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Clear, courageous communications for leaders under pressure

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Every organisation has conversations it’s avoiding. Restructures. Redundancies. Rejections. As a leader, what you say, and how you say it, determines whether people trust you or tune out. Add AI into the mix, and building a communication culture is more urgent than ever.

Tessa Parry-Wingfield is a keynote speaker and communications specialist who shows leaders how to speak with honesty when it matters most. Her talks draw on 25 years in newsrooms and boardrooms, from global conflicts to corporate crises, and a personal story that proves why clarity always beats comfort.

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Why book Tessa?

Tessa Parry-Wingfield has spent 25 years equipping senior executives and leadership teams to communicate when the stakes are high. She built a six-figure consultancy on finding the right words, often in the hardest moments. Then a rare eye cancer diagnosis put everything she’d learnt – and taught – to the test.

Tessa had her eye removed with two weeks’ notice and used every framework she’d ever built to communicate through the toughest chapter of her life. A Founder, CEO, former journalist and media trainer, she talks about the importance of clear, courageous leadership communication through The Seeing Clearly Method™.

    What people say about Tessa
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    “Unless Michelle Obama offers to compere any of my next events, you are my go-to woman!”
    Euphrasie Mundele Kilolo, Enterprise Support Officer, Chair of the Women’s Network, Richmond & Wandsworth Councils

    “Tessa is a generous and fluent storyteller, giving the audience insight into her journey, as well as hope and take homes.”
    Jeremy Langmead, Columnist for The Times

    “Tessa held the room beautifully, kept the energy flowing, and brought warmth, humour and real presence to the whole event.”
    Helen Roberts CEO, CPG Consulting

    “Tessa develops a deep connection with the audience – thanks to her strong communication skills and compelling narratives.”
    Kerrie Palmer, Associate Partner, Burson Buchanan communications advisory

    MY PERSONAL STORY

    In the blink of an eye

    I was running along the river one grey day in March 2023 when I noticed my eyes weren’t working together. A trip to the optician, an eye hospital and an ocular oncologist later, I was told I had a rare form of eye cancer, and my left eye needed to be removed. Just three weeks later, I had ‘enucleation’ surgery.

    From calm to chaos – and fear, in the blink of an eye.

    In the rush hour of my life – a busy mum of two girls, running my own business – my mortality was suddenly shoved in front of my face.

    Everything changed in that moment. And it was terrifying.

    I now have monocular vision and am just one of a thousand people who wears an eye prosthetic.

    During this crisis, I had to call on every career skill I’d ever learnt – and taught.

    It was a personal trauma, but thanks to my professional expertise I could navigate my way through with clear and courageous communications.

    This has become The Seeing Clearly Method – a framework that I bring to my keynotes – equipping leaders and teams to say what matters when the stakes are high.

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