Jim Tull
Senior Advisor
Jim Tull is a Senior Advisor for GTA and a Partner with CMP Partners, based in Boston. Jim is also an adjunct professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University where he teaches negotiations. Jim is a globally recognized leader in the fields of negotiation, communication and conflict management. Mr. Tull has advised and trained top-level executives, government officials in over 80 countries. Most recently, he has expanded his practice to family-owned enterprises, where he works with family ownership groups to help them build alignment on their collective interests and priorities and make major ownership decisions.
In his private sector practice, Jim has over 25 years of professional experience designing and delivering highly tailored workshops for his clients. Mr. Tull partners with enterprise owning families specifically to provide coaching on communication and having difficult conversations and to support with meeting design and facilitation. He supports ownership groups in coming together for high stakes meetings where they need to build alignment on moving forward with critical decisions. Jim uses his training and experience as a negotiator to support family communication, effective consensus building, and when necessary to serve as a mediator for 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.
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.
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 lives in Carlise Massachusetts with his wife. He 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.
