Caspar Craven

Caspar Craven has over 30 years’ experience in building teams to make things happen, and has vast experience in a range of companies and environments. He’s consistently found that the most successful leaders and teams are the one who recognise we are all building two teams: a work team and a home team.

He has worked with companies big and small, worked in professional services for over a decade, including five years at KPMG Corporate Finance, has been a CFO and CEO, and has built-up a number of his own highly successful start-ups, one of which he sold for a seven-figure sum.

He has sailed twice around the world – the first time on the Yacht Quadstone for the BT Global Challenge Yacht race, and the second with his family team, his wife and three children under the age of 10.

Caspar’s USP is with setting, tackling and achieving big and bold goals. He is a best-selling author, highly popular face in the media, intrepid explorer and passionate keynote speaker.

In his speeches, he reveals to audiences a rarely discussed ‘secret to success’ for business and for families, which involves applying work values to home, and home values to work, for the betterment of both. Audiences come away empowered to thrive and live their best lives both at work and at home.

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More About Caspar Craven

Caspar Craven launched his first business when he was 14, catching and selling crabs and lobsters, and by the time he was 16, he was exporting ½ tonne of crabs every week to Spain. Realising that catching shellfish wasn’t going to make a big impact on the world, he went to University and for the next eight years, he worked in the corporate world before launching his own successful speaking company.

He is self-confessed obsessed with what it takes to, not only achieve big goals, but to initially set them and to tackle them head-on. He understands that, no matter how important a job might be, the person must come first, otherwise no goal can be met. And by putting people first, he acknowledges that human error is a possibility – mainly because he’s lived through it. He’s made every mistake in the book, and instead of hindering his success, it helped it grow.

This obsession with teamwork, leadership and people have led him to carry out his own research into successful leaders, and look into how one’s psychology can impact upon success.

CASPAR CRAVEN – SPEAKING

Now a regular speaker at large global corporate events, Caspar’s talks provide audience members with powerful takeaways they can immediately implement, as well as entertaining them with his honest anecdotes.

Each and every live or virtual talk Casper does aims to inspire audiences and empower them to succeed. He aims to push the importance of teamwork and good leadership through his story-led sessions.

Drawing on Caspar’s set of 20 core principles laid out in his book Be More Human – Rethinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork, success moments are delivered through powerful stories with impactful insights on how we can all become better and building winning teams; by being more human and putting people first.

Each of Caspar’s talks are bespoke and customised to the specific audience and challenges they are facing, firstly having agreed upon a message, story and insights that will be most relevant for your audience at the time. The intended result is that audiences come away empowered to thrive and to deliver high-performance teamwork whilst living their best professional and personal lives.

CASPAR CRAVEN – SPEAKER KEYNOTE TOPICS

Think Big. Think Bold. How to Achieve the Impossible.

Topics: leadership, high-performance teamwork, ambitious goal

Perfect For: Sales kick offs, annual kick offs, industry and association events, inspirational speaker series, customer events

Michelangelo once said, “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark”.

In a time when 87% of organisations cite culture and engagement as one of their top leadership challenges (Deloitte Research), how do you galvanise your team to set, tackle and achieve goals that others dismiss as impossible?

In this tailored, visual and highly memorable keynote, Caspar Craven takes your audience on a journey fuelled with humility, stories and humour to discover the power of unleashing the extraordinary human potential in every person in your organisation. The journey is one of understanding what it takes to engage and unite a team behind a compelling vision of the future.

Your audience will learn:

– How to create engagement around your vision of the future
– The crucial mindset shift needed to tackle any ambitious goal
– How to handle setbacks in challenging times in a way that catapults you past your competitors
– Simple actionable techniques to understand the driving forces for each person on your team
– How to create high-performance teamwork as the standard for your team.

Be More Human: Re-Thinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork.

Topics: leadership, teamwork, mental health, humanising the workforce, ambitious goals

Perfect For: Employee teamwork and collaboration events, global conferences, client-facing events, corporate meetings, associations

The world and business are changing daily through disruption to the way we work and changing business models. Deloitte Human Capital Trends found that despite the billions spent annually on Leadership Development, 80% of the programmes simply did not work. The message is clear: there is one competitive advantage above all else that you and your business must develop – your people.

In this tailored, visual and highly memorable keynote, Caspar Craven takes your audience on a journey to discover the power of unleashing the most potent force in your organisation through understanding what it means to be more human. Your audience will learn:

– Why it has to be people first and results will follow
– New ways to build the resilience and commitment of your team
– New techniques for learning and skills acquisition
– How to move from a blame culture to building trust
– Simple actionable techniques for shaping daily habits for the team

Time to Change Tack: Developing Agility and Resilience.

Topics: resilience, change, agility, culture, transformation, leadership, high-performance teamwork

Perfect For: Internal leadership events, customer and user conference, association, industry

Disruption is everywhere as business and the world evolves at the speed of light. Change is no longer an optional idea, it’s an essential skill set that needs to run through every organisation.

Research by MIT found that agile firms grow revenue 37% faster and generate 30% higher profits than non-agile firms. What does it take to create a resilient and agile workforce that can outperform your competition and attract and retain the best talent and clients?

