Teamwork Speaker - Caspar Craven
Building World-Class Teams in a World That Won’t Stand Still
Caspar Craven is a teamwork speaker known for delivering thought-provoking, story-driven keynotes that shift how teams think, communicate, collaborate, and perform together. His talks blend real-world experience, research, and practical tools that help teams build trust, strengthen alignment, and work together with greater clarity and resilience in times of uncertainty and rapid change.
He helps teams at all levels collaborate more effectively, communicate more openly, and perform with greater cohesion under pressure.
Caspar’s approach has been shaped by a life of unconventional team experiences: Twice sailing around the world (once competitively, once with his wife and their three children under ten), serving as CFO of a business sold to Private Equity, working as an Associate 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 teamwork insights he brings to organisations today.
Teamwork at a Glance
Caspar Craven brings together teamwork experience from three distinct worlds, starting with the one that shaped his philosophy more than any other.
• Extreme teamwork: Twice sailing around the world - once competitively, once with his wife and their three children under ten, Caspar learned how teams perform when pressure rises, conditions change fast, and success depends entirely on trust, communication, and shared responsibility.
• Corporate teamwork: As CFO of a business sold to Private Equity and former Associate Director at KPMG, he led teams through complex strategy, shifting priorities and high-stakes decision-making across multiple functions.
• Entrepreneurial teamwork: Caspar built and sold a technology company and worked closely with scale-ups where cross-functional collaboration, rapid learning loops and aligned communication are essential to survival and growth.
This unusual combination shapes the practical, human-centred teamwork approach he brings to organisations today.
Caspar is a bestselling Bloomsbury-published author and the author of The Big Bold Mindset®. He speaks regularly at global leadership and teamwork events for organisations including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, and GSK.
Organisations bring Caspar in when they need their teams to collaborate better, communicate more openly, and deliver ambitious results together — especially when the environment is fast-moving or uncertain.
Why World-Class Teams Book Caspar as Their Teamwork Speaker
Caspar’s teamwork keynotes create a shift in how people collaborate, not just how they feel. Organisations trust him because he delivers more than motivation. He delivers real change in how teams think, communicate and work together.
Teams don’t just leave inspired. They leave with clarity, tools, and shared behaviours that improve trust, communication and collective ownership. Every keynote is tailored to the specific dynamics, challenges and goals of the organisation.
His talks draw on:
The Big Bold Mindset — 20 principles for thinking clearly, acting courageously and creating high-trust, high-performing teams
The latest teamwork and behavioural science
High-impact, story-driven teaching from extreme environments, boardrooms and entrepreneurial growth
Practical tools that teams can apply immediately to improve communication, accountability and collaboration
And he delivers it all with humour, humility and a relatable style that stays with audiences long after the event.
Caspar is also a sought-after leadership speaker, working with senior teams navigating change, growth and ambitious strategic goals.
““Awesome keynote, discussing the power of values with tips and tricks that can be applied in both our ‘work teams’ and ‘home teams’, helping to think like a challenger””
The Science Behind Caspar’s Approach
Caspar’s work focuses on strengthening the human capabilities that define high-performance teamwork: trust, psychological safety, communication, shared clarity, and coordinated action under pressure. The latest research reinforces why teamwork and not just individual performance is the critical competitive advantage.
MIT Sloan: Teams with high levels of trust are 42 times more likely to be highly resilient responding faster and more effectively when conditions change.
Google’s Project Aristotle: Psychological safety is the single strongest predictor of high-performing teams. When people feel safe to speak up, challenge, and contribute ideas, performance rises across every metric.
Harvard Business Review: Organisations that invest in team alignment and communication outperform peers by up to 25%, yet more than 70% of teams report unclear priorities and inconsistent collaboration.
Deloitte: 87% of organisations cite cross-functional collaboration as their biggest challenge; the exact barrier that slows projects, erodes morale, and increases friction.
Caspar’s teamwork keynotes and workshops give leaders and teams the practical tools, behaviours and mindset needed to apply these insights immediately by building teams that communicate better, trust faster, and perform at a higher level under pressure.
