Caspar Craven, Leading Authority on the Mindset to Achieve Big Bold Goals
Choose Your Mindset
Your mindset is the single most important thing in achieving your goals.
In a world of accelerating change and uncertainty, Caspar Craven helps leaders and teams develop the Big Bold Mindset®, enabling them to think bolder and act courageously to achieve Big Bold Goals
Caspar’s talks are built around The Big Bold Mindset®; principles for navigating a fast-changing world, brought to life through real stories, and applied directly to today’s leadership challenges. Your audience will leave inspired, with powerful mindset tools and ideas they can use immediately to achieve their Big Bold Goals.
The Big Bold Mindset® keynote takes people from:
Navigating uncertainty and complexity, to thinking bigger and tackling today’s challenges differently
Operating at relentless pace, to taking shared responsibility for culture, values, and teamwork
Pressure-filled environments, to daily actions and choices that hold firm when it matters most
Some leaders step into change with energy and clarity. Others shrink back. Some teams pull together and thrive. Others fracture.
The difference between those that achieve extraordinary results, and those that don’t?
It’s their Mindset.
World Class Organisations Trust Caspar to Inspire Them
The Unusual Experiences That Revealed Breakthrough Insights Into Mindset
I know what it takes to chase results in high-pressure environments. Like many people, I’ve spent years working on ambitious goals. I know what it takes to build success. I also know the pressure, overwhelm, self doubt, uncertainty, and exhaustion that comes with it.
The biggest breakthrough in my life didn’t come from a spreadsheet or a boardroom, but from a bold decision: To sail around the world with my wife and three young children. It wasn’t an escape. It was the ultimate test of mindset, resilience, leadership, and teamwork. Storms, breakdowns, and 32,000 miles at sea taught me something I’d never learned in the working world: Mindset is what makes the difference between success and failure.
The same is true in business. When the pressure is on, when resources are stretched, and emotions fray, it’s not the plan that gets you through. It’s the mindset you bring to it.
Today, when I’m working with leaders and their teams, my message is clear: it’s all about Mindset:
Your Mindset is the single biggest factor in achieving your Big Bold Goals.
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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.
The Framework Behind the Story: The Big Bold Mindset®
At the heart of my work is a clear, practical framework for navigating uncertainty, pressure and change.
The Big Bold Mindset® brings together five essential elements that leaders and teams must develop if they are to think differently, lead effectively, and perform when it matters most: Resilience, Thinking Big, Leadership, Teamwork, and Growth.
This framework underpins every keynote, workshop and conversation giving audiences not just inspiration, but structure, language and tools they can actually use.
What often starts as a Leadership Forum, All-Hands Meeting, Culture Day or Kick Off doesn’t end on the day.
After experiencing the Big Bold Mindset® Talk, teams and leaders don’t just leave with ideas, they begin using the ideas together.
““The Big Bold Mindset® has truly inspired me in my own leadership. We used it in our leadership meeting the following week. We applied the ‘Wearing Hats’ technique to envision our future organisation, and the ‘Why / Why Not’ workshop to explore how to accelerate our growth in the Nordics.”
— Kamilla Enggaard Have, Biopharmaceutical Leader & Non-Executive Board Member
Thinking Bigger
Key takeaway
When we think big and bold, we stretch what we believe is possible.
Why this matters
In a world of constant disruption, “last year plus 10%” thinking no longer works. Leaders at all levels need the courage to imagine a very different future even before they know how they’ll get there.
Proven under pressure
Sailing around the world, we learnt quickly that you can’t navigate a new world using an old set of charts. If you rely on yesterday’s thinking, you miss what’s coming next.
Seen in business today
Entire industries are being disrupted by outsiders. Spotify, Airbnb, Tesla. None came from within the sector they disrupted.
The lesson is simple: if you don’t rethink your own future, someone else will.
Leading Bigger
Key takeaway
How you lead yourself determines how others experience your leadership.
Why this matters
In pressured environments, leaders don’t fail because they lack capability. They struggle because their focus, attention, and emotional state get pulled in too many directions. If you don’t lead yourself well, it’s very hard to lead others well.
Proven under pressure
Racing around the world, I learnt that when you’re tired, under pressure, and stretched, your thinking is easily hijacked. If you don’t take control of what influences you and where your attention goes, your decision-making suffers fast.
