Nick Forster

Nick is a writer and business consultant based in New South Wales Australia. Before leaving the higher-education sector in June 2015, he was a professor in the Department of Management at Sultan Qaboos University and had also worked at the Al Faisal University College of Business (AUCB) in Riyadh from 2011 - 2014. He was the Director of the AUCB MBA program, Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee and, on two occasions, the Acting-Dean of the AUCB. He taught Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Change and Innovation, and Social, Ethical and Environmental Issues in Business on the MBA program. He received an Al Faisal University Outstanding Faculty Service Award in 2014.

During 2007-2011, he was Professor of Business Leadership at Zayed University in Dubai where he taught on the College of Business Executive MBA and International Business M.Sc programs. Before moving to the UAE, he had worked at the University of Western Australia Business School (Graduate School of Management) from 1997 to 2007. He received several commendations and awards for MBA teaching during this time, and was also twice selected by the UWA Business School as a nominee for the National Australian University Awards for Teaching in 2000 and 2005. He also received four teaching awards at Zayed University during 2007-2011.

Nick is the author of five books, and has published more than 130 academic and professional articles, book chapters and conference papers, as well as producing research and consulting reports for several business organizations in Australia, Singapore, the UAE and the UK. His most recent book is A Quiet Revolution? The Rise of Women Managers, Business Owners and Leaders in the Arabian Gulf States (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a series of three books, The Psychopath Paradox (Penguin/Random House, 2023).

Nick has collaborated in research, management/leadership development and consulting projects with more than thirty companies in the UK, Singapore, Australia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and was a facilitator in the Australian Institute of Management’s Action Learning Programs with two companies in Western Australia, run in collaboration with the Harvard Business School from 2002-2005. He was also involved in the delivery of leadership and management development workshops to several of the largest companies and public sector organizations in Western Australia, including the Office of the Premier and Cabinet and the City of Perth Executive during 1997 - 2007.

He was a member of the national judging panel for the annual Australian Human Resource Management Awards for three years, and helped to write the criteria for two new awards in 2004, ‘Corporate Citizenship’ and ‘Employer of Choice’. He was featured in several ABC radio interviews and on the Qantas in-flight Business Program, and also contributed several articles to practitioner publications such as West Australian Business News, Leadership Quarterly and Business Review Weekly during 2000-2007.

While working in the UK from 1987-1997, several articles featuring his research on domestic and international job relocation were published in The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and The Yorkshire Post; and this was also featured in interviews on BBC Radio 4, Radio Sheffield and Radio Scotland. Several references to this research appeared in other professional journals such as Management Today, CBI/ERC Relocation News and Investment International.

Nick can be contacted at jindinick@gmail.com