My obsession is the mindset required to deliver transformation and achieve Big Bold Goals.
I’ve spent my entire life focused on change. When I look back, every chapter - both business and personal has been about change. It’s about transformation and what it really takes to achieve that.
This has never been more relevant than today. Show me a sector or organisation that isn’t grappling with the challenge of facing massive disruptive change, and I’ll show you a team about to fail.
The Reality Today
The pressure to drive transformation is everywhere. Clarity on how to lead through change is in shorter supply.
There’s a hard truth here: The skills required to deliver transformation and change are fundamentally different from those needed for 5–20% growth which so many teams are used to.
Right now, there’s a very real skills gap which people are trying to close. Which happens to be the one area of life that I’ve spent my entire life working on.
“We were blown away by his charismatic presentation and experience 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
My Experience
I have spent my career in transformation and environments which are volatile and fast changing. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever had a role which is what I’d call a steady state business as usual role!
My career experience includes five years at KPMG Corporate Finance in the late 1990’s/ early 2000’s tech boom, and later as CFO of a fast growth tech company which we sold to Private Equity. I was also Co-Founder and CEO of Tech Company which we scaled and successfully exited. I currently also work with some early-stage ventures in the Climate Change and Mental Health Sector on missions that truly matter.
I have sailed twice around the world - the first time on the World’s Toughest Yacht Race, and the second time with my family team - my wife and three children under the age of ten.
High pressure. High stakes. No room to hide.
“Exactly on point for our top global leaders! The learnings will resonate long past our meeting. ”
Edgar Zwanink | Global Human Resources Director, INEOS Styrolution
What I’ve Learned
There’s one crucial insight I see play out time and again. Both my lived experience and my research shows that embracing business transformation without some level of personal transformation significantly reduces the likelihood of success of your transformation. Shifts, or at the very least, a curiousity and open-mindedness are required in both.
I understand what is needed because I’ve made every mistake in the book on the way to achieving a number of Big Bold Goals. What I share isn’t just textbook or academic learning - it’s rooted in hard-won lived experience at the sharp end.
Success leaves clues and it’s the patterns and observations I’ve found together with my own lived experiences that I share with audiences.
The Big Bold Mindset®
That’s exactly why I created The Big Bold Mindset®.
It covers the leadership, teamwork, and resilience needed for transformation.
This work sits at the intersection of business and personal.
What This Means for You
My mission is simple:
To create the mindset shifts your leaders and teams need to navigate uncertainty, lead transformation, and deliver Big Bold Goals.
In the Keynote Talks that I deliver, I share with audiences the core twenty principles to not just set, but to tackle and achieve Big Bold Goals.
The result is that audiences leave inspired, and with powerful practical tools needed to create lasting transformation.
“Our leadership said it was ‘worth its weight in gold’. Gripped the attention of Burberry colleagues all over the globe. ”
Hannah Maxted | Director of Communications, Burberry
Where it Began…
I launched my first business aged 14 catching crabs and lobsters. By 16 I was exporting half a ton of crabs a week to Spain.
Realising that catching crabs wasn’t going to enable me to make the impact I desired, I studied Economics at Southampton University.
For the next eight years, I worked in the corporate world; first as a Chartered Accountant and then working my way up to Associate Director at KPMG Corporate Finance.
Challenges at Sea and at Work
In 2000, I 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, I returned to KPMG to run a Technology and Telecoms team.
In 2001, I resumed my working life as an entrepreneur and raised money for, built, grew and sold businesses primarily in the technology sector.
In that time, I made mistakes, I fell over and got up again and carried on. I’ve had some great successes and some painful and public failures.
Sailing the World with the Family Team
In 2009, my wife and I co-created a plan to sail around the world with our young children and we spent the next five years planning how to make things happen.
Eventually, in 2016, we successfully completed our circumnavigation, having had to make some very tough decisions and facing losing everything on our seven-year long voyage from idea to completion.
Since then, my focus has been studying the patterns and behaviours that distinguish people who take on and succeed with transformation and change challenges that most people dismiss as being impossible.
My research and the insights it has generated are what has fuelled my last four books, The Big Bold Mindset®: Re-thinking the Rules of Leadership, Be More Human: Re-Thinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork, Where The Magic Happens, and Big Bold Goals.
Best Selling Author: Buy the Books To Keep Momentum
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Where the Magic Happens
In 2009, Caspar and Nichola planned to sail around the world with their young children despite not having the money, the skills needed or a boat. This is a story of turning the impossible into the possible. It’s a practical guide to show you just how you can make it happen; a motivational story of leadership and teamwork within a family.
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Be More Human
What does it take to deliver extraordinary results and develop engaged high-performance teams? Just one overarching message: be more human. Drawing on his 30-plus years of experience in building and leading teams Caspar Craven has rewritten the rule book on how to build thriving high-performance teams.
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The Big Bold Mindset
What does it take to lead in times of change where challenges come from every direction? Caspar is on a mission to lead the movement on rethinking the mindset needed for business today. Caspar explains why we need to think differently and presents a series of principles to guide ambitious leaders.
“Thank you so much for such an inspirational session. You challenged us to think Big and Bold, to take extreme ownership as we embark to 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
Next Step
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If you are looking to unlock the untapped potential of your people, accelerate transformation in your organisation or tackle your Big Bold Goals, then have Caspar Craven speak at your next event.
