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ABOUT ME
Dr Nia D Thomas is a strategic, values-driven senior leader with more than twenty-five years’ experience across the NHS, civil service, local government and the charitable sector, holding Chief Executive and Director-level roles throughout her career.
Alongside her executive work, Nia is a leadership consultant, author of The Self-Awareness Superhighway, and host of the Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast.
Read more about Nia and her career experience
values
Care, Respect, Creativity and Learning sit at the heart of everything at Knowing Self Knowing Others. These four values shape how Nia works and what she stands for as a leader, consultant and thinker. They show up in every interaction — from prioritising the wellbeing of others and treating people with dignity, to embracing innovative thinking and committing to continuous growth and learning. On this page you’ll find out what each value means in practice and how together they underpin KSKO’s mission to develop self-aware leaders who build kinder, more respectful and creative working relationships.
WORKSHOPS
If you have a leaders learning event or team away day planned, Nia can come along and deliver a dynamic workshop for you. Appealing to people who learn in different ways, Nia’s self-aware leadership workshop will give people to get up out of their seats, learn about self-awareness, share their thoughts and ideas and set objectives for future growth and development.
Head over to the Workshops page to find out more about what previous workshop attendees have had to say.
Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose
I recently stumbled on a talk about motivation by Dan Pink. It was quite a revelation. Science says that rewards and incentives are actually demotivators. But business continues to use rewards and incentives as motivators. Pink has discovered that what actually...
Discovery Series – Part 6
In bringing all my research findings together, I developed the Corollary Model. It corralled the questionnaire findings, interview findings and literature comparison together into one glorious triangle! I discovered that there was a relationships between...
Discovery Series – Part 5
I wanted to know if people who were identified as effective leaders had more self-awareness than people who were identified as ineffective leaders. I also wanted to know if the answer would be the same across the five job levels of the Welsh public service. I looked...



