Niki Avraam

WORKWELL

As Head of WORKWELL Europe, I lead the transformation of workplace culture across the UK & Europe, unlocking potential, strengthening leadership and embedding wellbeing as a driver of growth. With two decades’ expertise in law, leadership and culture change, I guide organisations through complexity while preparing people for the future of work. Alongside this, I speak and consult widely on ownership culture, leadership identity and my philosophy of “preferred discomfort” as a catalyst for growth.

Head of WORKWELL Europe

I help leaders and organisations build high-impact, adaptable teams by fostering ownership, bold leadership, and engagement. Through keynotes, workshops, and my 90-day program, I equip emerging leaders with the tools to develop their Personal Leadership Philosophy, drive workforce engagement, and create future-ready cultures where people thrive.

Speaker and Adviser to Business - Future of Workforce and Leadership 

Howat Avraam Solicitors

London based, multi-disciplinary law firm, Howat Avraam Solicitors which acts as the trusted legal adviser to companies and individuals by fighting for freedoms, resolving disputes and helping companies and individuals to prosper. We are forward-thinking lawyers, ready to embrace change and be pro-active.  Through periods of growth, uncertainty and adversity, we provide not just legal counsel but holistic solutions to business and workforce challenges.

Founder of Howat Avraam Solicitors 

Common Purpose

Common Purpose in London has been the epicentre of our global and local work for many years.
The city has allowed us to test and deliver our intiatives for multiple generations – young, emerging
and senior leaders. We are committing to a reinvigorated approach in London, to cultivate and maintain the interconnectendess in the city by helping leaders from all walks of life to cross boundaries. By doing so, these leaders will make an impact in both work and society.

Advisory Group Member of the Common Purpose London Advisory Group 

Rosling King LLP

Built stand-alone employment law department. Demonstrating a passion and dedication to justice, I litigated extensively on behalf of clients in discrimination, whistle-blowing and dismissal claims. A robust tactician and negotiator, I was able to use my knowledge and instincts for the dynamics of litigation to take decisive legal action whether this be settling a case or engaging in full blown tribunal action. Key speaker on employment and discrimination law and running a programme of employment law briefings for business owners and executives.

Partner and Head of Employment Law 

Judge & Priestley

Established employment and discrimination law department, representing companies and individuals in all 
manners of employment law claims and providing business advisory support.

Senior Associate

Speaker | Workforce Expert | Lawyer - Employment | 2x Founder | Championing Ownership Culture & Preferred Discomfort to shape bold leaders and energised teams.

I started as an employment lawyer but I never stayed in the back room. I built departments from scratch, founded my own law firms and sat at the heart of organisations when culture broke or needed to evolve.

What I learned?
When people take ownership of their work, everything changes.
Not because of perks but because of purpose.

Today, I work with leaders and organisations ready to raise the bar.

I help you access the top 1% of human potential through:
Ownership. Bold Leadership. Preferred Discomfort (work outside comfort zones).

Because teams don’t just need to cope with change, they need to lead it.

Here’s how I can support your people and performance:

🔹 Keynote Speaking & Masterminds: On workforce, leadership and change. Story-led, practical, and impossible to ignore.
🔹 The Ownership Culture Framework: For organisations ready to replace micromanagement with agency.
🔹 The Personal Leadership Philosophy Programme: A 90-day transformation for new and emerging leaders to define how they lead and why it matters.

I blend legal precision with lived leadership and it works.

From FTSE 100s to ambitious scale-ups, I’ve helped transform flat, disengaged teams into committed, forward-moving ones.

Let's connect

📩 Let’s talk: niki@nikiavraam.com
🌐 www.nikiavraam.com

I was the leader who did it all.
The fixer. The closer. The safety net.
And I was holding everyone back.

I didn’t mean to.
But by needing to own everything 
I stopped my team from owning anything.

Early on, I thought leadership meant:

 🟡 Knowing more
 🟡 Doing more
 🟡 Being everywhere. 

What I didn’t see?

That mindset shrinks teams.
It builds dependency, not growth.

The turning point?

When I stepped back 
Not to disappear,
But to let others step in.

That’s when people surprised me.
Stepped up.
Took ownership.
Went further than I could have alone.

That’s leadership.

