Christine A.R. MacNulty, FRSA
cmacnulty@academyleadership.com

Christine MacNulty has more than thirty-five years experience as a consultant in long-term strategic planning for concepts as well as organizations, technology forecasting, technology assessment and socio-cultural change. For the last fifteen years, most of her consultancy has been conducted at high levels for the Department of Defense, including: The Joint Staff, OSD (OFT), the DON (Under Secretary, Secretariat, OPNAV N3/N5, N6, N7, CNET, NAVSEA, NSWG1, CNO's SSG), USMC (HQMC - Commandant), the USCG (HQ - Commandant), the USA (SMDC), JTAMDO, BMDO, (then) USACOM, JFCOM J9, and other COCOMs. She has also worked for NATO ACT and NATO NEC. Recently she has applied her knowledge of strategy, cultures and cognition to "understanding our adversaries" and to using that information to develop Cultural-Cognitive Systems Analysis, a method for planning and assessing effective non-traditional operations, information operations, and strategic communications.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1988 for her contribution to British industry. She is a popular speaker at conferences. She is the coauthor of two books: Industrial Applications of Technology Forecasting, Wiley, 1971, and Network-Centric Operations: Translating Principles into Practice to be published in 2009. She is presently writing a book on Strategy with Passion: What I have learned from the US Navy SEALs and Others. Her monograph "Truth, Perception & Consequences" was published by the Army War College, September 2007, and "Transformation: From the Outside In or the Inside Out" was published in September 2008. She has just been featured on the Heartbeat of America television program as the owner of an innovative small business.