Interim Chief Executive | Charity Sector | Dr Nia D Thomas
Creating Measurable Impact Across the Charitable Sector
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.
latest blog articles...
Empathy and Outcomes
Yesterday I blogged about EI for execs. I mentioned the need for empathy to help inform outcomes. The London School of Economics says that one of the three principles for using design thinking for business, is empathy (along with expansive thinking and...
Emotional Intelligence for Execs
A few years ago, I set up a daily newspaper called The Self Awareness Daily, via Paper.li, auto-populated from Twitter. It draws from accounts that post about emotional intelligence, self-awareness and leadership news. Today, it shared an article from inc.com...
Know Thyself – Part 4: Mini Self/Other Test
One of my suggestions for increasing self awareness in my blog post Know Thyself Part 2, was to write three words about how you think you were perceived in a meeting and to ask 2 other people to give you feedback about the same. This facilitates feedback in terms of...
I joined a Tal Ben- Shahar Webinar!
This week I joined another Action fir Happiness webinar, this time with Tal Ben-Shahar. It was the first time I’d heard him speak but because I’d seen his name linked to so many international happiness events, I really wanted to hear what he had to say. It was a vey...
Know Thyself – Part 3
This week I was introduced to a website called Future Me. It allows you to email yourself (or anyone else, I guess) in the future. This tool could be incredibly useful to you in tracking your self awareness. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it,...
Know Thyself – Part 2
One important part of developing self awareness is comparing the views you have about yourself with the views that others have about you Self awareness is socially constructed, which means it’s generated by being in relationships with others. You can’t really be aware...