In this tailored, visual and highly memorable keynote, Caspar Craven takes your audience on a journey to discover what it takes to create a resilient and agile workforce capable of achieving ambitious goals in the face of a fast moving disruptive market. Your audience will learn:

– How to alter course and keep your team on board in uncertain/changing conditions
– Learn how to side step emotional black holes and take extreme ownership in any situation
– Develop strategies to uncover and harness hidden skills in your team.
– Empower your teams to make brave decisions and learn why change can be the best thing for your business
– Simple actionable techniques for shaping daily habits for the team
– How to move from a blame culture to building trust

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CASPAR CRAVEN – OTHER CURRENT TALKS

– How to Think as a Leader

– Winning in Adversity

– The Future of Leadership

– Winning Together

– High-Performance Teamwork for Audacious Goals

– Building Resilient Teams

CASPAR CRAVEN – PREVIOUS SPEAKING TOPICS

– Charting Success – 8 Steps to Building Winning Teams

– Team Dynamics in a Changing World

– Transform the Culture in your Business

– Embrace the Storm – How to Build Resilient Teams

– Thrive – Build Your Thriving Teams

– Autonomy – How to Build a Business Capable of Running Without You

– Leadership and Mental Health – How to Lead in Changing Times

– Life is Tough: Together we are Tougher

– How to Achieve the Impossible

– The Rules of High Performance Teamwork

– Adapting in Times of Crisis

– How to Navigate a Winning Team

– How to Manage Risk in Life and Business

– How to Move From Idea to Outcome

– Transforming Culture in Business

YOUR TAKEAWAYS AFTER SPENDING TIME WITH CASPAR CRAVEN

You and your audience will leave feeling inspired, energetic and informed, armed with practical ideas that you can implement immediately to generate impact in your business, such as:

– New ways to uncover and use hidden skills in your team and to inspire people to play to their new strengths

– Specific steps to take so you can move from having an idea, to planning it out, to creating a winning outcome

– Techniques on how to shape a team that can respond positively to obstacles and deal with all challenges the business throws at them

– Fresh ways to drive innovation within your business

CASPAR CRAVEN – WRITING AND THE MEDIA

Caspar has contributed to a number of television and radio shows, as well as printed media publications including CNN, WGN Morning News and BBC Radio 2, Financial Times, The Economist, MarketingWeek, New York Post, The Daily Express, The Independent, The Telegraph, Management Today, The Guardian and Forbes.

Caspar has transferred his knowledge into a number of highly successful books over the years:

Big Bold Goals – Put People First and Results Will Follow sets out the 20 principles that ambitious leaders and their teams require in order to achieve ambitious goals.

Be More Human – Rethinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork (2020) draws on personal experiences to provide a blueprint for how any organisation can tackle its big bold goals.

Where the Magic Happens (2018) tells Caspar’s story about how he built a thriving work team as well as a thriving family team.

WHY SHOULD YOU HIRE CASPAR CRAVEN AS YOUR MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER?

He’s trustworthy. Leading global organisations such as Sage and Nuffield Health trust Caspar to be their motivational speaker for both live and online events.

He’s all-encompassing. Caspar sets out to inspire, educate and entertain your audience, before leaving them with actionable takeaways for their personal and professional lives.

He’s experienced. Caspar has spoken at hundreds of events for hundreds of big and small companies; he knows what success looks like, and he will work with you to ensure you succeed.

He’s personable. Caspar will attend your event – be it in person or virtual – in full, will listen to other speeches, answer all questions and engage with your attendees.

He’s entrepreneurial. Caspar’s background as an executive in large businesses and selling his own successful global companies means he has a large amount of knowledge to share.

He has a unique approach. Each and every session Caspar carries out is crafted for you and tailored to your individual business challenges and goals.

Caspar Craven Clients

BAE Systems, Cohesive Communications, DataCore Software, Indagate Group, Kareo, Nuffield Health, Pearson, piXL Leadership, PRogress UK, Sage, SalesFroce, Vistage, Wellers Accountants and WPM Education

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Testimonials

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 their weight in gold” by the leadership team.
Hannah Maxted, Senior Internal Communications Manager, Burberry

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

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, Johnson and Johnson

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, Acting Marketing Director/Head of Marketing, B2B at Nuffield Health

Caspar is a fascinating and engaging speaker who I would not hesitate to recommend.
Matt Austin, Head of People Experience, Reward and Recognition at Deep Mind

I recently attended a talk by Caspar during a Reward conference in Barcelona. I went into the session with a bit of apprehension as I had often seen these sessions devolving into sermons. Not this one though. A brilliant speaker and an inspiring orator, Caspar had carefully structured the talk with his own life events providing meaningful learnings that one could then incorporate in either their professional or personal lives.
Ayan Majumdar, Director, Total Rewards at Pearson

Caspar is a consummate professional and one of the safest pair of hands on the speaking circuit. He did a superb job at our annual awards for 470 of the small business and investment community. An insightful, genuine and inspirational storyteller that was bang on message for the evening.
Guy Tolhurst, Small Business Champion, Mentor and Leading Practitioner on SME and Alternative Investment

Caspar was our opening keynote at the Rewards and Benefits Summit, an event that attracts an audience of senior HR professionals. He delivered a sensational presentation that both engaged and inspired our delegates. I’d highly recommend Caspar.
Georgina Kelly, MD Summit Events

I recently engaged Caspar to speak at our DataCore Sales kick-off in Malta. Caspar did an excellent job engaging the entire team. It was a tough audience consisting of 85 sales people from nine countries with the majority not having English as their first language. The feedback from the team was overwhelmingly positive. Caspar provides a balance of practical advice and inspiration, the delivery is authentic and entertaining. I highly recommend Caspar.
Amanda Bedborough, SVP Operations EMEA DataCore

We invited Caspar in as part of our quarterly speaker programme which is designed to stretch the thinking of leaders across our organisation. In the five years of running the programme Caspar is one of the most inspiring people we’ve heard from, offering us a fresh perspective on leadership and working better as a team. As well as being very entertaining, the talk was highly relevant to our business and our employees left buzzing with tangible takeaways. I thoroughly recommend Caspar as a speaker.
Chloe Marsh, Head of Communications, RHP Group