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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.

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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From Outdated to Outstanding: 3 Ways to Master Unlearning & Relearning

From Outdated to Outstanding: 3 Ways to Master Unlearning & Relearning

I’m really lucky that from time to time, I get to collaborate with amazing thinkers from around the globe! This time, I’m joined by Juan Gonzalez. I caught up with Juan to discover more about learning, unlearning, experiential learning, self-awareness and the future of the world of work. The ninth direction of my Self-Aware Leadership Compass is experience (i.e. experiential learning) so it seemed like an excellent learning opportunity to catch up with Juan! Check out our interview

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