Tessa Parry-Wingfield | Professional Speaker | Say What Matters
Say what matters when it matters.
Clear, courageous, human communication for leaders and teams under pressure, from professional and financial services firms to global organisations.
Build trust. Influence decisions. Have the conversations others avoid.
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“Tessa brought that unique blend of hands-on communications expertise about what works and what doesn’t, with a deeply compelling personal story and the ability to convey it with humour, emotion and grace. This makes her a formidable facilitator and speaker, able to hold a space, large or small. I particularly appreciated her laser focus on what the audience needs, working backwards from there.”
Bhanu Bhatnagar Press & Media Relations Officer, World Health Organization Europe
Every firm is under pressure.
Cost cuts. Demanding client expectations. More for less. Restructures. Redundancies. AI reshaping roles and changing the economics of expertise. Professional and financial services firms feel it first. Every organisation feels it soon after.
Under that pressure, internal communication is often the first thing to crack:
- Leaders go quiet, or hide behind corporate-speak and jargon.
- Teams stop working well together, and stop communicating what matters.
- Talented people struggle to make the case for themselves, and lose motivation.
- The hard conversations get put off. Again.
The conversation you avoid today is the problem on your desk in six months.
Silence leaves people guessing. Tension and stress build. Trust erodes, decisions stall and good people leave. Not because the news was bad, but because nobody said it clearly, bravely and like a human being.
Invest in AI. Invest in your people, too.
Organisations are investing heavily in AI. The ones that thrive will invest in their people too: the leaders who explain change to the teams who live within it.
A simple method for hard conversations.
Built over 25 years in broadcast newsrooms and advising C-suites. Battle tested under the highest stakes. Used by leaders and their teams the very next day.
SEE.
Identify what’s really going on. Name the elephant in the room and the conversation being avoided.
People stop second-guessing and start dealing with the real issue.
SAY.
Find the words. A credible technique for bad news, feedback or making your case.
Hard conversations happen sooner and land better.
LEAD.
Go first. Set the tone and culture for everyone else.
People know where they stand, because someone had the courage to speak first.
Explore the keynote“Tessa’s talk at IWIRC Cayman was one of those rare sessions that stays with you. She shared a deeply personal story with honesty and humour and used it to show how communication can make or break a moment, even in the hardest of times. … My key takeaway: the story gets told with or without you, so own it.”
Meenaa Azmayesh Senior Litigator, Cayman Islands
A safe pair of hands. A session people remember.
25 years in communication
From broadcast newsrooms at Al Jazeera English and ITN, to media training senior spokespeople.
Founder and CEO
The Power of Words: 15 years helping C-suites across Europe and the Middle East tell their stories and find their voice.
Lived, not just learnt
Her method held through a rare cancer diagnosis and the loss of her eye. She teaches what she has lived.
Tailored to every room
Every session shaped to fit your people, your sector and the pressures they face.
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Helen Roberts CEO, CPG Consulting
One keynote. Tailored to every room.
Say what matters when it matters.
Clear, courageous, human communication when the pressure is on.
Equips leaders and teams to tackle the tough conversations, rather than avoid them.
Ideal for: professional and financial services firms, leadership conferences, senior team away days, women’s networks.
Find out moreGo deeper with a workshop.
A keynote opens the conversation. The workshop gives your people the skills to keep having it. A practical session built on The Seeing Clearly Method™, as an add-on to the keynote or on its own. Techniques your leaders and teams can use in hard conversations straight away.
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Tell Tessa about your event, your audience and what’s at stake. She’ll come back to you with her availability and how she would shape the session specifically for your room.
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