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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: The Language of Power – Why ‘Girls’ and ‘Boys’ Just Won’t Do
Nothing quite grates like hearing managers refer to their team as “the girls” or “the boys.” Maybe you’ve said it. Maybe you’ve heard it. Maybe you cringed when someone else did. It’s time we talked about why this kind of language belongs in the past and why the words we use as leaders matter.
The Language of Power: Why ‘Girls’ and ‘Boys’ Just Won’t Do
Nothing annoys me more than managers who refer to their team as ‘the girls’. You may have been one of the girls, you might have heard it used, hey – you might have even been THAT manager! When a gang of male workers turn up and the supervisor says, “I’ll get the boys on it!”, my toes curl and my teeth clench. Join me as I share with you why they are terms that should be consigned to the history books and rubbish bins of forward thinking organisations.
Core Concepts: The View from Both Sides – The Fall and Rise of Respect
Respect is one of my core values and disrespect really gets my goat. In this week’s article, I share with you some reflections from working on both sides of the respect divide and about how you can generate kinder, more respectful and creative working relationships. Join me in reflecting on my 25 years in the world of work as I share my musings on the meaning of respect.
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