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.