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I’m a creative strategist, enterprise architect, and brand counselor with thirty years of experience across the full arc of organizational communications \u2014 from identity design and advertising campaigns to enterprise-scale transformation strategy and AI-enabled operating system design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My career has not followed a straight line. It has followed a more interesting one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Creative Chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent the first decade of my professional life building The Bloom Agency \u2014 an award-winning creative and interactive agency in Washington, DC. We earned ADDY Golds, an AIGA 50 citation, an ADCNY Art Directors Award, and a Builder Magazine Website of the Year. More importantly, we built things that worked \u2014 and things that lasted. The screen47.com streaming platform concept we built in a Netscape 2.0 environment \u2014 before YouTube existed, before broadband made it viable \u2014 was the right idea at the wrong moment for the infrastructure. The Cavalier Telephone bluebird campaign won an ADDY Gold for animated effects and ran across broadcast, outdoor, print, and radio as one of the most fully integrated campaigns the agency produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My creative practice has always been rooted in conceptual precision \u2014 in finding the idea that makes everything else inevitable \u2014 built around a simple conviction: the most powerful work begins with a genuine human truth, not just a brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Enterprise Chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourteen years at Cisco Systems \u2014 first as Senior Learning Systems Engineer, then as Enterprise Business Architect, Technical Product Owner, and Simplification Program Manager \u2014 gave me something most creative strategists never develop: genuine enterprise-scale analytical discipline, global multi-sector fluency, and the ability to translate institutional strategy into execution at a scale that most agencies only advise on from the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I led worldwide programs. I managed globally distributed teams across Asia, Europe, North Africa, and the Americas. I designed and built learning systems, enterprise architectures, and simplification frameworks serving technical communities across four continents. I also completed the Wharton Executive Education Chief Strategy Officer Program during this chapter \u2014 and carried out several independent creative commissions alongside the day job, including the CubeSmart national brand identity that remains in active use across thousands of facilities today, and an identity system for Chronology Productions that earned a legitimate IMDb credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Current Chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am back at the intersection of creativity and strategy \u2014 not as someone returning from an absence, but as someone arriving with significantly more range than when I left. I hold Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ) and AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH) certifications and am actively engaged in applied research in Agentic AI systems using OpenClaw, exploring how autonomous agents can augment enterprise workflows, creative practice, and everyday productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thinking I’m developing \u2014 about connected enterprise architecture, Agentic AI operating systems, and the gap between strategy and organizational mobilization \u2014 is collected in the Strategy and AI section of this site. It reflects thirty years of watching organizations succeed and fail at the distance between a good idea and a working system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board Service and Advisory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I currently serve on the board of directors of V\u00e9locity Bicycle Co-op \u2014 a Washington, DC-area 501(c)(3) bicycle cooperative and community organization \u2014 where I hold the roles of Quartermaster and serve as the organization’s visual identity steward. Board service is not peripheral to my professional practice \u2014 it’s an expression of it. Governance requires the same skills that strategy requires: the ability to see the whole system, ask the right questions, hold the long view, and build the conditions for good decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am actively seeking additional board opportunities \u2014 particularly with organizations navigating brand and communications strategy, technology transformation, creative leadership, or strategic repositioning where an independent perspective at the governance level would add genuine value. If your organization is looking for a board member who can contribute analytically, creatively, and strategically, I’d welcome that conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credentials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wharton Executive Education \u2014 Chief Strategy Officer Program, 2025
Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ)
Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
Independent Study and Applied Research \u2014 Agentic AI Systems
American University \u2014 Major Graphic Design, Minor Marketing Communications<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

keith@keithbloom.com<\/a>
202-494-9333
linkedin.com\/in\/keithwbloom<\/a>
keithbloom.com\/creative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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