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Knowing Self Knowing Others: Unlocking the Power of Self-Aware Leadership

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!

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!!

Core Concepts: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment

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: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment

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From Outdated to Outstanding: 3 Ways to Master Unlearning & Relearning

From Outdated to Outstanding: 3 Ways to Master Unlearning & Relearning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

Lead the Future: Top 11 Trends Shaping Modern Leadership Today

Lead the Future: Top 11 Trends Shaping Modern Leadership Today

The other day someone asked me what I thought the current themes were in the leadership space. I had a think about what I was hearing, reading and talking about with my guests on The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast and here is the list of the top 11 trends that are shaping modern leadership today.

Check out the 11 trends shaping modern day leadership today, from Dr Nia D Thomas expert in self-aware leadership at Knowing Self Knowing Others.

Creating Happy Writers… with me Nia Thomas!

Creating Happy Writers… with me Nia Thomas!

It was brilliant to join the wonderful Steph Caswell on the Creating Happy Writers Podcast recently. During our conversation, we talk about:

What led me to write my book and how I used my observations of what’s been going on in my industry to help make the book relevant to leaders right now…….

Smashing the Scepticism: 10 Mindfulness Tips for a Better Working Day

Smashing the Scepticism: 10 Mindfulness Tips for a Better Working Day

I’m delighted to introduce to you Sonaakshi Sinha Jamwal and Tuğba Avci. We’re all a part of the wonderful community led by the inspirational Lucy Werner. We got talking and realised that we had a common interest in mindfulness. I asked Sonaakshi and Tuğba to share their thoughts, ideas and advice with us to help smash the scepticism around mindfulness. We’ve developed 10 tips to help you incorporate mindfulness for a better working day.