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Everything a journalist, editor, or partner needs to write about Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer and Big Excel Energy — bios, brand names, key facts, approved descriptions, a headshot, links, and a press contact.

2× Microsoft Excel MVP · ~1M Excel files downloaded · 480K on TikTok · 20K newsletter subscribers

Big Excel Energy is an Excel design studio and education brand created by Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer, a 2× Microsoft Excel MVP. Through the free weekly Excel + Design newsletter, a 480K-follower TikTok, and design work for brands like Microsoft, Kellogg's, Philips, and Novo Nordisk, Josh is one of the earliest creators to build a large audience around Excel as a visual design medium — making dashboards, reports, and templates that look less like a spreadsheet.

Headshot & contact

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Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer — creator of Big Excel Energy and the Excel + Design newsletter, 2× Microsoft Excel MVP.

Press contact: [email protected]

Headshot: josh-portrait.png. Please credit "Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer / Big Excel Energy."

2×

Microsoft Excel MVP

~1M

Excel files downloaded

480K

Followers on TikTok

20K

Newsletter subscribers

The brands

Names & spelling

Big Excel Energy

The studio and education brand. Online as @bigexcelenergy.

Excel + Design

The free weekly newsletter — a designed Excel template in every issue.

Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer

Full name. Also known as Josh Cottrell-Schloemer.

2× Microsoft Excel MVP

Preferred way to describe the recognition.

Bios

Short & long bio

Short bio. Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer is the creator of Big Excel Energy and the Excel + Design newsletter — a 2× Microsoft Excel MVP who helped popularize Excel as a serious visual design medium.

Long bio. Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer is a data communications designer and the creator of Big Excel Energy and the free weekly Excel + Design newsletter, where every issue includes a beautifully designed, ready-to-use Excel template. A 2× Microsoft Excel MVP, he reaches 480,000 followers on TikTok as @bigexcelenergy, has 20,000 newsletter subscribers, and his Excel design files have been downloaded nearly one million times. Before Big Excel Energy, he cofounded Market.space, a competitive-intelligence platform he started in 2014 that was acquired in 2016. Today he helps brands and startups make their data matter through communication, psychology, and design, and has worked with teams at Microsoft, Kellogg's, Philips, and Novo Nordisk. He is one of the earliest creators to build a large audience specifically around Excel as a visual design medium.

For journalists

Approved one-line descriptions

Pull-quote-ready descriptions of what Josh does. Use any verbatim.

Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer makes Excel look like design — dashboards and reports that read like a polished product, not a grid of numbers.

He's a 2× Microsoft Excel MVP whose Excel design files have been downloaded nearly a million times.

Through Big Excel Energy, he teaches the craft of making spreadsheets look professional to an audience of 480,000 on TikTok.

His free Excel + Design newsletter ships a beautifully designed, ready-to-use Excel template every week to 20,000 subscribers.

He is one of the earliest creators to build a large audience around Excel as a visual design medium, working with brands like Microsoft, Kellogg's, Philips, and Novo Nordisk.

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