The Outcomes You Can Expect from Hiring Caspar as Your Teamwork Speaker
Hiring Caspar as your teamwork speaker helps teams move from siloed thinking, inconsistent communication and friction to coordination, trust and high-performance collaboration. Typical outcomes include:
Create fast, seamless cross-team collaboration
Teams learn how to break down silos, communicate clearly, and align around shared priorities accelerating execution and reducing duplication of effort.
Build trust quickly across functions and locations
Caspar shows teams how to increase psychological safety, strengthen relationships, and create the conditions where people feel confident speaking up and contributing their best thinking.
Improve communication under pressure
Teams develop practical strategies for reducing noise, giving clearer updates, and making faster, better decisions even when stakes are high and timelines are tight.
Align around bold goals (and stay aligned)
Caspar helps teams focus on what matters most, simplify priorities, and maintain momentum on ambitious goals even when challenges compete for attention.
Replace blame culture with shared ownership
Teams learn how to move from finger-pointing to responsibility, reinforcing a culture where people take ownership and solve problems together.
Strengthen resilience as a team, not just as individuals
Caspar gives teams tools to manage energy collectively, support each other through pressure, and build sustainable high-performance habits.
Create a culture of bold, proactive teamwork
People learn how to think beyond their functional boundaries, challenge ideas constructively, and collaborate with confidence.
Teamwork Speaker FAQs
What makes Caspar Craven a distinctive teamwork speaker?
Caspar combines three different perspectives which are corporate leadership, entrepreneurial growth and extreme environment teamwork to show teams how to communicate better, collaborate under pressure and deliver ambitious results together. His talks blend story-driven insight, research and practical tools that people can use immediately.
What topics does Caspar Craven specialise in?
Caspar speaks on high-performance teamwork, collaboration, communication, clarity, resilience, psychological safety and delivering Big Bold Goals together. His frameworks draw on The Big Bold Mindset and evidence-based human performance research.
Who does Caspar typically speak to?
Caspar works with senior leadership teams, cross-functional groups, project teams and whole organisations navigating transformation, complexity or ambitious strategic goals where teamwork and alignment are critical.
What outcomes can we expect from Caspar’s teamwork keynote?
Teams leave with practical tools to collaborate more effectively, communicate with clarity, build trust, reduce friction and align around shared goals. The shift is both behavioural and cultural where people think and act more cohesively.
How does Caspar tailor his teamwork keynotes?
Every engagement begins with a discovery call to understand your goals, challenges and team dynamics. Caspar then designs a session aligned to your culture and context, integrating your messaging and challenges with his stories, insights and practical tools.
What is The Big Bold Mindset?
The Big Bold Mindset® is Caspar’s framework for thinking clearly, acting courageously and building the alignment required for high-performance teamwork. It blends research with real-world experience from boardrooms, start-ups and extreme environments.
Does Caspar speak at global events?
Yes. Caspar regularly speaks at global leadership conferences, senior team offsites and organisation-wide events for brands including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, GSK, Boston Consulting Group and many more.
Does Caspar deliver both virtual and in-person keynotes?
Yes. Caspar delivers high-impact teamwork keynotes across in-person, virtual and hybrid formats, ensuring strong engagement and interaction in every setting.
Does Caspar offer workshops as well as keynotes?
Yes. Caspar delivers The Big Bold Goals: The Leadership Experience. This is a half-day or full-day immersive workshop designed to deepen collaboration, clarity and courageous action. Each session is tailored to your exact outcomes and gives teams practical tools they can use immediately.
How do we book Caspar Craven as our teamwork speaker?
Click Check Availability to begin the process. Caspar and his team will share tailored options and guide you through the booking, preparation and delivery steps.
What It’s Like to Work With Caspar
Event organisers value Caspar for his preparation, adaptability and partnership mindset before, during and after the event.
He listens deeply, adapts quickly and designs every session around your exact outcomes ensuring the teamwork shifts you want to create are woven throughout the entire experience.
