Tessa Parry-Wingfield

Tessa Parry-Wingfield is first and foremost a 47-year-old mum of two girls. With her professional hat on, she is a former broadcast journalist – having spent a decade in the newsrooms of ITN, Al Jazeera English and Channel TV in Guernsey. She then founded (in 2004) and is CEO of ‘The Power of Words’ – a successful global communications consultancy that supports leaders in their field in the UK and MENA region.

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My business helped me through cancer… until it didn’t

Running my own business propelled me through the biggest trauma of my life. I was in a hospital bed the day after surgery, a bandage on one side of my face, having had my entire left eye removed suddenly due to rare eye cancer. My husband caught me on LinkedIn. “You can’t stop!” he teased. It’s true, I didn’t pause to take a breath. I continued as if nothing had happened. I plunged myself further into growing my business. And I realise now that this masked the mental struggle that was bubbling within.