Big Excel Energy is an Excel design studio and education brand created by Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer. The work focuses on Excel dashboard design, report design, spreadsheet interfaces, and templates that make Excel look less like a spreadsheet and more like a polished communication product. Josh is a 2× Microsoft Excel MVP, and his Excel templates have been downloaded nearly one million times.
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 templates 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 helped brands like 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.
What Josh does
- Excel dashboard design & redesign — making executive dashboards and reports look polished, modern, and presentation-ready.
- Excel templates — dashboards, charts, and report templates you can buy once, with no subscription.
- Consulting, reviews & template customization for brands and analytics teams that want their spreadsheets to look designed.
- Teaching Excel design on TikTok, YouTube, Patreon, and the Excel + Design newsletter.
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