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Nahla Summers is an internationally recognised speaker, award-winning author, and culture change expert.
With a focus on Emotional Intelligence and ethical leadership, Nahla has worked with organisations worldwide to help them foster socially conscious workplaces. She is the author of A Culture of Kindness and the forthcoming The Zero Burden Business, which advocates for reshaping corporate culture through the empowerment of employees with empathy, connection, and Emotional Intelligence. Through her talks, Nahla empowers businesses to harness the human qualities that AI can’t replace, qualities that drive lasting success and meaningful social impact.
In today’s fast-paced world where businesses and societies are constantly evolving, Nahla Summers is a beacon of transformative leadership. A thought leader in Emotional Intelligence (EI), kindness, and social impact, Nahla has spent years guiding organisations toward creating healthier, more empathetic, and productive work environments.
She is the author of “A Culture of Kindness” and the highly anticipated “The Zero Burden Business”, both of which challenge traditional approaches to leadership, advocating for the power of kindness, empathy, and sustainable business practices.
Nahla’s mission is simple yet profound: to foster a world where businesses thrive not just through profits but by creating a positive, lasting social impact.
Through her keynotes, workshops, and consultancy, Nahla helps organisations unlock the true potential of Emotional Intelligence, inspiring leadership that promotes well-being, resilience, and success across every level of a business.
With over 15 years of senior leadership experience in global organisations, Nahla’s personal and professional journey took a transformative turn when the kindness of a stranger helped her rebuild her life after tragedy.
This experience led Nahla to research the real meaning of kindness in leadership and business. She realised that the values embedded in kindness such as empathy, trust, integrity and connection, were often missing in corporate culture, contributing to stress, anxiety, and a lack of genuine engagement.
This realisation inspired her to launch Sunshine People CIC, a social initiative aimed at spreading kindness across society. In an unprecedented move, Nahla replaced traditional sponsorship with acts of kindness, raising nearly 250,000 documented acts through various challenges, including setting a Guinness World Record for travelling 5,007 miles on a stand-up bike.
Nahla’s new keynote focuses on how businesses can adopt emotionally intelligent leadership to create lasting social impact without creating additional burdens on society. It’s a vision for the future of ethical business.
As technology advances, Nahla teaches leaders to harness Emotional Intelligence to maintain a human touch in an increasingly digital world.
Drawing on her book “A Culture of Kindness’, Nahla shows how empathy and kindness can transform company culture, increase productivity, and enhance employee well-being.
Nahla cuts through the jargon and guides organisations on practical steps to create genuine, ethical leadership that drives positive change.
Nahla personifies the mission of kindness that she is so committed to. From our pre-chat before recording she was extremely considerate to ensure her messaging, stories and content would suit our aims. Upon meeting Nahla, she was easygoing and an absolute natural when she got into the podcast seat. The conversation with Gail for the Switched on Podcast is all about changing behaviour and mindset across BT and beyond, and this episode is going to have a huge impact in helping our colleagues to understand why practising kindness is important and how they can kick start their journey in doing so – we cannot wait for its release!
Working with Nahla was a terrific experience, and truly made an impact on the way in which we hoped to introduce kindness into our ‘way of life’ as a team. The way in which Nahla sought to understand the context, our objectives and how she might best align resulted in a powerful session that continue to influence our way of doing good business, supporting our people and achieving our goals for some time to come. I would highly recommend businesses engage with Nahla; bringing another, but critical lens, to how teams operate, contribute, and engage with wider business objectives – truly making a meaningful impact on self and others – very thought provoking.
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