Caspar Craven

Caspar Craven launched his first business that involved catching crabs and lobsters at the age of 14, and by the age of 16 he was exporting half a ton of crabs a week to Spain. Realising that catching crabs wasn't going to enable him to make the impact he desired, he went to university and for the next eight years, worked in the corporate sector — first as a Chartered Accountant and then as an Investment Banker at KPMG.

In 2000, Caspar signed up for what was called the world's toughest yacht race, the BT Global Challenge, and joined the Yacht Quadstone as the youngest crew member.

After winning trophies around the world and building a team as Watch Captain, he returned to KPMG to run a technology and telecoms team. In 2001, he resumed his working life as an e-commerce entrepreneur and raised money for, built, grew and sold businesses primarily in the technology sector.

In that time, Caspar made mistakes, he fell over and got up again and carried on. He's had some great successes and some great failures. In 2009, he and his wife hatched a plan to sail around the world with their young children and they spent the next 5 years planning how to make things happen.

Eventually, in 2016, they successfully completed their circumnavigation, having had to make heart-wrenching decisions and having experienced amazing highs and agonising lows on a seven yearlong voyage from idea to completion.

Caspar Craven's obsession is around setting, tackling and achieving big bold goals and the high-performance teamwork that underpins this. His goal is to bring the ideas, tools, strategies to teams so that they can set, tackle and achieve their big bold goals.

Caspar Craven now speaks on how to build and lead high-performance teams in times of change. Each talk is uniquely tailored for your audience drawing on 20 principles from his latest book Be more Human - Rethinking the Rules of High Performance Teamwork.

He understands, first hand, the importance of putting people first in order to achieve big bold goals. He understands because he’s made every mistake in the book on the way to achieving a number of big bold goals. He has lived what he talks about.

Audiences leave energised and with powerful takeaways that they can use immediately both at work and home as we adapt to a rapidly changing world.

His experience is from his time as an entrepreneur building and selling businesses, as an executive in large companies and also from having twice sailed around the world. His talks are story led which will take you on a journey where you can turn the impossible into the possible, leaving your team inspired and fired up for the times ahead, ready, willing and able to achieve your big bold goals.

How will you and your team achieve your big bold goals? What is the leadership, mindset, and culture that you need? What are the frameworks and principles you need to use together as a team?

Caspar Craven’s obsession is with what it takes to set, tackle and achieve big bold goals, and the leadership and teamwork needed to deliver them.

He understands, firsthand, 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.

To set, tackle and achieve your audacious goals, there is ONE distinctively human competitive advantage that you and your team must leverage…. the extraordinary skills within your people. It is the approach to leadership and teamwork that you adopt to unlock this that will shape the success of your organisation.

CULTURE - 87% of organisations cite culture and engagement as one of their top leadership challenges (Deloitte)

RESILIENCE - Teams who trust their leaders are 42 times more likely to be highly resilient (MIT Sloan) and yet recent research from Hubspot shows that 52% of people would trust a stranger before their manager!

AGILITY - Agile firms grow revenue 37% faster and generate 30% higher profits than non-agile firms (MIT). 

It’s time to think Big. It’s time to think Bold. It’s time to think Big Bold Goals.
Big Bold Goals stretch what we believe is possible.

When we set big bold goals, we also build a plan grounded in reality to achieve it. Goals like ‘5x or 10x’ not only engage and focus a team, they force us to get creative and innovate in ways we may not have otherwise considered.

A regular motivational keynote speaker at corporate events and conferences around the world both in person and virtually, Caspar Craven leaves audiences feeling energised, and with powerful takeaways that they can use immediately both at work and home. Actioning ideas is crucial as we adapt to today’s rapidly changing world.

A wide range of personal experiences began with his time as an entrepreneur building and selling businesses, as an executive in large companies and also from having twice sailed around the world.

His obsession with the leadership and teamwork needed to achieve big bold goals has taken him on a journey to research, study, interview, and learn from the most successful and audacious leaders on the planet, and the science and psychology that explains audacious leadership. Success leaves clues and it's the patterns and observations he’s found together with his own lived experiences that he shares with audiences.

Caspar’s talks are story led which will take you on a journey where you can turn the impossible into the possible, leaving your team inspired and fired up for the times ahead, ready, willing, and able to achieve your big bold goals.

The most popular topics Caspar Craven is speaking on right now are around:
• Achieve More Together
• How to Think as Leader
• The Future of Leadership
• Resilience and Adaptability
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Re-energising teams to tackle Big Bold Goals
• Virtual Leadership and Team Building
• Adapting and Prioritising in times of Change
• Self Leadership
• How to build teams to set and achieve Big Bold Goals