Caspar Craven: Mindset Speaker
Choosing Your Mindset is the Most Powerful Decision Your Leaders Make
Caspar Craven is a mindset speaker known for delivering thought-provoking, story-driven keynotes that shift how leaders think, decide, and respond to challenges. His talks blend real-world leadership experience, research, and practical tools to help teams develop the clarity, courage, and resilience they need to thrive in times of uncertainty and rapid change.
He helps leaders at all levels choose their mindset consciously so they think more boldly, act more decisively, and lead themselves and others with greater confidence.
Caspar’s approach has been shaped by a life of unconventional experiences. Twice sailing around the world (once competitively, once with his family), 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-pressure adventure and high-performance business form the foundation of the mindset insights he brings to organisations today.
Mindset at a Glance
Caspar Craven brings together experience from three distinct worlds
Corporate Teamwork
As CFO of a business sold to Private Equity and former Associate Director at KPMG.Entrepreneurial Teamwork
Caspar built and sold a technology company and 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 the creator 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
Deliver ambitious results in times of change
Why World Class Teams Book Caspar as their Mindset Speaker
Caspar’s mindset keynotes create a shift in how people think, not just how they feel. Organisations trust him because he delivers more than motivation. He delivers a change in perspective.
Your audience will leave with more than inspiration. They will leave with clarity, tools and the mindset required to navigate uncertainty, make courageous decisions and stay focused on bold goals. Every keynote is designed around the specific challenges, ambitions and culture of the organisation.
Part of what makes Caspar’s approach different is that he has been in the seat himself. Leading teams through high-pressure decisions as a CFO, building businesses from scratch, and navigating real uncertainty in extreme environments. He understands what it takes to think clearly when the stakes are high.
His talks draw on:
The Big Bold Mindset®: 20 principles for thinking clearly, acting courageously and choosing the mindset that creates momentum
The latest behavioural science and research
High-impact, story-led teaching from boardrooms, start-ups and extreme environments
Practical, immediately applicable tools for developing resilience, clarity and self-leadership
And he delivers it all with humility, humour, 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 and ambitious strategic goals.
Making an Impact
Caspar Craven is regularly invited to speak at Leadership Summits, Leadership Offsites and Annual Kick Off Events as their Mindset Speaker. The consistent feedback from having spoken in over 38 countries for over 400 organisations going through change is that after Caspar’s session, your audience will:
Turn ideas into action, applying practical tools immediately rather than leaving with just inspiration
Stay clear and make better decisions under pressure, instead of defaulting to overwhelm or hesitation
Align as a team around what matters most, creating focus, energy, and forward momentum
World Class Market Leaders and Challenger Brands Trust Caspar
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You truly inspired our people to think and act differently!
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You have been brilliant today, the team felt so inspired, they referenced your session so many times during the breakouts ideas presentations! Thank you so much!
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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!
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An amazing, inspiring experience for 42 members of our senior leadership team that left them fired up to really deliver big goals.
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Caspar’s approach to developing and achieving big bold goals was refreshing, incredibly impactful and left our senior managers with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and motivation.
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Thank you so much for such an inspirational session. The feedback from the team was amazing. We loved the provocation and all felt super inspired. Thank you!!
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Worth its weight in gold. I have organised and attended many speaking engagements in the past, but none have come close to being as engaging.
“Truly inspiring! The audience was captivated throughout. Post conference feedback showed it was ranked the best session of the two days. The teams are still positively referencing it to this day!”
Michelle Curtis | Head of Internal Communications, Thales
Why Hire Caspar as Your Mindset Speaker?
As a mindset speaker, Caspar specialises in leadership, transformation, resilience, and high-performance teamwork for leaders at all levels.
Mindset Speaker FAQs
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Caspar combines three separate 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.
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Caspar speaks on 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yes. Caspar regularly speaks at global leadership conferences and senior level teamwork offsites for organisations including Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, ABB, GSK, Boston Consulting Group, Standard Life and many more.
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Yes. Caspar speaks at in-person, hybrid and fully virtual events worldwide, ensuring the same level of engagement and impact across formats.
