Nick Forster

Nick Forster is a writer and consultant based in rural New South Wales, Australia. Before leaving the university sector in 2015 to pursue other professional and personal interests, he worked at six universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and the Middle East. He taught Organizational Behaviour, Business Leadership, Organizational Change and Transformation, Creativity and Innovation, Social, Ethical and Environmental Issues in Business, and Corporate Governance and CSR, primarily on Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive MBA programs.

He was a Professor of Management in the Department of Management at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman during 2015 and also worked at the Al Faisal University College of Business (AUCB) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 2011 to 2014. While there, he was the Director of the AUCB MBA program, Chair of Graduate Studies and also served twice as the acting-Dean of the AUCB. He was awarded an Al Faisal University Outstanding Faculty Service Award in 2014.

During 2007-2011, he was Professor of Business Leadership at Zayed University in the UAE where he taught on the Executive MBA and Master of Science in International Business programs. Before moving to Dubai, he worked at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia Business School from 1997 to 2007. He received eight commendations and awards for 'Excellence in Teaching' during this time and was nominated by UWA for a National Australian University Award for Teaching in 2000 and 2002. He also received four teaching awards at Zayed University. Before moving to Australia in 1997, he worked at the University of Wales College of Cardiff Business School and was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Social and Applied Psychology Unit at Sheffield University from 1987 to 1991.

During his academic career Nick authored or co-authored five books, and published more than 100 academic, professional, practitioner, trade and newspaper articles. He also collaborated in management and leadership development programs, and a variety of in-house consulting projects, with more than thirty companies and public sector organisations in Australia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the United Kingdom.

A series of four books, The Psychopath Paradox: A Journey into the Dark Side of Human Nature (‘Origins’, ‘Psychopaths in Business and the Corporate World’, ‘Political Psychopaths’ and ‘The World on a Precipice’), were published as e-books by Amazon KDP and Barnes & Noble during May 2026 and will be published as paperbacks in January 2027.