Tessa speaks at the intersection of communication, leadership and resilience - helping professionals earn trust, speak clearly and courageously under pressure, and lead with humanity in an AI-driven world.

As a female founder and CEO, she's passionate about helping women communicate confidently and persuasively. And she passionately believes women are uniquely positioned to lead through our trust crisis.

Tessa has spent 25 years equipping senior executives and 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.

She 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 TEDx speaker, former journalist and media trainer, she talks about the importance of clear, courageous communication through The Seeing Clearly Method™.