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Lucy
Bloom

Creative Leadership Expert

The best ideas in the world go nowhere without trust.

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Lucy Bloom is a change maker, exceptional communicator and business fixer who lights up stages all over the world. No one forgets a keynote speech by Lucy Bloom.

She led an advertising agency 20 years before becoming the CEO of two international aid organisations, one in Ethiopia and the next in Cambodia. She now consults as a creative gun and strategy machine for start ups, not-for-profits and big business.

You will find Lucy Bloom challenging and entertaining in equal measure. She’s a rule breaker, idea maker and momentum creator inspiring audiences with humour and captivating storytelling, with the business acumen to fortify an unforgettable message.

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Talking Points

Doing Business Differently

This is Lucy’s most booked speech topic of all time. This presentation is adapted to your audience profile and 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 and longevity

Best for motivational speech, inspirational life story speech, business awards night speech, industry event speech, team offsite speech, wellness and mindset session.

Futurist Innovation Thinking

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.

Discover what’s in store as the world adopts and adapts to technologies that are radically changing the way we plan and innovate. 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.

Take homes include but not limited to:
- 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 to propel innovation with an understanding of the three types of Artificial intelligence (AI) already available to you in the systems you run
- See how systematic resistance to change is the single biggest innovation killer and learn how to side-step it, even within major bureaucracies
- 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

Best for leadership and innovation conferencing in any industry, associations and chambers of commerce, business awards night speech, creative industry events, CPD days

Why AI? And Other Queries

As a business builder, start-up innovator and the successful leader of several companies, Lucy Bloom puts the turbo into harnessing new technologies for success. You might know where you are headed, but have you considered all three types of AI? This speech shows you how to map where you’ve been and comprehend where to next with resolve, energy, focus and fun, with AI in your arsenal.

This speech will have your delegates reconsidering their business planning for success, picturing their specific industry with new eyes and tools, busting to put it all into practice.

Take homes include but not limited to:
- Understand all three kinds of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how you can wrangle them for profit and efficiency
- Discover why forecasts are out and patterns are in
- Learn to spot a software sales pitch over a must-have AI solution for your business
- Learn how to focus your best resources: you, your team and the business as a whole, like The Terminator
- Learn from business cases how human error is never quite as catastrophic as machine error
- Discover why inclusivity is a commercial necessity of the future rather than a luxury of big business and why AI fails at this

Best for conferencing in any industry, associations and chambers of commerce, business upskilling, CPD days, educators and leaders keen to govern the AI journey for their organisations with confidence

Your Master of Ceremonies

MORE THAN A KEYNOTE SPEAKER.

As your MC, Lucy creates the pace and atmosphere that carries your event from WELCOME right through to GOOD NIGHT. Awards nights MC, Gala Dinner MC, conference MC – Lucy and her lucky clipboard create the glue and momentum to deliver very special events with energy and fun.
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From the minute Lucy started speaking, the whole audience was captivated. Her ability to incorporate humour and compassion into a clear business message is unlike no other! Highly recommended speaker. ANZ

Lucy Bloom delivered an incredibly inspiring, entertaining and authentic presentation at our conference series. She was professional, flexible and creative in tailoring her presentation for the audience. It was a pleasure working with Lucy.

Julienne Price, Commonwealth Bank

I'm a speaker's coach and Lucy Bloom is the best speaker I have ever heard.

Brett De Hoedt, Hootville

Some presentations really REACH their audience “ Lucy has that preciously rare skill. I was so moved, and so inspired! Brava!

Steph Burgess, Connecting Up Conference
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