Tracey Spicer
Award-winning Author, Journalist, Broadcaster, & Anchor
Profile
Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.
The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in Australia. In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia.
In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey has been awarded the Order of Australia.
Highlights of her outstanding career include writing, producing and presenting documentaries on women and girls in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea and India. She is an Ambassador for ActionAid, the Ethnic Business Awards, Emerge Australia, the Australian POTS Foundation and Purple Our World, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.
Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted almost seven million views worldwide. Tracey’s essays have appeared in dozens of books including Women of Letters, She’s Having a Laugh, Father Figures, Unbreakable, and Bewitched & Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years.
The ABC highlighted Tracey’s #metoo work in the three part documentary series Silent No More, which featured the stories of hidden survivors. Her new book, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2023. It has since been longlisted for a Walkley Award, and won the Social Responsibility category in the Australian Business Book Awards.
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Feedback
Tracey was very accommodating and an absolute pleasure to work with.
Tracey was of course amazing and such a professional. I really appreciated the fact that she arrived onsite earlier than her scheduled performance to really understand the event and the audience. As I said, such a professional, and the ideal speaker for our event.
Tracey was an impeccable speaker and perfect for our IWD event. Her message resonated with both young and older audience from various backgrounds. Her smart delivery is full of humour and has guests still talking about it today.
Tracey is lively and very approachable and our business community loved the event her speech and sense of humour we can thank her enough.
I hope she felt the warmth from the crowd, will definitely be recommending her to all my networks
Tracey Spicer was an absolute delight to work with. She was professional, warm and genuinely wanted to deliver an excellent session for our group. She was generous with her time to understand our objectives and organisational needs. Tracey managed to upskill a large group in presentation skills, body language and voice techniques which is not easy to do! She was full of energy and passion which was evident throughout her session. We would highly recommend Tracey.
