The best ideas in the world go nowhere without trust.
Lucy Bloom is a dynamic leader who has built a career on bold ideas and fearless execution. She ran a successful advertising agency for 20 years before stepping into the CEO role at two international aid organisations, driving life-changing projects in Ethiopia and Cambodia. Today, Lucy consults as a creative strategist for start-ups, not-for-profits and big business, helping organisations unlock innovation and momentum.
Known for her energy, humour and captivating storytelling, Lucy is a rule breaker and idea maker who inspires audiences to think differently and act decisively. Her extraordinary journey spans jillarooing on a cattle farm, leading maternity hospital initiatives in Africa, and negotiating strategy from the back of a tuk-tuk. Every experience has shaped her unique perspective on resilience, leadership and transformation.
Talking Points
Why we buy: The science of sales
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. Why we buy: The science of sales
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. 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.
Key takeaways:
- Learn how to approach sales by design rather than 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 e-commerce retailers.
Future-proofing, innovation and A
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.Future-proofing, innovation and A
In this speech, you’ll learn how to lead, 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.
Key takeaways:
- Discover how to future-proof yourself 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 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 neuroscience and real-life examples to back it all up. Doing Business Differently
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 to feel 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.
Key takeaways:
- 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 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 setbacks 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 teamwork, 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.
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Lucy Bloom | Saxton Speakers
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 recommende ... keep reading ANZ
We could have listened to Lucy for hours and still not even scratched the surface of the great messages she has to share.
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.
I'm a speaker's coach and Lucy Bloom is the best speaker I have ever heard.
Some presentations really REACH their audience Lucy has that preciously rare skill. I was so moved, and so inspired! Brava!
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