→ Creating the space for others to thrive
→ Coaching, not controlling
→ Building leaders, not bottlenecks.

It’s a shift 
From execution to elevation.
From doing the job to empowering others to excel.

You become more than a manager.

You become a custodian of career journeys.
A multiplier of potential.
A force that builds futures.

These days, I measure success differently:
Not by what I do 
But by who grows in the process.

💬 What helped you let go and lead differently?

🔁 Repost if you believe leadership is about building people
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You’re the high performer.
You’re the one they count on.
I’ve spent 20 years helping leaders stop losing people like you.

But here’s the part that's often missed:

You won’t walk out with fireworks.
You’ll fade. Quietly.
You’ll stop offering ideas.

You’ll say “yes” when you mean “no.”
You’ll get the job done but not the one you want.

And that’s when the damage starts.

Not just to you but to the business.
Because when high performers disengage, they take:

🧠 Institutional knowledge
⚡ Initiative
💡 Insight
 🎯 Quiet leadership

The cost? Invisible. Until it’s too late.

Here’s how it usually plays out 
And what to do to stop it:👇

📌 1. You Become the ‘Safe Pair of Hands’
 More lands on your desk.
 But not more recognition.
 🔁 Set boundaries. Make your impact visible.

📌 2. Your Excellence Hides Broken Systems
 You keep it all moving even when it’s not working.
 🔁 Name the gaps. Offer strategy, not just support.

📌 3. You're Praised, Not Progressed
 You’re appreciated… but passed over.
 🔁 Track your wins. Ask for what’s next before burnout hits.

📌 4. You Do the Work of Two 
 You carry the weight without complaint.
 🔁 Speak up. Don’t let silence be mistaken for ease.

📌 5. Your Competence Breeds Complacency
 “She’s got it handled” becomes their excuse to lean out.
 🔁 Don’t just do, communicate your value.

📌 6. You Train Others But Don’t Get the Title
 You lead without the label.
 🔁 Document your leadership. Make it hard to ignore.

📌 7. You’re Left Out of Strategy
 Trusted to deliver, not to decide.
 🔁 Start contributing bold questions, not just finished work.

📌 8. You Forget What You Want
 You’re so useful, you stop being intentional.
 🔁 Reconnect to your ambition. Make space for your goals.

🔊 To the high performers:
 Your strength should never make you invisible.

🧠 To the leaders:
 If your best people are disengaging quietly, they’re already halfway gone.

🔁 Repost if If you’ve ever carried more than your share
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Stop waiting for the perfect start.

You’ll die waiting.

Your first move will be messy.
Your plan will break.
Your confidence will wobble.

And that’s exactly how it’s supposed to be.

I know this because I’ve started three times.
Each time as a founder.
Each time with no guarantee of success.

And each time
What mattered wasn’t perfection, 
But movement.

👉 Starting my own law firm after building departments in London firms.
👉 Stepping onto stages as a keynote speaker when I still felt like the “lawyer in the back office.”
👉 Launching new leadership programs without a glossy roadmap.

Every start was chaotic. 
But in the chaos, I discovered the frameworks, the voice, and the lessons that built my career.

Perfection is a lie that keeps people stuck.
Discovery only happens in motion.

So, stop waiting.
Iterate. Learn. Grow.
The messy start is the only real start.

💬 What’s something you almost didn’t start because you thought you weren’t ready?

🔁 Repost this if someone in your network needs the push to begin.
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Most companies don’t lack talent. 
They bury it. 
20 years unlocking potential in teams. 

Across industries. 
Through chaos and growth.

Here’s what smart leaders actually do 👇

🧠 Protect from noise
Good people can handle chaos.
Great leaders don’t make them live in it.

💪 Stretch, don’t shield
Safe work keeps people small.
Stretch work grows them.

👀 Spot potential early
Don’t wait until they’re “ready.”
Give them the chance before they think they are.

🎯 Make wins visible
Talent without visibility? Wasted.
Your people should be seen and heard.

👂 Listen between the lines
What they don’t say often matters most.
That’s where trust lives.

📢 Share credit loudly
Ego keeps it.
Leadership spreads it.

🚀 Build leaders, not followers
Followers need answers.
Leaders create them.

I help organisations unlock the top 1% of human potential.
If you want to build legacy, not just loyalty.

