Caspar Craven

Caspar Craven is a UK-based keynote speaker who helps organisations strengthen leadership, teamwork and mindset through lessons drawn from corporate finance, technology leadership and offshore sailing.

  • Five years in corporate finance at KPMG.
  • Held CFO-level roles in the technology sector.
  • Founded, scaled and exited technology businesses.
  • Completed two round-the-world sailing voyages, including the BT Global Challenge and a family circumnavigation.
  • Author of Where the Magic Happens, Be More Human: Rethinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork, and The Big Bold Mindset: Re-thinking the Rules of Leadership.

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Key speaking topics

  • Leadership mindset
  • High-performance teamwork
  • Business growth and exit
  • Resilience and adaptability
  • Decision-making under pressure
  • Personal accountability

Ideal for

  • Senior leadership teams
  • Executive conferences and leadership offsites
  • High-growth technology businesses
  • Organisations navigating change or performance pressure

Audience outcomes

  • Clear frameworks for high-performance teamwork
  • Practical insights on leadership under pressure
  • Greater clarity on mindset and accountability
  • Lessons on aligning teams behind ambitious goals

Why organisations work with Caspar Craven

  • Combines corporate finance and CFO experience with entrepreneurial and sailing leadership.
  • Brings practical insight from scaling and exiting technology businesses.
  • Draws on real-world experience of leading teams in high-risk, high-stakes environments.
  • Connects business performance with mindset, teamwork and execution.

Biography

Caspar Craven brings together corporate finance expertise, senior technology leadership and real-world entrepreneurial experience to help organisations strengthen leadership, teamwork and performance. With five years in corporate finance at KPMG and CFO-level roles in the technology sector, he understands the commercial pressures facing boards, founders and senior leadership teams.

As a technology entrepreneur, he has founded, scaled and exited businesses. This experience informs his practical perspective on growth, accountability and execution, particularly for organisations navigating expansion, transformation or high-performance demands.

Beyond the boardroom, Caspar has completed two round-the-world sailing voyages, including the BT Global Challenge and a family circumnavigation. Leading teams in challenging offshore conditions provides a powerful foundation for his work on resilience, clarity of roles, and decision-making under pressure.

He is the author of Where the Magic Happens, Be More Human: Rethinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork, and The Big Bold Mindset: Re-thinking the Rules of Leadership. Across his speaking and writing, he focuses on the mindset and behaviours required to align teams, sustain performance and deliver ambitious goals in complex environments.

Talks

The Big Bold Mindset: Why You Can’t Navigate a New World Using an Old Set of Charts

An exploration of the mindset shifts leaders and teams need in order to adapt to change and disruption, and to achieve ambitious goals in a fast-moving world, using principles and frameworks from The Big Bold Mindset®.

Key takeaways:

  • Clear principles to rethink leadership mindset in times of change and disruption
  • Practical, actionable frameworks to tackle hard challenges
  • Guidance on leading yourself and others when pursuing ambitious goals

Think Big. Think Bold. How to Achieve the Impossible

A focused session on the leadership and cultural shifts required to move big bold goals from impossible to possible, and to engage teams around a compelling vision for the future.

Key takeaways:

  • Insight into the mindset and culture shifts needed to achieve ambitious goals
  • Greater engagement around a shared future vision
  • Practical approaches to handling setbacks in challenging times

Be More Human: Put People First

A people-focused talk on unleashing the potential of teams by understanding what it means to be more human, shaping daily habits, and building resilience to achieve meaningful objectives.

