Caspar Craven
Caspar Craven is a leading authority on the Mindset needed to achieve Big Bold Goals through Effective Leadership and Teamwork. A serial entrepreneur, he has built and sold a tech business for a 7 figure sum, worked as a CFO and at KPMG. He has twice sailed round the world – the first time as a team leader on a trophy winning racing yacht in the BT Global Challenge in 2000/1 and the second time as captain and team leader of his family team in 2014/16 with his wife and three young children under 10 years of age.
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What Caspar Craven's clients say
"Fantastic uplifting presentation at the GCA 2024 Conference for a second year running! Well done you smashed it…"
"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!"
"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."
"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!!"
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"Thanks so much for joining us today Caspar Craven, it was an absolute pleasure. You truly inspired our people to think and act differently!"
"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"
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"The feedback was phenomenal – he kept us captivated on how to achieve Big Bold Goals through effective high-performance teamwork."
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Caspar Craven's 2024 biography
Caspar Craven – Leading Authority on the Mindset needed to Achieve Big Bold Goals through effective Leadership and Teamwork
Caspar delivers transformational thought-provoking experiences that will leave your audience feeling inspired and provides real actionable takeaways to help you achieve your big bold goals by putting people first.
He understands first hand, the importance of putting people first in order to achieve big bold goals. He understands because he has made every mistake in the book on the way to achieving a number of big bold goals. He has lived what he talks about.
His experience comes from building and selling a tech business for a 7 figure sum, working as a CFO and 5 years working at KPMG, and also from twice sailing round the world – the first time as a team leader on a trophy winning racing yacht in the BT Global Challenge in 2000/1 and the second time as captain and team leader of his family team in 2014/16 with his wife and three young children under 10 years of age.
The insights he delivers apply equally to building thriving teams both at work and at home – by bringing in these ideas around our family and home teams, he appeals to audiences globally.
He gets booked and rebooked because he’s relatable and delivers a thought-provoking experience with humility and humour. Talks that are highly memorable and still get referred to years later by clients, not just a talk that inspires people on the day.
Caspar is obsessed with setting, tackling and achieving big and bold. Until you start thinking big and bold, you and your team will keep repeating the same incremental changes. It’s impossible to change the game and breakthrough until you fully think and embrace big and bold.
He’s a Best Selling Bloomsbury Author and in writing his recent books, “The Big Bold Mindset® – Rethinking the rules of Leadership” and “Be More Human – Rethinking the rules of high-performance teamwork”, he’s been on a journey to research, study, interview, and learn from some of the most successful leaders in the world.
Success leaves clues and it’s these patterns, insights, and stories that he will bring to your audience to give them a transformational experience, not just a talk.
Caspar understands, first hand, the importance of putting people first in order to get results.
He understands because he has made every mistake in the book on the way to achieving a number of personal big bold goals. He has genuinely lived what he talks about as a serial entrepreneur, CFO and also as an adventurer, having twice sailed round the world.
Articles and podcasts
Caspar Craven's 2024 talks & topics
The Big Bold Mindset: Why You Can’t Navigate a New World Using an Old Set of Charts
What are the mindset shifts needed by leaders and teams to achieve your Big Bold Goals?
Using techniques from his latest book The Big Bold Mindset® Caspar explores why we need to think differently to adapt to change and disruption to thrive in a fast moving world.
Caspar shares a series of principles and a set of easily actionable frameworks to guide ambitious leaders at all levels, on the mindset needed to lead ourselves and lead others when it comes to tackling hard challenges.
Think Big. Think Bold. How to Achieve the Impossible
Caspar explores what shifts in leadership mindset and culture is needed to achieve Big Bold Goals, in order to move from impossible to possible.
Caspar can create engagement with your team around your vision of the future to form the crucial mindset shift needed to handle setbacks in challenging times in a way that catapults you past your competitors.
Be More Human: Put People First
Caspar Craven takes you on a journey to discover the power of unleashing the most potent force in your organisation, your people, through understanding what it means to be more human.
He understands, first-hand, the importance of putting people first in order to achieve big bold goals. He understands because he has made every mistake in the book on the way to achieving a number of big bold goals. He has truly lived what he talks about.
Caspar explores some simple actionable techniques for shaping your daily habits and building resilience as a team. And how to empower each person to feel aligned and ignited when it comes to overall objectives, to make brave decisions and work collaboratively.
Big Bold Goals – How to Achieve the Impossible
This talk takes audiences on a journey on how to set, tackle and achieve big bold goals and how to engage and build teams in order to create success against the odds. In a time when businesses and people are being challenged the world over, this talk leaves audiences inspired and energised and with practical take-aways they can action immediately. In an online world, this talk is devised with interaction in mind to keep audiences engaged for every moment.
Be More Human – Rethinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork
This talk draws together Caspar’s experiences, mistakes and insights in building teams and covers how organisations more than ever need to be putting humanity, humility and empathy at the heart of how teams are built and led. The talk is full of memorable stories and impactful take-aways drawn from the twenty core principles in Caspar’s book “Be More Human”.
Time to Change Tack – Adapting in Times of Crisis
This talk shares stories, strategies and ideas on how to adapt in times of crisis. Audiences will leave with fresh ideas and inspiration on how to be more resilient, how to work together to positively adapt to change and where to look for opportunity. The ideas in this session are tailored to and highly relevant to the times we currently live in.
Caspar Craven's 2024 speaking fees
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