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 2026, she’s one of the most sought-after speakers in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
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 and a regular writer for a number of platforms.
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. She has three young-adult children and lives by the beach with a dog named Frankie.
Currently reading
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
Currently studying
Happiness at Harvard University
Currently listening to
Emily Lubitz, Australian country singer
Currently planning
A horse trek in Mongolia and some exploration of Malaysia after speaking in Singapore
Currently making
Lucy spent two months in Africa chasing beautiful textiles so is now making rad fashion from traditional cotton Tanzanian Kitenge and Maasai Shuka.
Recent articles by Lucy Bloom
HUMANS OF TANZANIA – THAMRAT
When I arrived in Paje (pronounced paah-jeh) on the east coast of Zanzibar, I went directly to the beach to have my freckles blown off by a powerful onshore wind, straight off the Indian Ocean. The trade winds which made this place famous blow North East for the whole summer.
HUMANS OF TANZANIA – MUSSA
In another adventure off the beaten track, I met Mussa near a place called Bububu (go on, say it). I think it sounds like driving through pot holes. Bububu is a half hour drive from Stone Town in Zanzibar, Tanzania, through many, many pot holes. Mussa has a shop in town and I’d wandered in to look at the beautifully made batik dresses when next thing you know, I was signed up to learn the art of batik with the master himself.
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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.