My Story
I’m obsessed with the Mindset, Leadership, Teamwork, and Resilience needed to be able to achieve Big Bold Goals.
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. I have literally lived what I talk about.
My obsession has subsequently taken me on a journey to research, study, interview, and learn from the most successful and audacious leaders on the planet, and the science and psychology that explains audacious leadership.
Success leaves clues and it’s the patterns and observations I’ve found together with my own lived experiences that I share with audiences.
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.
My work experiences have covered businesses of all sizes and, having started out as an entrepreneur at 14, I’ve built and led teams in global corporations, start-up businesses, struggling businesses and high-growth businesses. This includes 10+ years in Professional Services including five years at KPMG Corporate Finance and several stints as a CFO. Additionally, I have built multiple successful ventures from scratch, one of which I sold for a seven-figure sum.
My Mission is to create the mindset shifts needed for your leaders and teams so that you can achieve your Big Bold Goals.
For Event Bookers
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 come away with the inspirational ideas, and powerful practical tools needed to achieve Big Bold Goals.
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Watch Caspar’s most recent interview about his latest book, The Big Bold Mindset®, and why this is important for business audiences to understand the Mindset shifts needed to achieve Big Bold Goals in today's fast-moving and uncertain world.
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“Thank you so much for such an inspirational session. You challenged us to think Big and Bold, to take extreme ownership as we embark in 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!!
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My Career Started...
I launched my first business that involved catching crabs and lobsters at the age of 14 and by the age of 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 went to University and for the next 8 years, I worked in the corporate world - first as a Chartered Accountant and then as an Investment Banker at KPMG.
Watch Captain on the Worlds Toughest Yacht Race
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 e-commerce 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 great failures.
In 2009, my wife and I hatched a plan to sail around the world with our young children and we spent the next 5 years planning how to make things happen. Eventually, in 2016, we successfully completed our circumnavigation, having had to make heart-wrenching decisions and having experienced amazing highs and agonising lows on our 7-year long voyage from idea to completion.
In the years since returning from my last expedition, I have focused on studying the patterns and traits that distinguish people who take on and succeed with challenges that most people dismiss as being impossible. This research and the insights it has generated are what has fuelled my last three books, Be More Human - Re-Thinking the Rules of High-Performance Teamwork, Big Bold Goals, and The Big Bold Mindset® - Re-thinking the Rules of Leadership.
I also work with and back a small number of ventures which revolve around achieving Big Bold Goals, that truly matter.
My obsession is with the Mindset needed to achieve Big Bold Goals, and the leadership, teamwork, and resilience that comes from this mindset. My goal is to bring inspirational thought-provoking stories and ideas to your audience together with tools and actionable strategies your teams can use immediately.
Inspirational Leadership Speaker on achieving ambitious goals through effective leadership and high-performance teamwork
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