The process is simple:
Discovery call: understand your context, your team dynamics and the outcomes you need
Session design: tailored to your audience, culture and real-world challenges
Refinement: you receive a clear summary and proposed direction
Delivery: a high-impact keynote that strengthens collaboration, communication and alignment
Ongoing support: reinforcement of messages, Q&A and attendee engagement
Every session is built around your people, your culture and your goals
Current Teamwork Topics Caspar Tackles
Organisations bring Caspar in when they need their teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate with clarity, and deliver ambitious results together especially when the pace is fast and the pressure is high.
The most in-demand teamwork topics include:
How do we break silos and build true cross-functional collaboration?
Most organisations don’t struggle for talent. They struggle to get talented people working effectively together.
Caspar gives teams practical tools to build trust, improve communication across boundaries, and align around shared goals so that decisions become faster, smarter and anchored on what matters most.
How do we create psychological safety so people speak up, challenge well and contribute their best thinking?
Teams perform at their highest when people feel safe to express concerns, ideas and risks.
Caspar shows leaders and teams how to create environments where people challenge constructively, share openly and raise the level of thinking across the room.
How do we collaborate effectively when everything is changing?
Change breaks communication before it breaks performance.
Caspar equips teams with the mindset and behaviours needed to stay aligned, communicate clearly and keep momentum even when priorities shift and uncertainty rises.
How do we improve teamwork when people are overwhelmed or burnt out?
Collaboration collapses when energy collapses.
Caspar teaches teams how to create sustainable habits, reduce friction, and work together in ways that protect wellbeing while increasing performance.
How do we transform conflict into productive problem-solving?
Conflict isn’t the problem. Unresolved conflict is.
Caspar shows teams how to navigate tension, understand different perspectives and move from defensive reactions to shared solutions.
How do we build a high-trust, high-accountability culture?
High-performing teams combine psychological safety with ownership.
Caspar helps teams replace blame culture with responsibility, strengthen trust, and build the habits that create consistent, high-quality collaboration.
About Caspar Craven
Caspar Craven is a teamwork speaker based in London and a bestselling Bloomsbury-published author whose work focuses on helping leaders build trust, collaboration and aligned execution in fast-changing environments.
He is the author of The Big Bold Mindset® and a regular keynote speaker at global conferences for organisations including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, GSK and Boston Consulting Group. His frameworks blend research, real-world leadership experience and story-driven insight.
Caspar’s approach draws on a rare breadth of experience: twice sailing around the world (once competitively, once with his family), building and selling a technology company, serving as CFO of a business sold to Private Equity, and leading teams through complex, high-pressure decisions.
For organisations searching for teamwork speakers who combine real-world leadership experience with human-centred storytelling, Caspar offers a practical, research-backed approach that strengthens collaboration, trust and collective performance.
“I read Caspar’s book ‘Be more human’ and it resonated in such a way that I booked Caspar to speak at our senior leadership offsite, I am delighted to say that he was inspirational.
His stories and approach were relevant, timely and above all ‘human’. He captivated an audience of c. 80 leaders and provided many of them with lightbulb moments of how to adapt and develop to reach their big bold goals!
We also purchased them all a copy of his book - giving them a lasting gift to provide continued inspiration.
We will definitely work with Caspar again and I would highly recommend his book and keynote for any team, business or event!
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”Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!” - that exclamation from Jane Eyre comes to mind a couple of days after having listened to the powerful messages Caspar conveys to his audience on stage. A gentleman - with insights and convictions gained from experience in such diverse environments as business, family life and boldly sailing around the globe.
”Bold” needs to be redefined looking at Caspar: it is not the loud, the barkers who are or can be bold, but those more silent, even hesitant, yet imbued with determination, tenacity and proper preparation that will be able to big bold things in their lives.
What an inspiration to listen to Caspar, whose messages long surpass the hour after the event. Caspar´s messages are sustainable, long-lasting and thorough, and can be influential in both your private and business lives in equal measure.
Be bold - be gentle - be systematic - be thoughtful and come from thinking into doing. Listen to Caspar Craven.”