Jim Tull

Senior Advisor

Jim Tull is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Boston University, a Partner with CMP Partners, and an Senior Advisor for GTA. Jim is a globally recognized leader in the fields of negotiation, communication and conflict management. Mr. Tull has advised and trained top-level executives and government officials in over 80 countries.

In his private sector practice, Mr. Tull advises and trains leaders and teams responsible for mission critical business transformations. With 25 years of professional experience designing and delivering highly tailored workshops, Mr. Tull has worked across a diverse range of international business sectors, including energy, technology, finance, pharmaceuticals, professional sports and food production/distribution. Mr. Tull partners with, advises and coaches top-level executives and their teams to help implement strategies for communication, effective consensus building, high-impact mergers and sustainable dispute resolution.

In his public sector practice, he has provided leadership level support on national conflicts in Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Venezuela. In addition, Mr. Tull has advised and developed trainings for a wide range of public sector groups, such as OXFAM, Mercy Corps International, Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade, El Salvador’s Ministry of Education, and many of Canada’s First Nations Communities. Mr. Tull has developed lasting relationships with many branches of the United Nations, working extensively with the WHO, WFP, FAO, IFAD, UNDP, UN-OCHA and UNICEF in their offices throughout the world.

Recent projects include: Assisting a negotiation team in their $200 million acquisition of energy assets from a large and diverse group of stakeholders; The successful mediation of a decades-long $135 million dispute between a South American country and two European companies; Celebrating 20 years of the founding of a bilateral dialogue group known as The Boston Group in Venezuela.

Mr. Tull is currently a member of the Adjunct Faculty for the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Other recent academic teaching experience includes Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, Kenyon College, University of Texas at Austin and Skolkovo MBA in Moscow.

Preceding his time at CMPartners, Mr. Tull worked closely with Professor Roger Fisher, author of the seminal work Getting to YES, at the Conflict Management Group for nearly a decade. Prior to that, Mr. Tull spent five years living in Central and South America as an International Partner with Habitat for Humanity working in indigenous villages. His interest in negotiation theory was made very personal in Nicaragua when he was held hostage by Recompa guerrillas and negotiated his own release and that of his colleagues.

Mr. Tull received his Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Kenyon College. He currently serves as a Board Member for the Harvard Kennedy School’s New England Alumni Association.