Caspar Craven: Leadership Speaker
Transformational Leadership for a World That Won’t Stand Still
Caspar Craven is a leadership speaker known for delivering thought-provoking, story-driven keynotes that shift how leaders think, decide, communicate, and collaborate. His talks blend real-world leadership experience, research, and the bold, practical insights leaders need to thrive in times of uncertainty and rapid change.
He helps leaders at all levels to think more boldly, act more courageously, and to collaborate better under pressure.
Caspar’s approach has been shaped by a life of unconventional leadership experiences: Twice sailing around the world (once competitively, once with his wife and their three children under ten), serving as a CFO of a business sold to Private Equity, working as a Director at KPMG, and building, scaling, and selling his own technology business.
These contrasting worlds of high-performance business and high-pressure adventure form the foundation of the leadership insights he brings to organisations today.
Leadership at a Glance
Caspar Craven brings together experience from three distinct leadership worlds:
• Corporate: CFO of a business sold to Private Equity and former Director at KPMG.
• Entrepreneurial: Built and sold a technology company and advised scale-ups through complex growth.
• Extreme environments: Twice sailed around the world, learning how teams perform under real pressure.
This rare blend shapes the practical, human-centred leadership approach he brings to senior teams today.
Caspar is also the author of The Big Bold Mindset and speaks regularly at global leadership events for organisations including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, and GSK.
Organisations bring Caspar in when they need their leaders to step up, think boldly, and deliver ambitious results in times of change.
Why World Class Teams Book Caspar as Their Leadership Speaker
Caspar’s leadership keynotes create a shift in how people think, not just how they feel. Caspar is trusted by global brands because he delivers more than inspiration. He delivers a shift.
Leaders don’t just leave energised. They leave with clarity, tools, and the mindset they need to navigate uncertainty and achieve bold ambitions. Every keynote is crafted to the specific context, challenges and outcomes clients are focused on.
His talks draw on:
The Big Bold Mindset — 20 principles for bold leadership (His latest book)
The latest science and research
High-impact, story-led teaching
Practical tools that leaders can apply immediately
And he delivers it all with humility, humour, and a relatable style that audiences remember for years.
World Class Organisations Trust Caspar
“Cargotec/ Kalmar
We had the pleasure of Caspar as our motivational leadership keynote speaker on transformation during our global supply chain transformation kick-off, adding the perfect spice to our programme and making the impossible possible. Thank you for motivating and energising our team! ”
“Intuit
He delivered an inspiring and motivational keynote that perfectly captured our brief. He took time to understand our message and married it perfectly with his own content and storytelling.
He left a lasting impact, inspiring our team to strive for excellence. Highly recommended for any event!
”
“Garden Centre Association
Caspar has come to speak to the annual conference of the Garden Centre Association on two occasions now and has always gone down a storm.
He pitches his presentation perfectly to be both entertaining and carry a really strong message that is easy to adapt to your own work/life situation. ”
The Science Behind Caspar’s Approach
Caspar’s work focuses on closing the gaps that hold organisations back: clarity, trust, collaboration, and alignment. Recent research reinforces this:
MIT Sloan: teams who trust their leaders are 42 times more likely to be highly resilient.
Deloitte: 87% of organisations cite internal culture and engagement as their top challenge.
Harvard Business Review: more than 70% of staff say they don’t have all the skills their job requires — leadership and communication sit at the centre of that gap.
Caspar’s keynotes and workshops give leaders the mindset, tools and behaviours to bridge these gaps immediately.
The Outcomes you can expect from hiring Caspar as your leadership speaker
Hiring Caspar as your leadership speaker helps leaders move from firefighting and siloed thinking to clarity, ownership, and aligned execution. Typical outcomes include:
Create deep engagement around your vision
Achieve bold goals others dismiss as impossible
Build resilience and reduce blame culture
Increase cross-team collaboration and alignment
Improve speed of decision-making
Strengthen trust across the organisation
Shape a culture where people lead themselves better
Build high-performance teamwork as standard
Ideal for:
Senior leadership meetings
Leadership development programmes
Kick-off events
All-hands team events
Culture & transformation initiatives
Sales kick-offs
Offsites and strategy retreats
Why hire Caspar as your leadership speaker?
As a leadership speaker, Caspar specialises in mindset, transformation, resilience, and high-performance teamwork for leaders at all levels.
Leadership Speaker FAQs
What makes Caspar Craven a distinctive leadership speaker?
Caspar combines three rare leadership domains: corporate leadership, entrepreneurial growth, and extreme high-pressure environments. This blend gives audiences practical insights they can act on immediately, delivered through relatable stories and bold ideas.
What topics does Caspar Craven specialise in?
Caspar speaks on leadership mindset, transformation, resilience, collaboration, decision-making, and the pursuit of bold, ambitious goals. His frameworks include The Big Bold Mindset, The Big Bold Circle, and principles from his Bloomsbury-published books.
Who does Caspar typically speak to?
He works primarily with leadership teams and also speaks at all-hands events and kick-offs for ambitious organisations navigating change, transformation, or stretching strategic goals.
What outcomes can we expect from Caspar’s keynote?
Leaders leave with clarity of direction, improved decision-making, stronger collaboration, and a shift in mindset that helps them lead with courage in uncertain and fast-changing environments.
How does Caspar tailor his leadership keynotes?
