-site, leadership training, or other meeting to get your people thinking and ready for change. In addition to his keynote topics, Eric has a proprietary approach to future-casting that helps executive teams look over the horizon to find fresh insights and opportunities while overcoming blindpots. He also offers workshops on negotiation, conflict resolution, and making critical decisions.
Eric’s “vast knowledge and expertise span the universe of leadership.”
Eric works with visual storyteller Heather Willems of Two Line Studios to add an extra dimension to workshops and training sessions.