Charles Brice
Award-Winning Journalist | Media Coach | Communications Specialist
Charles Brice is an ABC News Breakfast reporter, resilience speaker, and spinal cord injury advocate whose life changed instantly at 19 after a motorbike accident left him quadriplegic. What followed wasn’t a retreat, it was a rebuild. Charles redirected his drive into journalism, becoming a trusted national voice, while also rising to the top of elite para-sport as a six-time national handcycling champion. Today, he speaks with honesty and authority about adversity, inclusion, leadership under pressure, and redefining what’s possible when life forces a hard reset.
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• Resilience after life-altering trauma
• Redefining identity when everything changes
• Performing under pressure in unpredictable environments
• Disability, inclusion, and real-world accessibility
• Turning adversity into purpose and impact
• Mental strength, discipline, and long-term recovery
• Why resilience isn’t motivational, it’s built through discipline and daily decisions
• Rebuilding identity after a life-altering event
• Performing under pressure when there’s no margin for error
• What real inclusion looks like beyond policies and slogans
• The hidden cost of ignoring accessibility in organisations
• Turning adversity into purpose without toxic positivity
• Lessons elite sport teaches about focus, recovery, and consistency
• How perspective reshapes leadership, culture, and performance
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About Charles
Charles Brice is an ABC News Breakfast reporter, resilience speaker, and spinal cord injury advocate whose life was permanently changed at 19 after a motorbike accident left him quadriplegic. Instead of retreating, Charles rebuilt, redirecting his drive into journalism, elite para-sport, and advocacy.
He went on to become a trusted national media voice, a six-time national handcycling champion, and a powerful speaker on resilience, inclusion, and performance under pressure. Charles brings lived experience, credibility, and perspective to every conversation, cutting through theory to deliver grounded insights on adversity, identity, and what it really takes to move forward when life doesn’t go to plan.