Denise Kingsley-Jones lived in north London/ Hertfordshire and completed a degree in History and Politics with American Studies, followed by postgraduate study in Business, Denise did what any sensible person might do: she moved away from her family, friends, waved goodbye to Hertfordshire, and relocated to Wales at the age of thirty-five.
There, while studying for a master’s in international relations at Swansea University, she casually ran a community centre and a restaurant at the same time. (As one does.)
Denise has since flitted like a determined butterfly from healer to boardroom, creating an events business that introduced holistic approaches to stress, sickness, and attrition into Big Business, before returning those same ideas back to the community through alternative health events. She also wrote a complimentary health column and edited health pages for a newspaper for several years, where Denise was told she had the most searches on the newspaper’s website. Alongside a steady stream of blogs, political commentary, and general written musings that refused to stay neatly in one box. Although, a fiction book is, in the making right now!
Later, Denise worked as a Race Equality Officer before founding and running a non-profit organisation, The Olive Trust Wales, delivering community projects and, during Covid fresh food and recipes to food banks. A public speaker, she has won two public speaking prizes and an ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ where she helped young fledglings take their first, often wobbly, steps into business.
Currently, Denise continues to run her non-profit whilst also serving as a Director at a security company, because clearly, one life path was never going to be enough. Still coaching health, business and a few healing clients.
Forever the phoenix, Denise has risen from the ashes more times than she cares to count, navigating major personal traumas with resilience, humour, and an ability to keep going even when things get messy. Her greatest joy is time spent with her husband Steve, their fourteen-year-old son Adam, and their two dogs, Coco and Luna. They divide their time between their home in Swansea, South Wales, and a lodge in Devon, South-west England.
Denise is known for helping anyone who crosses her path (including refugees—one of whom lived with the family), for reading widely, watching films, painting, drawing, going to the gym, and bursting into song without warning. She can hold three conversations at once, answer all of them (sometimes correctly), and leave everyone around her simultaneously confused, entertained, and oddly reassured.
