Interim Chief Executive | Charity Sector | Dr Nia D Thomas
interim ceo
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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Making it up as we go along!
People will have often heard me say, ‘I’m just making it up as I go along!’ I use the phrase consciously & purposefully, so that everybody knows the achievement isn’t unobtainable. Everybody has the potential to be a manager, lead a conference, get that job, do a...
Facilitate, Ideate, Narrate, Activate!
It’s so easy to forget that we don’t have to have all of the answers all of the time. Today I was reminded about the benefit of drawing on other skills and appreciating that problem solving isn’t the only one you have to drawn from! When you don’t have all of the...
Value Everybody!
When people show an interest in the things that interest you, it’s a real buzz. It feels exciting and exhilarating to discuss and debate those topics that interest you with people who are interested in them too. So how then, do we make people feel acknowledged and...
Time to Rest!
I’m getting the sense that things are winding down for the end of the financial year and people are recharging their batteries. I’m noticing lots of people using up the annual leave that they didn’t take over the summer and Christmas because, well, what was the...
Feedback: invite it or ignore it?
The thing about self awareness is that you have two choices. You can invite it in or ignore it. Either way, it’ll find its way to you in the end. When you invite it in, you prepare yourself to hear positive and negative things about yourself. You set yourself up to be...
Adjust your mirrors!
Yesterday, Julian Stodd shared the idea of cultural strength being like fabric which is used and mended. This made me think about how I might describe self-awareness. It’s a bit like a scooter, with rear view mirrors. We’ve all heard that reflection is a good way to...