Professor Michael Apter
Non-Executive Development Director
Michael has worked with organisations within industry, government and the not for profit sector. His background is as a research psychologist, and he is the prime originator of Reversal Theory. In developing Reversal Theory he has collaborated with researchers and practitioners in many different countries, and travelled widely. He has written or edited sixteen books on this and other topics, as well as numerous papers and book contributions to other published works. He has presented many papers at conferences around the world.
Michael received both his bachelors’
degree and doctorate from Bristol University (UK), in the early 1960s. He also
spent time at Princeton, Oxford
and King’s College London while he was working on his Ph.D. He initially worked
as a research psychologist for a company developing training materials.
Subsequently he was on the faculty of the University
of Wales in Cardiff for many years, holding the senior
position of Reader within the University.
Michael has held a number of visiting
professorships, including at Bergen (Norway), Barcelona
(Spain), and the University of British
Columbia (Canada).
He has also been a visiting professor at several American universities
including Northwestern, Yale, Chicago and Georgetown.
He is a Fellow of the British
Psychological Society, and a Life Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of
Advanced Studies. He currently lives in Washington,
DC.