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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Event Host | MC | Panel Facilitator
Tracey is an accomplished and highly sought-after MC who is experienced in hosting events in an efficient and appropriate manner with the professionalism of an experienced television anchor who is utterly at home on stage.Event Host | MC | Panel Facilitator
As a panel facilitator, Tracey always ensures that the discussion is both informative and entertaining. She draws on her experience as a journalist to ask the right questions at the right time. Her television and radio background has enabled her to elicit all the relevant information and keep it engaging for the audience.
Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Businesses of the Future
Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence can take your business into the stratosphere. But what about the flip side? Bodgy bots can ruin your reputation and credibility overnight. In this fast-paced, funny and enlightening keynote, Tracey reveals the real story about the technologies revolutionising your workplace and home.Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Businesses of the Future
Audience takeaways:
How datasets and algorithms are beset with bias, eroding trust in your brand
The latest strategies to beat the biased bots, and boost your bottom line
Why ‘mindful AI’ is the key to attracting and retaining staff, stopping customer churn, and future-proofing your business
Creating Culture Through Communication
For the first time in history, five generations are working together. How can we effectively communicate across the ages, from the office to the home? In this engaging and interactive keynote, Tracey takes you through some simple steps to build bridges between the traditionalists and Gen Z.Creating Culture Through Communication
Audience takeaways:
How to keep workers of all ages engaged at work, F2F and online
Tips, tricks and tools to improve messaging to deepen connection
The latest neuroscience on body language, gesture, voice and breathing to break down the barriers
What is Belonging?
The conversation in the corporate world has moved beyond diversity, equity and inclusion to the concept of belonging. In this deeply researched and thought-provoking keynote, Tracey shares the latest tech-enabled strategies that actually work.What is Belonging?
Audience takeaways:
How to retain skilled staff, strengthen your brand, and support innovation
Easy-to-implement, real-world, fresh initiatives for your workplace to boost productivity
Navigating an intersectional approach across diversity of thinking, gender, race, ability, age and sexual orientation
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We were pleased to have Tracey Spicer as a virtual guest speaker for our 2021 International Women’s Day celebration. Our team was glued to the screen for laughs, inspiration and most importa ... keep reading Michelin Australia
Tracey was amazing.10/10! It was obvious that she was well-researched with the book; made some great points and highlighted the different ways AI can be positive and negative.
Thank you so much for being part of our launch. You gave it the professionalism, credibility and warmth we were looking for!
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 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.
Your professionalism and uplifting spirit was a highlight of the night. I know the panellists and patient speakers were grateful to have your calming reassurance on stage and I wanted to thank you for handling the whole night with sensitivity and compassion. Thank you again for sharing your personal story with honesty. It was inspiring and empowering for all of us in the room.
Tracey is lively and very approachable and our business community loved the event her speech and sense of humour can thank her enough. I hope she felt the warmth from the crowd, will definitely be recommending her to all my networks.
It is always such a pleasure to work with Tracey Spicer, and it was a joy to have her involved as our headline speaker for our women’s leadership forum series. Tracey was adaptable and agile to our needs when creating the events, and the advice, stories, and lessons she shared with our audience were timely, engaging, and practical. Her presentations were always engaging, dynamic, informative, and personable, and her messages resonated with our audiences because they were relatable and honest. I highly recommend engaging Tracey for your event as she contributed greatly in making our events series a success.
Tracey is a total professional and provides so much value to any event she attends.
