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Director, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard University
Harvard University
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Marcus is founding Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Marcus’ research, scholarship and applied practice examine the advancement of health care and public health negotiation, conflict resolution and leader development. He is also Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.
Dr. Marcus is lead author of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995 and in its Second Edition, 2011). The book was co-recipient of the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution “Book Prize Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution.” It also won the Book of the Year award from the Journal of the American Nursing Association. Lenny is co-author of Mediating Bioethical Disputes: A Practical Guide (New York: United Hospital Fund, 1994).
Dr. Marcus is also lead author of the book, You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most (New York: PublicAffairs Press, In paperback, March 2021).
Over his twenty-six years at Harvard, Dr. Marcus’s work has also focused on the implications of conflict in health settings, the uses of mediation for resolving health related disputes. He has mediated, consulted, and trained nationally and internationally, including a number of projects to facilitate the consolidation and merger of health system networks. An enthusiastic teacher, speaker and storyteller, he is recipient of the 2017 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Excellence in Teaching Award for Executive and Continuing Professional Education."
Dr. Marcus received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the Heller School at Brandeis University, studying policy and organizations.