As goals get bigger and the pressure is on, the mindset of your leaders and teams is what makes the difference between success and failure.
Caspar Craven is the creator of the Big Bold Mindset® - a proven framework that helps leaders and teams think bigger, collaborate better, and move forward to achieve your Big Bold Goals.
Caspar’s keynotes invite audiences to:
Think bigger and differently, stretching what they believe is possible in the pursuit of Big Bold Goals
Recognise that culture is shaped one conversation at a time, and that everyone has a role to play in creating alignment, trust, and momentum
Adopt a learner’s mindset, building progress one day at a time and recognising that our speed of learning can be our greatest competitive advantage
Some leaders step into change with energy and clarity.
Others shrink back. Some teams pull together and thrive. Others fracture.
What separates them is how they think and act when the pressure is on.
My talks are built around the Big Bold Mindset® - a powerful set of principles for navigating a fast-changing world and brought to life through real stories when the stakes were high and applied directly to today’s leadership challenges.
Your audience will leave inspired and equipped with practical tools to use immediately to achieve their Big Bold Goals.
World-Class organisations trust me 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 (more on my bio page). 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.
“Gripped the attention of Burberry colleagues all over the globe. Our leadership said it was “worth its weight in gold””
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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.
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 notes, they begin using the tools and 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.”
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Why Big Bold Goals and Why Now?
The pace of change will never be this slow again. McKinsey said that in 2023, and the pace of change continues to accelerate at a dizzying pace.
The rules of the game have changed and I think that far too many organisations are still trying to navigate a new world using an outdated set of charts.
I think those charts start with thinking Bigger and Bolder than ever before.
There is magic that happens when we set Big Bold Goals.
Magic because Big Bold Goals stretch what we believe is possible.
When we set Big Bold Goals, we also build a plan grounded in reality to achieve it. Goals like ‘5x or 10x’ not only engage and focus a team, they force us to get creative and innovate in ways we may not have otherwise considered.
My obsession is with the mindset needed to achieve Big Bold Goals, which in turn impacts the leadership and teamwork we need to navigate the future. This means understanding how to go far together as a team.
I understand, firsthand, the importance of putting people first in order to achieve the things most people dismiss as being impossible. I understand this because I’ve made every mistake in the book on the way to achieving a number of big bold goals. I speak from lived experience.
I’m invited to be a regular speaker at corporate events and conferences around the world both in person and virtually. I leave audiences feeling energised, and with powerful takeaways that they can use immediately
My mindset obsession has taken me on a journey to research, study, interview, and learn from the most successful and audacious leaders on the planet, and the latest science and psychology that explains audacious leadership. These are ideas I research continuously and share via the Big Bold Ideas Lab.
Success leaves clues and it's the patterns and observations I’ve found together with my own lived experiences that I will bring to your audience.
What are the 5 elements of the Big Bold Mindset Framework?
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 the world, we learnt 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 message 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 and attention get pulled in too many directions. If you don’t lead yourself well, it’s hard to lead others well.
Proven under pressure: Sailing the world, I learnt that when you’re tired and under pressure, 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 is everyone’s responsibility.
Why it 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 is created by how teams talk, listen, and act every day.
Proven under pressure: When we set out to sail the world as a family, we realised that we needed to shape our teamwork. Not just a values poster on a wall, but agreed ways of working together. Our values shaped how we worked as a team, especially when the pressure was on.
Seen in business today: Research from Google shows that the highest-performing teams are the ones who felt safe to speak up. Put People First and the Results Follow.
Bigger By The Day
Key takeaway: Our speed of learning is our single biggest competitive advantage.
Why it 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 iterate fast.
Proven under pressure: When you’re operating in challenging environments, you don’t get the luxury of long planning cycles. Progress is a series of experiments. Trying, failing, learning on repeat.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. Every day is a learning day.
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 it matters: Pressure, setbacks and uncertainty are a constant. The real question for leaders and teams is whether they’ve built the capacity to deal with them.
Proven under pressure: Mid-ocean and 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 mindset to keep going when things are hard.
Seen in business today: Organisations that leave resilience to chance struggle when pressure hits. Resilient cultures don’t hope people will cope; they prepare them to.
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