Seen in business today
In the book, I point to leaders like Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Mary Barra. None of them leave their thinking to chance. They are deliberate about who and what they allow to influence them and how they curate their time. Leading bigger starts there.
Bigger Together
Key takeaway
Culture is shaped one conversation at a time and it’s everyone’s responsibility.
Why this matters
Teams don’t struggle because people aren’t capable. They struggle because expectations are unclear, trust is low, and difficult conversations don’t happen. Culture isn’t created by intent. It’s created by how people talk, listen, and behave every day.
Proven under pressure
When we set out to sail around the world as a family, we realised very quickly that we needed clear, shared values. Not a poster on a wall, but agreed ways of behaving when things were hard. Those values guided how we made decisions, handled conflict, and supported each other when the pressure was on.
Seen in business today
Research from Google (Project Aristotle) showed that the highest-performing teams weren’t the smartest — they were the ones where people felt safe to speak up and be honest. And at ABB, leaders recognised that culture isn’t driven top-down; it’s shaped locally, through everyday conversations and shared responsibility.
When teams own the culture together, performance follows.
Bigger By The Day
Key takeaway
Our speed of learning is our single biggest competitive advantage.
Why this matters
Big goals don’t fail because people lack ambition. They fail because teams get stuck. Waiting for perfect, over-thinking decisions, or losing momentum. The leaders who make progress are the ones who learn fast and keep moving.
Proven under pressure
When you’re operating in challenging environments, you don’t get the luxury of long planning cycles. In the book, I talk about treating progress as a series of experiments. Acting, learning, adjusting, and going again. The mindset is simple: being wrong might sting, but being slow is far more dangerous.
Seen in business today
At Microsoft, the shift from “we know” to “we learn” unlocked curiosity, adaptability, and long-term performance. And at Amazon, the idea of Day One keeps teams focused on learning, experimenting, and avoiding complacency, no matter how big the organisation becomes.
Bigger Resilience
Key takeaway
Resilience is too important to be left to chance. Resilience is like a muscle that can be deliberately, specifically, and consciously developed.
Why this matters
Pressure, setbacks, and uncertainty aren’t occasional anymore. They are constant. The question for leaders and teams isn’t whether challenges will come, but whether they’ve built the capacity to deal with them when they do.
Proven under pressure
Mid-ocean, more than 500 miles from land, there was no quick rescue and no easy way out. In those moments, resilience isn’t about toughness or bravado. It comes from preparation understanding your emotions, and building the habits and mindset to keep going when things are hard.
Seen in business today
Organisations that leave resilience to chance struggle when pressure hits. Others build it deliberately. At Microsoft, leaders focused on creating psychological safety, learning from failure, and addressing problems early making the organisation stronger and more adaptable over time.
Resilient cultures don’t hope people will cope; they prepare them to.
Why Book Caspar for Your Event?
Trusted to deliver in person and online
You need a Leadership Speaker with a proven track record for delivering, not just speeches that inspire your audience, but that also educate, entertain and leave them with powerful actionable takeaways.Flexible and easy to work with:
Watch the showreel video above to see some of the messages, energy and takeaways your audience will experience. Caspar is highly attentive to preparation and will collaborate with you to make sure your event is a success both before, during, and after the event. Having been involved in many events in corporate working life, Caspar appreciates just how much work goes into making a successful event.Connects with your event
Caspar will be there from the start of your event, listening to the speeches and making links back to them in the keynote. He will stay as long as possible after the presentation, answering questions, listening to your delegate’s stories, and reinforcing your key messages.
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Where the Magic Happens
In 2009, Caspar and Nichola planned to sail around the world with their young children. Most people thought they were crazy. This is a story of a fabulous sailing adventure and so much more: an inspirational tale for all those wishing they could do the same; a practical guide to show you just how you can make it happen; a motivational story of leadership and teamwork within a family; and a funny, heart-warming tale of slightly unconventional family life.
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Be More Human
What would it take to deliver extraordinary results and develop engaged high-performance teams as well as have a thriving family life at the same time? Just one overarching message: be more human. Drawing on his 30-plus years of experience in building and leading teams to set, tackle and achieve Big Bold Goals, 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 be a leader today? To be a leader in times of exponential change where challenges come from every direction? Today needs a different type of leader. A leader with a Big Bold Mindset. Caspar is on a mission to lead the movement on rethinking what leadership needs today. In The Big Bold Mindset, Caspar explains why we need to think differently and presents a series of principles to guide ambitious leaders.
