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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.
Bite-sized Learning
Working from home and the new normal has given me more time to do some bite-sized learning. I’m an avid fan of learning new things and am always looking for ‘input’. I’ve been really impressed by TED Talks, Big Think, LinkedIn Learning, Future Learn and some of the professional webinars I’ve watched. You’ll have seen my posts about….
The Devil in the Deadline
Yesterday I posted about webinar preparation. Today my experiences are directing me to think about preparation in general, and timeliness. Getting something done by a deadline is really important. A lack of preparation, planning and delivery on one persons part might...
Leading in a Complex World
One of the three main topics of my research has been leadership at all levels, and consequently complex leadership theory and complex adaptive systems. Having watched how organisations are having to flex and adapt to deliver a COVID response, I’m more convinced that...