Key takeaways:

  • Simple, actionable techniques for shaping daily habits and strengthening team resilience
  • Practical approaches to aligning individuals around overall objectives
  • Greater confidence in making brave decisions and working collaboratively

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Fantastic uplifting presentation at the GCA 2024 Conference for a second year running! Well done you smashed it…
The Garden Centre Association
Having very recently booked Caspar for one of my high profile client engagement events, I cannot recommend him highly enough. His talk was extremely engaging and exciting whilst at the same time delivering some key messages on winning teams which were so relevant for the audience. If you want a speaker who will make people listen and engage, Caspar is the one!
Holly Ainger
Marketing Director, Nuffield Health
I have organised and attended many speaking engagements in the past, but none have come close to being as engaging. Caspar managed to grip the attention of Burberry colleagues from all over the globe with his captivating stories and easy-to-follow practical steps deemed “worth its weight in gold” by the leadership team.
Hannah Maxted
Director of Communications, Burberry
Thank you so much for such an inspirational session. You challenged us to think Big and Bold, to take extreme ownership as we embark in being an independent company and to be resilient. The feedback from the team was amazing. We loved the provocation and all felt super inspired. Thank you!!
Sophie Rasmussenn
VP EMEA Essential Health and Sustainability, Johnson & Johnson
We were blown away by his charismatic presentation and experience in achieving Big Bold Goals with a human touch. Caspar was exceptional to work with. He hit the perfect balance between strategy and making it real for the team. We loved it!
Louisa Newlove
Head of Field Sales, Suntory
Caspar is an inspiration. His message of being more human and putting people first has definitely changed my management and leadership style. Having #bigboldgoals, focusing on we not me and doing all you can to get rid of those why nots is key to success. Caspar delivered an amazing, inspiring talk to 42 members of our senior leadership team and left them fired up to really deliver big goals.
Robert Brien
COO, Kloeckner Metals UK
We recently invited Caspar Craven to speak at the annual user conference for my company, Kareo. Caspar shared the lessons he learned through building a successful business while preparing for an extraordinarily audacious goal to sail around the world with his wife and three young children. It was an inspiring, uplifting, and enriching speech about leadership and life that made a profound impression on our customers, employees, and me. As a member of YPO, an international CEO organization, I've had the opportunity to hear many amazing speakers over the years and I think Caspar is among the best I've seen. I'm a big fan of Caspar and enthusiastically recommend him to leaders in business and community that want to create a unique and powerful experience at their next event.
Dan Rodrigues
Co-Founder and CEO, Tebra
Caspar, hi! End of a long but great day! You have been brilliant today, the team felt so inspired, they referenced your session so many times during the breakouts ideas presentations! Thank you so much!
VP, Europe Commercial Lead, GSK
Thanks so much for joining us today Caspar Craven, it was an absolute pleasure. You truly inspired our people to think and act differently!
Head of Learning, Intuit
You have inspired the whole team with your legendary and spectacular speech (for the second time in as many months). I have shared that with the VP of our Africa operations to contact you
Biomerieux
Caspar recently spoke at our virtual annual conference event and was a massive hit! His approachable, knowledgeable and practicable style meant that ‘Big Bold Goals’ resonated fantastically well on a very personal level, as well as aspirationally from a team and company culture perspective.
Board Director, Shared Services Forum UK
A privilege to have Caspar present at our Financial Services kick-off event. It’s how an ‘ordinary’ person can achieve the ‘extraordinary’ through thinking ‘big and bold’ which will inspire and motivate all!
Global MD, BAE Systems Inc
Caspar delivered an incredible keynote at our customer event. Seldom do I see speakers create such a level of engagement with their audience, I honestly believe people would have stayed for hours to ask questions! I cannot recommend him highly enough.
Head of Channel Management and Partner Enablement Sage
The feedback was phenomenal – he kept us captivated on how to achieve Big Bold Goals through effective high-performance teamwork.
Managing Director, Protiviti

Livros

The Big Bold Mindset: Re-thinking the Rules of Leadership
What does it take to be a leader today? To be a leader in times of exponential change where challenges come from every direction?…
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Be More Human - Rethinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork
What would it take to deliver extraordinary results and develop engaged high-performance teams as well as have a thriving family …
Where the Magic Happens: How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World
In June 2009, Caspar and Nichola created a plan to sail around the world with their young children. Most people thought they were…