Global keynote speaker
3 x published author
Creative leadership expert
About
Lucy Bloom
She’s a business dynamo, a leadership trailblazer and a philanthropy powerhouse with a pink mohawk and a mission. Lucy’s career has spanned three decades and just as many reinventions, Lucy doesn’t just break the mould, she drop-kicks it. And in 2025, she’s one of Australia’s most sought-after speakers…
Lucy built a boutique advertising agency (by accident) and then ran it for 20 years, earning a rep for bold creative thinking and fearless strategy. She switched gears when she was recruited into the not-for-profit world as the founding CEO of a women’s health charity. In just under three years, she led a wildly successful $7M fundraising campaign for a network of hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia.
She was then headhunted to lead a Cambodian children’s charity, transforming it into a fundraising machine and taking it swiftly from an orphanage model to a modern, community-first approach.
Lucy Bloom is the creative brains behind a world-first education start-up, the author of three books in three genres, host of her own podcast show, and a regular writer for a number of online platforms.
Her peers have recognised Lucy with leadership and keynote speaking awards, including as a two-time finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards. And she’s the only Aussie ever named in the top 30 #socialceos.
Lucy’s superpower is taking her significant life experiences and distilling them into memorable, relatable storytelling on stage with a cracking sense of humour.
And what’s with the rad hair? She’s had a pink mohawk since 2014 because she can.
Lucy Bloom has so much energy on stage. She is extremely relatable, and the audience enjoyed every minute with her. What an inspiration.
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Off-duty Lucy
When she’s not boarding a plane to a really cool conference location, preparing for the next speech or researching an article, Lucy Bloom seeks maximum time in nature. Lucy has three children who are fast-becoming young adults. She lives by the beach in Sydney with her French Bulldog, Frankie.
Currently reading
Wild at Heart by Aliénor le Gouvello
Currently studying
Happiness at Harvard University
Currently listening to
The Huberman Podcast and Beyoncé’s banging country album
Currently planning
Adventures in Botswana
Currently making
Went to Japan to learn Sashiko and now mending on an old pair of jeans with this ancient technique
Recent articles by Lucy Bloom
From Doom Scroll to Bloom Scroll
A couple of months ago, I created a new Instagram account. A fresh start. Then I followed only one type of account: ART. Something cool happened.
The 7 signs of ageing
This headline doesn’t sound like me at all. She’s been hacked! The ‘seven signs of ageing’ have been a marketing ploy my whole life. Normal skin characteristics like ‘visible pores’ have become features that big brands like Olay and Nivea have turned into a problem.
Protest fashion: how the humble T shirt became an agent of change
Women have been using fashion to protest oppression since the suffragettes owned the colour purple, but it was the good ol’ fashioned T-shirt and screenprinting technology that delivered a relatively cheap billboard for rage, writes Lucy Bloom.
Lucy Bloom's memoir
Every good speaker has a killer back story and Lucy’s will blow your hair back, guaranteed. Her memoir, Get the Girls Out, is a five-star favourite with readers and event delegates who love a real-life story of triumph over the kind of obstacles you just can’t make up.
Lucy’s is a hopeful story that shows how life’s major smackdowns, though horrid, usually create a nice big void for something much better to come along. It also leaves you with the realisation that bucket lists are usually just travel guides and life is far more imaginative when you give it a go and let it unfurl.
She was born in Africa, can ride a horse to a professional level, and has worked in interesting places like the advertising industry and Ethiopia. Lucy Bloom is funny, frank and full of beans. Her memoir is all that and more.