Nahla Summers is a thought leader, Guinness World Record holder, social change researcher, and cultural change consultant. Nahla spent 15 years as a senior leader in leading management firms worldwide. Then, the world she knew fell apart, and the kindness of a stranger became a catalyst for picking herself back up. From here, she started to research the power of kindness what kindness was, and she discovered that all the values that are umbrellaed in kindness: Gratitude, Empathy, Integrity, Time, Trust, Connection, and Courage were, for the most part, missing from the organisations she had worked within. She soon discovered that this was the root cause of workplace mental health conversations. When we focus on kindness and the values within that, we can change the workplace culture.
Nahla also set up Sunshine People CIC to start a social conversation about kindness. The Prime Minister has awarded her a Point of Light for ‘transforming the concept of sponsorship’. After cycling 3000 miles across America and walking 500 miles from South to North England, she broke a World Record by travelling 5007 miles on a stand-up bike, asking people to show their support by simply doing an act of kindness for a stranger rather than sponsor money, raising nearly 250,000 acts of kindness to date. Every year, she takes on a new challenge and discovers something new about the power of kindness on people. These incredible stories from her challenges are woven in to demonstrate how anyone can build resilience in just a moment.
An established author, she has several books, including ‘A Culture of Kindness’, a powerful theory about how we can bring kindness into the workplace to be happier and improve employee well-being. Her theory removes stress and anxiety from workplaces, therefore allowing increased productivity and profitability. ‘The Accidental Adventurer’ shares her journey of completing her challenges.
Emotional Intelligence Workshop For Leaders
Book Nahla's new workshop, Emotional Intelligence: Leading With Heart, exclusively at PepTalk. In this 90-minute workshop, led by Nahla Summers with support from an experienced facilitator, your leadership teams will explore the business benefits of empathic leadership and learn how to cultivate emotional intelligence.
Nahla Summers believes that culture change starts at an individual level. This talk empowers everyone to see how they all play a role in the growth of themselves and the organisation through kindness.
This talk by Nahla Summers shares the difference between being nice and being kind, it is one of the most popualr talks because it challenges the concept of kindness from something fluffy to something powerful in business.
There is a culture of putting a plaster over the mental health crisis that plagues workplaces, however in this talk Nahla Summers shares why and how it’s all in our hands.
In this talk, Nahla explains how and why the gains come about from culture change, what is the culture and how the idea of kindness makes this happen.
Nahla Summers draws upon her personal experience of achieving World Records by bringing to life how we can all have greater resilience through everyday life activities.
This talk is a summary of the work, the stories and the core values that the greatest leaders hold, derived from Nahla's research.
