Interim Chief Executive | Charity Sector | Dr Nia D Thomas
Creating Measurable Impact Across the Charitable Sector
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I am an Interim Charity Sector CEO who supports organisations to strengthen their strategy, systems, and culture in order to achieve measurable and sustainable impact.
I bring extensive experience from across health, local government, civil service, and the charitable sector, combining strategic and systems thinking with a people-centred approach. My leadership style is inclusive, practical, and forward-looking. grounded in human-centred planning and improvement that ensures organisations are effective, resilient, and built for the future. If you have an interim role or a project with which you need structured and accountable delivery, get in touch.
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Professional Wisdom
I was recently asked what the most important piece of professional advice I’ve ever received had been. I didn’t blink and said there were two things, not one Low and SlowMany years ago, I had a #mentoring session with Alison Ward, a wise Chief Executive and recently...
Contact Prevents Combat?
I managed to dip in to this amazing well-being event today. I caught part of a workshop about Wing Chun martial art, which has links to qigong and Kung fu. The presenter said that it was essential for there to be contact so that parties could be guided by what they...
INCIVILITY – We all pay the price
Today I joined a really interesting webinar by the Cognitive Institute, focussing on #civility in the workplace. I never cease to be amazed by the wealth of academic research that evidences the negative and frequently dangerous impact that even low level incivility...
Uni News!
DBA: Nia Thomas Nia Thomas, a Law graduate who works in strategy at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, has graduated from USW with a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) research degree. For her doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Gareth...
A Lesson on Candour from the Underground
My tube journey home was a little bit stop-start. Apparently there was a technical problem around Mile End and trains were bumper to bumper (Do trains have bumpers?) I’m sure that Transport for London trains all of its drivers to keep passengers informed about what’s...
The Language of Inclusion
We’re very good at developing short-hand terms and acronyms for the words and phrases of our working worlds. We easily forget that this ostracises the outsider and the newcomer. The role of the #leader in an organisation is to look up and out (a manager; down and in)....