Hi, I’m Margot!
I help brands and the people who build them communicate with confidence.
When you need to unify the voice and increase engagement across channels (or at your biggest annual event!) bring me in to see results.
IN GOOD COMPANYCompanies
You’re ready to connect with your audience, but you realized something:
- You need a more strategic approach.
- Online, it means you need guidance for content development that brings your team together to manifest your brand in a concrete and operational way.
- Moreover, you need an expert who can help you instill structure in a sustainable way.
- On stage, it means you need a speaker who’s an expert at the craft and can provide both compelling inspiration and the actionable insights to make it real.
- You need someone who can help your audience envision castles in the air and then embrace a wealth of examples to put foundations under them.
- You need Margot Bloomstein.
Before there was PowerPoint, there was Posterboard!
I was the kid who constantly needed to express herself.
Visually and verbally, from the time I was little, I thrilled at any medium of expression. Paints? Poems? Let me get into the weeds. And if I got to be at a mic, all the better.
Whether I was in a spelling bee or the school play, I loved being on stage—and I’d gladly stick around after rehearsals to paint the sets if I wasn’t running off to work on the school newspaper.
Words and images both mattered to me, so in high school I started putting together a portfolio to apply to art schools. A mentor told me design was “like art you could make money at,” and there it was: a discipline with enough structure for this Virgo.
As it turned out, design as a form of problem solving taught me structure, pattern recognition skills, and the curiosity to ask questions and engage as a consultant.
Today, I still explore the world as a designer and creative director, solving problems by both visual and verbal means.
I thrill at helping my clients express themselves… and still love connecting with an audience from a mic as well.
A trusted advisor, providing advice and meaningful connections.
Margot developed Women Talk Design’s message architecture. She’s continued to be a trusted advisor, providing advice and meaningful connections. She’s been a guest facilitator for our public speaking programs, delivered captivating talks for our community, and recently contributed an essay to our public speaking book. I leave calls with Margot feeling optimistic, energized, and supported. And I always think, “Gosh, I should call Margot more often.”
Danielle Barnes
CEO, Women Talk Design
Considering bringing Margot in? Do it.
Collaborating with Margot leaves me empowered, inspired, and challenged to build better practices and resources for our professional community. Considering bringing Margot in? Do it. Your brand, your team, and your results will be better for it.
Bennie F. Johnson
CEO, American Marketing Association
Engaging audiences and other lessons from the county fair
Getting the attention of an audience is hard. But as I learned in 4-H, getting the attention of a walking, talking, moving audience, distracted and eager to see the racing pig exhibition? Even harder, an experience I wrote about in Present Yourself, the public speaking anthology from Women Talk Design.
Read the full excerptMarketing and publishing organizations frequently recognize Margot’s contributions to the industry:
Boston 40 Under 40, 2015, Boston Business Journal
Content Marketing Institute’s picks for the Ultimate Content Marketing Library
Media Features
You’ve made it this far down the page, so what else do you want to know?
Surprising talent?
I can say all the pronouns in under four seconds. And yes, it’s the party trick I’ll bust out at any party.
My passport is thicker than my suitcase. I’ve traveled extensively across four continents and more than 20 countries, and it’s been carry on only.
Unnecessary source of pride?
Author who helps me keep my head on straight?
Kurt Vonnegut.
Watercolor. Nothing is so ego-eviscerating as trying to think from negative space to positive. Wet media that defies structure? Sure. It’s teaching me to slow down, let go, and engage more fully with the world around me.
Most humbling learning experience?
What’s in my bag?
A small travel watercolor palette and sketchbook. Because there’s always time to slow down.
Rexy is a silly, sweet 80 pound white German Shepherd rescued through Echo Dogs Shepherd Rescue. He’s a generous editor.
Furry coworkers?
When I worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, my officemate was the Tyrannosaurus Rex skull, too heavy to be mounted on the actual skeleton.
When I worked at Godiva in college, I learned that any chocolate that is leaky, dented, or otherwise dinged up can’t go into the case—and ends up going home with employees.
Best parts of the job(s)?
Hometown?
Upstate New York, land of Freihofer’s chocolate chip cookies.
Boston for the past two decades, by way of Pittsburgh and peppered by stints in southern France. My heart is happily scattered.