Teresa Reile
President
What happens when the life you worked so hard to build suddenly forces you to confront whether you will be around long enough to enjoy it?
Teresa Reile has spent decades building businesses, leading organizations, and turning ideas into action across more than 50 ventures spanning public relations, renewable energy, wellness, technology, and other industries. She has also taken her ideas to the TEDx stage and audiences around the world.
But the most consequential chapter of Teresa's life did not begin in a boardroom.
It began with cancer.
Her diagnosis, surgery, profound personal upheaval, and later health challenges forced her to question assumptions she had made about success, health, and the human body. That journey ultimately led her deep into the subject of hypoxia, the lack of adequate oxygen in tissue, and transformed both her life's work and the questions she believes all of us should be asking about our health.
She tells that deeply personal story in her book, From Tumor to Triumph: My Oxygen Awakening, exploring illness, resilience, self-advocacy, transformation, and what can happen when someone refuses to accept that the first answer is necessarily the final answer.
Teresa's story raises a question every high achiever eventually has to face:
What is the value of building an extraordinary business if the person building it is quietly running out of capacity?