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Yes. Alongside keynotes, Caspar delivers leadership workshops focused on mindset, collaboration, execution, resilience, and aligning teams around bold goals.
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Simply click the ‘Check Availability’ button above 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.
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 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 teams report unclear priorities and inconsistent collaboration.
Caspar’s keynotes and workshops give leaders the mindset, tools and behaviours needed to bridge these gaps immediately.
The Outcomes You Can Expect from Hiring Caspar as Your Teamwork Speaker
Hiring Caspar as your mindset speaker helps leaders move from firefighting and siloed thinking to clarity, ownership, and aligned execution.
Typical outcomes include:
Create Fast, Deep Engagement around Your Vision
Caspar helps organisations to create deep engagement around a vision by fostering a "Big Bold Mindset" that turns ambitious goals into aligned action.
Achieve Bold Goals that Others Dismiss as Impossible
Caspar helps teams focus on what matters most, simplify priorities, and maintain momentum on ambitious goals even when challenges compete for attention.
Build Resilience and Reduce Blame Culture
Resilient cultures are built on personal responsibility, psychological safety and aligned action. Caspar helps teams remove friction and respond to challenge together rather than individually.
Increase Cross-Team Collaboration and Alignment
People learn how to think beyond their functional boundaries, challenge ideas constructively, and collaborate with confidence.
Improve Speed of Decision-Making
When teams master simple mental frameworks for clarity and calm, they make faster, smarter decisions – especially in fast-moving or high-stakes situations.
Strengthen Trust Across the Organisation
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.
Shape a Culture Where People Lead Themselves Better
Caspar help organisations build high-performance cultures where people lead themselves better by fostering ownership, psychological safety, and through decentralised decision-making. Leaders learn to empower teams to align with big, bold goals, moving away from micromanagement towards a "be more human" philosophy.
Build High-Performance Teamwork as Standard
People learn how to think beyond their functional boundaries, challenge ideas constructively, and collaborate with confidence.
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
Caspar’s speaking services include:
Motivational Leadership Speaker
Inspirational Leadership & Teamwork Speaker
Kick-Off Speaker
Leadership Speaker
Teamwork Speaker
“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.”
Tarek Fadel | Sales Leader, Inuit
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 Mindset Topics that Caspar Tackles
Organisations bring Caspar in when they need their leaders and teams to think more clearly, stay calm in complexity, and respond to challenge with courage rather than reactivity.
The most in-demand teamwork topics include:
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Uncertainty is constant. Mindset is the most controllable lever. As a mindset speaker, Caspar helps leaders understand the link between thoughts, emotions and actions so they can respond to challenge with clarity rather than overwhelm. This session gives teams practical tools to stay grounded, focused and decisive when the pressure rises.
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AI is accelerating faster than most organisations can absorb. The real competitive advantage is not technical skill but human clarity. Caspar equips teams with the mindset needed to navigate acceleration. Thinking critically, maintaining judgement, and staying anchored when the pace feels relentless. This topic transforms AI from a source of anxiety into a catalyst for better thinking and bolder action.
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Resilience is not about pushing harder, it’s about thinking differently. Caspar gives leaders a practical set of tools to manage energy, reduce cognitive load, build sustainable habits and create the internal stability needed to perform in demanding environments.
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Most teams operate in reaction mode. Caspar shows leaders how to move from firefighting to intentional thinking, using clarity, reflection and self-leadership to break the cycle. This mindset shift helps teams execute more consistently, collaborate more effectively and make better long-term decisions.
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Distraction is the enemy of ambition. Caspar helps leaders create the mindset needed to prioritise what matters most, quiet the noise, and take courageous action toward goals others consider unrealistic. It’s about choosing the mindset that sustains momentum.
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Self-leadership is now a core organisational capability. Caspar equips leaders with practical strategies to improve self-awareness, emotional regulation, decision-making and personal clarity, the foundations of any high-performing team.
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Teams thrive when people feel safe to challenge assumptions, experiment and raise their ambition. Caspar shows leaders how to create a mindset culture where bold thinking becomes the default, driving innovation, collaboration and action.
About Caspar
Caspar Craven is a resilience 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.
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