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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.
Office Fit!
I had a thought….. Going to work is tiring. I don’t mean in a burnout kind of way, I mean more in a fitness kind of way. We all recognise that we spent two years walking no further than the circumference of our house five or six times a day, with the odd dog walk here...
Chalk and Cheese of Leadership
What a weekend it’s been!! House move weekend…. It always seems a good idea at the time, right!?! We experienced two examples of leadership: The supervisor of Trunk Logistics was just brilliant. He was happy to help carry furniture with his team, was quick to step in...
Reflections on my time as a Civil Servant
Today I say goodbye to my amazing, supportive and clever colleagues at the Department of Health and Social Care. Its been a great experience and I’ve grown a lot. Here are my reflections and some things I’ve learnt… The language is different. The Civil Service (CS)...