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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.
Bright Brain
Today I’ve had some great conversations about challenges and ideas and thoughts and opinions which made my brain buzz and feel energised. It’s good for your professional development to expand the boundaries of your thinking and to challenge your values, beliefs and...
Solving Problems Together
I’ve been thinking about the benefits of problem solving together. You’ll remember that in a recent blog post I talked about leaders not having all of the answers all of the time, well no one else does either! If you have a problem or a challenge or a question that...
Leading for Inclusion
When we are experienced at something we think we have all the answers or at least, that we should have all the answers. We plough on with what we think is right until a confident someone says, “erm, do you think that maybe that’s 6 instead of 5?” and we realise we’ve...