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Looking to improve business relationships and resolve employee conflicts? Enhance your leadership and reputation by developing your self-aware leadership skills. Learn how it strengthens relationships, boosts leadership and helps you leverage feedback. Discover practical steps to grow your self-awareness and stay ahead in the digital age with a people-centric approach.

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Podcast

Join me on my learning journey as I discuss self aware leadership with thinkers from around the globe on The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast.

Every fortnight  I’ll be interviewing guests with experience in leadership, coaching, organisational behaviour, psychology, human resources, people management and more. Join us as we talk through some thought provoking issues, share interesting insights, hear some eyeopening stories and unearth some controversial opinions!

THE SELF-AWARENESS SUPERHIGHWAY: CHARTING YOUR LEADERSHIP JOURNEY Dr Nia D Thomas

Book

Want to enhance your business relationships, resolve conflicts, or elevate your leadership? ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway‘ provides practical tools to boost self-awareness and leadership effectiveness.

Discover why self-awareness is vital for your reputation, how to strengthen relationships, and gain actionable skills for thriving in a people-centric, digital world. Guided by nine CHARTABLE compass points like care, humility, and authenticity, this book combines expert advice, podcast insights, and personal reflection to help you develop your self-aware leadership skills.

The Self-Awareness Superhighway is an Amazon Best Seller in…..

  • Business Management & Leadership
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Quiz

Take the quiz to discover how self-aware you really are! Inspired by ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway’, this two-part quiz helps you assess your self-awareness with input from others. In Part One, rate yourself on nine CHARTABLE compass points like care, humility, and authenticity using a nine-point scale. In Part Two, invite up to three colleagues to rate you on the same criteria. After seven days, you’ll receive a report combining your self-assessment and anonymous averages from your raters. Use your results to map your self-awareness journey and decide your next steps for growth!

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Journal

The ‘Self-Awareness Superhighway – Reflections Journal’ invites you on a journey of self-discovery, helping you reflect on your skills, impact, and opportunities for growth. Guided by the nine points of the Self-Aware Leadership Compass—like care, humility, and authenticity—this journal supports your transition from good to excellent leadership. Through journaling and self-reflection, identify patterns and trends to build awareness and chart your unique leadership journey.

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Workshops

Join a face-to-face workshop or webinar to Discover, Explore and Grow your self-aware leadership. In workshops, apply theory and practice to understand how behaviour impacts others, explore the nine directions of the Self-Aware Leadership Compass, and learn strategies for behaviour change and growth. Webinars focus on the three layers of self-awareness, techniques to excel as a leader, and tools to navigate challenges. Both sessions provide practical insights and include more on the Self-Aware Leadership Compass Quiz to help you map your leadership journey.

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Core Concepts: The Self-Aware Leadership Compass #1 – CARE

Core Concepts: The Self-Aware Leadership Compass #1 – CARE

The first nine Knowing Self-Aware Leadership blog articles of 2025 will be exclusive extracts from my book, The Self-Awareness Superhighway, about the nine directions of the self-aware leadership compass. There’s the first minimalistical from the first blog article all about care.

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Knowing Self Knowing Others: Unlocking the Power of Self-Aware Leadership

Many years ago, I worked with some unpleasant people. If you weren’t in their club you were out in the cold and boy, was that made clear. I often used to ask myself, in between my tears, ‘do these people have any idea of the impact they’re have on others??’. Sometimes impact would be exchanged for ‘damage’, ‘pain’ and ‘hurt’, but they were all variations on a similar theme.

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New Journal Released for 2025!

New Journal Released for 2025!

What’s new in the Self-Awareness Superhighway: Reflections Journal 2.0? Check out the new format and the different spaces where you can: assess yourself against the self-aware leadership compass, write down your reflections, doodle thoughts and ideas about what you want to do differently next time. And it’s square!!

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Core Concepts: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment

Core Concepts: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment

Check out the concepts from The Self-Awareness Superhighway on feedback….. Feedback is essential, but not easy, neither to give nor to receive. As a leader, creating a feedback-friendly environment is a critical skills for building relationships with individual, developing relationships between team members and in achieving organisational effectiveness.

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Core Concepts: Mastering Unlearning & Relearning

Core Concepts: Mastering Unlearning & Relearning

I was recently joined by Juan Gonzalez to discover more about learning, unlearning and experiential learning. Being that experiential learning is the 9th direction of my self-aware leadership compass, this was a really good opportunity to discover more. Here are the core concepts from my blog article.

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