Every session begins with a discovery call to understand your challenges, vision and outcomes. Caspar then designs a keynote specifically aligned to your goals, your culture, and your leadership context.
What is The Big Bold Mindset?
The Big Bold Mindset is Caspar’s leadership framework built around 20 principles for thinking clearly, acting boldly, and leading with courage in times of uncertainty. It blends research, real-world experience and practical tools leaders can apply immediately.
Does Caspar speak at global events?
Yes. Caspar regularly speaks at global leadership conferences and senior leadership offsites for organisations including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, GSK, Boston Consulting Group, Standard Life and many more.
Does Caspar deliver both virtual and in-person keynotes?
Yes. Caspar speaks at in-person, hybrid and fully virtual events worldwide, ensuring the same level of engagement and impact across formats.
Does Caspar offer workshops as well as keynotes?
Yes. Alongside keynotes, Caspar delivers leadership workshops focused on mindset, collaboration, execution, resilience, and aligning teams around bold goals.
How do we book Caspar Craven as our leadership speaker?
Simply click Check Availability to begin the process. Caspar and his team will share options aligned to your goals and guide you through the booking, preparation and delivery stages.
“Tietoevry
We had our internal yearly talent development program at Tietoevry Payments, this is a very special program for us as we use it to help us grow our future leaders.
So when we do engage external speakers we always have high expectations and many alignments to deliver the best possible content in the most engaging and inspiring way.
And it must be applicable immediately in their professional and personal journeys ! Not an easy task, and that is why we would absolutely like to thank again and recommend to reach out to Caspar and his team!
You truly made a difference!
”
What It’s Like to Work With Caspar
Event organisers value Caspar for his preparation, adaptability, and partnership mentality before, during, and after the event.
He listens, adapts, and designs the talk around your exact outcomes.
The process is simple:
Discovery call — understand your context, challenges and outcomes
Talk design — tailored to your audience and objectives
Refinement — you receive a clear summary and proposed direction
Delivery — high-impact keynote, with follow-through
Ongoing support — reinforcement of messages, Q&A, attendee engagement
Every talk is built around your team, your culture and your goals.
Current Leadership Topics Caspar Tackles
Organisations bring Caspar in when they need their leaders to think more boldly, collaborate more effectively, and deliver ambitious results in uncertain and fast-changing environments. The most in-demand topics include:
How do we achieve Big Bold Goals and navigate change and uncertainty?
Most organisations aren’t short of ambition. They’re short of the mindset shifts and the courage to achieve those goals. Caspar helps leaders replace blame culture with ownership, create psychological safety, and build the habits and mindsets that allow teams to stay resilient under pressure without sacrificing wellbeing.
How do we stay human and think clearly in the age of AI?
AI is accelerating faster than most teams can adapt, but the real challenge isn’t the technology, it’s the human response. Caspar helps leaders build the clarity, curiosity and critical thinking needed to use AI intelligently without outsourcing judgement. He shows teams how to stay calm in the acceleration, make smarter decisions, and hold the deeper conversations that AI can’t. This topic helps leaders turn AI from a source of overwhelm into a multiplier of human performance, creativity and courage.
How do we break silos and get teams working together?
Cross-functional collaboration is the difference between firefighting and momentum. Caspar gives leaders practical tools to communicate across boundaries, improve trust, and build alignment so that decisions become faster, smarter and anchored on what the customer truly needs.
How do we engage our teams and focus them on bold goals?
Every ambitious organisation reaches a point where the goal feels too big, too complex or too far away. Caspar teaches leaders how to raise ambition, remove the ‘why nots’, and build the confidence and clarity required to deliver goals others dismiss as unrealistic.
How do we create clarity and execute effectively?
Clarity is a leadership superpower but most teams are drowning in noise. Caspar helps leaders simplify priorities, align people around what matters most, and create the conditions for consistent, high-quality execution.
How do we lead through transformation when everything is moving?
Transformation isn’t a project, it’s a continual state. Caspar equips leaders to respond to change with curiosity, courage and adaptability, helping organisations move from reacting to proactively shaping their future.
How do we help our people lead themselves better?
With burnout and overwhelm rising globally, self-leadership is no longer optional. Caspar gives teams practical, human-centred tools to improve energy, mindset, resilience, focus and decision-making, the foundations of any high-performing culture.
How do we build a culture where people think boldly and act decisively?
Bold thinking is the competitive advantage that most organisations under-leverage. Caspar shows leaders how to create a culture where people feel safe to challenge, experiment and stretch their potential — the environment where Big Bold Goals become achievable.
About Caspar Craven
Caspar Craven is a leadership speaker based in London who works with senior leadership teams and organisations around the world. He is a best-selling Bloomsbury-published author and the author of The Big Bold Mindset®, his latest work on how leaders think clearly, act boldly and navigate uncertainty. He regularly speaks at global leadership conferences for organisations including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, GSK, Boston Consulting Group and Standard Life.
His work focuses on helping leaders think more boldly, build high-performance teams and deliver ambitious results in times of change. Caspar blends real-world senior leadership experience with story-led teaching, behavioural science and practical tools leaders can apply immediately.
For event organisers searching for leadership speakers who combine human-centred storytelling with real-world experience at the highest levels of business and adventure, Caspar offers a practical, research-backed approach that creates lasting shifts in how people think, lead and collaborate.