DEVELOPING SELF-AWARE LEADERS AROUND THE GLOBE
Looking to improve business relationships and resolve employee conflicts? Enhance your leadership and reputation by developing your self-aware leadership skills. Learn how it strengthens relationships, boosts leadership and helps you leverage feedback. Discover practical steps to grow your self-awareness and stay ahead in the digital age with a people-centric approach.
Looking forward to joining you on your learning journey!
INTERIM
I’m an interim strategic and operations leader 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.
blog
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Every week you’ll receive an article reflecting on my experiences and observations from the world of work. I’ll also share with you reflections from my research and sections from my book.
Every blog aims to help you think differently, learn more and make choices that allow you to move towards your aspirations and develop your self-aware leadership skills. Every Tuesday, I’ll share my long article for paid subscribers. Every Friday, I’ll share my summary ‘minimalistical’ for everyone for free.
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Podcast
Listen in to my learning journey as I discuss self aware leadership with thinkers from around the globe on The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast.
Across 100 episode, I interview guests with experience in leadership, coaching, organisational behaviour, psychology, human resources, people management and more.
Join me as I talk through some thought provoking issues, share interesting insights, hear some eyeopening stories and unearth some controversial opinions!
You can listen on your favourite podcast players and also check out KSKO TV on YouTube.
Book
Want to enhance your business relationships, resolve conflicts, or elevate your leadership? ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway‘ provides practical tools to boost self-awareness and leadership effectiveness.
Discover why self-awareness is vital for your reputation, how to strengthen relationships, and gain actionable skills for thriving in a people-centric, digital world. Guided by nine CHARTABLE compass points like care, humility, and authenticity, this book combines expert advice, podcast insights, and personal reflection to help you develop your self-aware leadership skills.
The Self-Awareness Superhighway is an Amazon Best Seller in…..
- Business Management & Leadership
- Occupational & Organisational Psychology
- Business Careers
Start your transformative journey today!
Quiz
Take the quiz to discover how self-aware you really are! Inspired by ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway’, this two-part quiz helps you assess your self-awareness with input from others. In Part One, rate yourself on nine CHARTABLE compass points like care, humility, and authenticity using a nine-point scale. In Part Two, invite up to three colleagues to rate you on the same criteria. After seven days, you’ll receive a report combining your self-assessment and anonymous averages from your raters. Use your results to map your self-awareness journey and decide your next steps for growth!
Journal
The ‘Self-Awareness Superhighway – Reflections Journal’ invites you on a journey of self-discovery, helping you reflect on your skills, impact, and opportunities for growth. Guided by the nine points of the Self-Aware Leadership Compass—like care, humility, and authenticity—this journal supports your transition from good to excellent leadership. Through journaling and self-reflection, identify patterns and trends to build awareness and chart your unique leadership journey.
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.
latest blog articles...
Knowing Self Knowing Others: Unlocking the Power of Self-Aware Leadership
Many years ago, I worked with some unpleasant people. If you weren’t in their club you were out in the cold and boy, was that made clear. I often used to ask myself, in between my tears, ‘do these people have any idea of the impact they’re have on others??’. Sometimes impact would be exchanged for ‘damage’, ‘pain’ and ‘hurt’, but they were all variations on a similar theme.
New Journal Released for 2025!
What’s new in the Self-Awareness Superhighway: Reflections Journal 2.0? Check out the new format and the different spaces where you can: assess yourself against the self-aware leadership compass, write down your reflections, doodle thoughts and ideas about what you want to do differently next time. And it’s square!!
Elevate Your Leadership Voice: 5 Filler Words That Sabotage Your Success
From 3 years of podcasting on The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast, these are filler words that make you sound stupid, ruin your reputation and make people question your competence. Ditch the ums and ahs and elevate your leadership voice!
Core Concepts: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment
Check out the concepts from The Self-Awareness Superhighway on feedback….. Feedback is essential, but not easy, neither to give nor to receive. As a leader, creating a feedback-friendly environment is a critical skills for building relationships with individual, developing relationships between team members and in achieving organisational effectiveness.
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.
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