Lucy Bloom
Author & Creative Leadership Expert
Business and leadership strategist, storyteller, and creative powerhouse, Lucy Bloom inspires audiences with humour, captivating stories, and practical insights drawn from three decades of experience across diverse sectors.
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Lucy Bloom is a business dynamo, leadership trailblazer, and philanthropy powerhouse with a pink mohawk and a mission. Over three decades, Lucy has reinvented herself multiple times—building bold brands, leading charities, and inspiring audiences worldwide.
She founded a boutique advertising agency, earning a reputation for fearless strategy and creative thinking, before transitioning into the not-for-profit sector. As founding CEO of a women’s health charity, Lucy led a $7M fundraising campaign supporting hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia. She then transformed a Cambodian children’s charity, modernising its approach and turning it into a high-impact fundraising organisation.
Lucy is also the creative force behind a world-first education start-up, author of three books across different genres, host of her own podcast, and a regular contributor to online platforms. Recognised with multiple leadership and keynote speaking awards—including as a two-time Telstra Business Woman of the Year finalist—she is the only Australian ever named in the top 30 #socialceos.
Known for her relatable storytelling, infectious humour, and no-nonsense insights, Lucy Bloom captivates audiences by transforming her life and career experiences into actionable lessons in leadership, creativity, and impact. And yes, the pink mohawk? She’s rocked it since 2014—because she can.
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Why we buy: The science of sales
This up to 60 minute speech is all killer, no filler
Ah-ha moments: many
Lucy Bloom led a creative advertising agency for 20 years, developing the sales and marketing strategies for everything from concrete and bikinis to deodorant and luxury property. AND she’s raised millions for hospitals and health centres where the ‘buyer’ receives nothing but a warm fuzzy and a tax receipt.
In this speech, Lucy shows audiences how unstoppable sales come from the neuro-scientific gamification of the human preference to seek rapport, excitement and trust. That humans are a complex collection of cells chasing feelings and storytelling delivers those feelings with authenticity and delight.
Don’t just motivate your people to sell, equip them with the science to succeed.
Take homes include but not limited to:
- Learn how to approach sales by design rather that chance. It’s a numbers game but not the way you think it is
- Discover what we now know about the ‘brains behind the buy’ and why humans buy with emotion first and logic to justify thereafter
- See how you can trigger a common chemical reaction in the brain and turn this into connection, trust and FUN = loyalty
- See why stats don’t sell but stories do and what herd mentality has to do with successful sales and teamwork
- Discover the future of sales success including behavioural data-driven AI, predicting customer needs and the ethics of emotional manipulation
- This sales topic is best for meetings and conferences for any brand or industry because sales is a critical part of ANY business. Also ideal for Chambers of Commerce, major international franchises and ecommerce retailers. When you seek a sales speaker, Australia.
Future-proofing, innovation and AI
This up to 60 minute speech is all killer, no filler
Ah-ha moments: many
She’s the founder of a world-first education start-up, led a creative agency for two decades, disrupted the not-for-profit sector and consulted in China-Australia innovation. If new ideas fuel your engine and the future is where you’re headed, this is the conference speaker and the topic for you. Lucy Bloom is your futurist speaker, your innovator with a generous helping of Artificial Intelligence.
In this speech you’ll learn how to lead in order to create and inspire innovation with the mindset and tools of a futurist even within frameworks of structure and bureaucracy.
Lucy Bloom puts the turbo into harnessing new technologies for success. This speech shows you how to map where you’ve been and comprehend where to next with resolve, energy, focus and fun, with AI as your co-driver.
Take homes include but not limited to:
- Discover how to future-proof your self and your business with the collaboration of humanity and AI
- Learn how to take an idea from irritation to innovation with the mindset of a futurist
- Identify unexpected existing energy, motivations and momentum to ideate and propel new ideas
- Discover how connection and informality foster innovation better than big data and policy ever can
- Consider how courage and radical diversity will feed the innovation labs of the future
- See why forecasts are out and patterns are in and learn to spot a software sales pitch over a must-have AI solution for your business
- Best for leadership and innovation conferencing in any industry, associations and chambers of commerce, business awards night speech, creative industry events, CPD days, educators and leaders keen to govern the AI and innovation journey to futureproof their organisations with confidence. Your AI speaker, Australia and NZ.
Doing Business Differently
This up to 60 minute speech is all killer, no filler
Laughs per minute: high
This is Lucy’s most booked speech topic of all time, for so many reasons. This preso is adapted to your event goals and audience profile. It includes universally relatable themes with the neuroscience and real-life examples to back it all up.
From prison officers to senior executives, nurses to mortgage brokers, employees and business owners: this topic hits hard in all the right places and Lucy is the keynote speaker to deliver it.
If you want your delegates feeling motivated, inspired and ready to conquer, with a speaker who has the business acumen and life experience to bring it all home, this is the topic and the keynote speaker for you.
Take-homes include but not limited to:
- Discover how your thoughts can be your biggest health problem and how to wrangle them for success
- Learn how chasing squirrels delivers valuable skillsets, life-changing joy and career highlights
- Gain access to courage in the same way that the military takes a new recruit afraid of heights and turns them into a paratrooper
- Consider resilience not as a rare talent but as a key decision you make when set-backs change your life story
- See how kindness to others extends your life expectancy and boosts productivity
- Learn how and why change should be something you should seek daily rather than avoid
- Understand why fun is not a luxury but one of the most important keys to team work, longevity and robust mental health
- Best for motivational business speaker briefs, inspirational life story speech, business awards night speech, industry event speech, team offsite speech, wellness and mental health session, opening motivational business speaker or closing motivational business speaker.