Start here.

💬 Which of these is most missing in your industry?

🔁 Repost to challenge leadership that plays small.
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These 9 micro-risks
Will transform your career 
Faster than any promotion ever could.

Still waiting to feel “ready”?
That’s comfort talking.

What you need isn’t a new title.
It’s a new tolerance for discomfort.

👇 Try just one. Watch everything shift.

🟡 Ask a bold question
 Not to prove.
 To understand.

🟡 Give feedback upward
 Clear.
 Kind.
 Impact-focused.

🟡 Say “I don’t know”
 Then follow with:
 “I’ll find out.”
 Watch trust rise.

🟡 Pitch the imperfect idea
 Innovation is messy.
 Courage matters more than polish.

🟡 Say yes to stretch work
 You’re not under-qualified.
 You’re under-experienced.
 (Not the same thing.)

🟡 Say no to misalignment
 Every fake “yes” costs you the real one.

🟡 Ask for the hard feedback
 If it stings, it sticks.
 And that’s growth in disguise.

🟡 Show your real self
 No one follows perfection.
 They follow truth.

🟡 Celebrate your wins
 Even when no one claps.
 Especially then.

This is how bold leaders are built.
Not in boardrooms or bootcamps.
But in micro-moments.

The kind that stretch you.
Refine you.
Reveal you.

Which one will you do first?
 💬 Drop the number 👇 or tag someone who needs this today.

🔁 Repost to help someone trade comfort for growth.
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9 Micro Risks that Fast-track your Career

The most dangerous story you’ll ever believe...

Is the one you tell yourself.

And worse?
The people you keep around you...
Who never challenge it.

🧠 We all do this:
We want to feel good.
So we choose comfort over clarity.
Soft encouragement over sharp truth.

But comfort doesn’t create growth.
It just creates a delay.

Here’s what I see over and over again in leadership and teams:

→ Leaders surrounded by yes-people
→ Cultures built on silence, not honesty
→ High performers held back by a polite lie:

 “You’re doing great.”

When they know they’re stuck.
I call this the Trap of the Comfortable Narrative.

A story that feels safe 
But is slowly costing you momentum, insight, and growth.

💥Real growth only happens when you get uncomfortable.

When you stop editing the truth to protect your ego.
And start getting curious about the real story:

🔍 What am I pretending not to see?
🔍 Who in my team is afraid to speak up?
🔍 What would shift if I heard the hard truth early?

If this visual made you pause…good.
Truth isn't always gentle. But it is the gateway to everything.

🙋‍♀️ I’ve built my entire legal and leadership career
 By helping organisations confront these uncomfortable truths.
And turn them into culture-shifting action.

So, let’s make this useful to someone else too.

👇 Repost this if you believe the truth still matters in leadership.
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And let me ask you

What’s one uncomfortable truth that changed everything for you?

Drop it below.

An entrepreneurial lawyer
An innovative accountant
A charismatic coder

Not words you usually see together.

But I’ve been the entrepreneurial lawyer.
I’ve met innovative accountants.
And I’ve watched charismatic coders lead the room.

Along the way, I realised something:
➡️ We are never just one job title.

When I qualified as a lawyer, I didn’t take the secure roles laid out for me.

I proposed something that didn’t exist
A new employment law department.
It meant risk, but also growth.

That decision shaped my career:

🏗️ Building departments from scratch
🚀 Founding my own firm
🌍 Advising leaders on how to unlock the best in their people.

I’ve seen the magic that happens when we stack skills, defy stereotypes and bring our full selves to work.

The world of work we’re in and going into 
Won’t reward a single label.

It rewards adaptability 🔄
It rewards pivoting 🔑
It rewards the “and” in your story ➕

Your technical skill + your emotional intelligence
Your job title + your creativity
Your role + your resilience.

The leaders and organisations that thrive will be the ones that stop confining people to boxes…

And start seeing the stack of talents, experience and perspectives they bring.

The future of work isn’t one-dimensional.
Neither are you.

🏛️This post sits alongside a photo of me outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
Those courts shaped part of me.
But only part.

Because we are always more than one role, one title, one story.

❓What unexpected “and” have you brought to your work?

🔁 Repost this if you believe the future of work belongs to those who refuse to fit into one box.

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