The person who made Excel look like design.

I'm a data communications designer and the person behind Big Excel Energy and the free weekly Excel + Design newsletter, where every issue includes a beautifully designed, ready-to-use Excel template.

I've been named a Microsoft Excel MVP 3 times, I reach 485,000+ followers on TikTok as @bigexcelenergy, the newsletter is at 19,000+ subscribers, and my Excel templates have been downloaded nearly one million times (figures as of August 2026).

Before all this I cofounded Market.space, a competitive-intelligence platform I started in 2014 that was acquired in 2016. I came out of that pretty burnt out, spent a while abroad trying to figure out what was next, and realized the part of the work I'd actually loved was building dashboards.

These days I help brands and startups make their data matter through communication, psychology, and design - dashboards, report systems, and Excel templates for brands like Microsoft, Kellogg's, Philips, and Novo Nordisk, among others. And I was one of the earliest creators to build a big audience specifically around Excel as a visual design medium, mostly by making spreadsheets look good on camera.

My whole approach boils down to one idea: ugly dashboards don't get used. A report that's hard to read is a report nobody acts on. So I take the craft you'd expect from a product designer - layout, typography, visual hierarchy, chart design, interface patterns - and point it at the spreadsheet your team already lives in.

People describe the result as "making Excel look less like... Excel." It's the throughline across everything I publish: the templates, the newsletter, the dashboard reviews, the consulting.

I work with brands and analytics teams who want their Excel dashboards and reports to look designed - anywhere from quick async dashboard reviews to template customization to full consulting. If you mainly need formulas fixed, I'm the wrong person.

If you want to see what I actually make, the newsletter is the best place to start. I've sent out something like 35+ free templates and tutorials over the years, and every issue still includes a designed Excel file you can open and pull apart. It's free, and if it's not for you, unsubscribing takes one click.