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This week I've gone back to the archives again because there are some jewels in there. Here is one of the early episodes, my guest was Caspar Craven, who is an entrepreneur and adventurer. Caspar has had oodles of experience, building teams and organisations, creating high growth strategies for business. He's also an award-winning yachter. He combined his business skills (leadership and teambuilding) and yachting skills when he took his family on his toughest challenge by far making them into a team to sail around the world, he, his wife and three children, then aged 9, 7, and 2. There were so many amazing lessons for business, for teams, for families, for relationships, about leadership, growth, work/life balance and working out what your true colours are. Caspar tells us about his first business at the age of 14 selling crabs by the sea, his amazing adventure sailing around the world with his family. What he discovered about home schooling his children and sharing the lessons he learnt on his adventure that apply to the business world. All this and more… NB – no books were thrown into the sea so please don't write in to complain. Bio From entrepreneur, to corporate team management, to yachtsman, Caspar Craven has over 30 years' experience in building teams to make things happen. After University, he spent 8 years in the corporate world – first as a Chartered Accountant and then as an Investment Banker at KPMG. In 2000, Caspar left the corporate world for a brand new team and he signed up for the BT Global Challenge (called the World's Toughest Yacht Race). He joined "Yacht Quadstone" as the youngest crew member onboard. After winning trophies around the world and building a team as Watch Captain, he returned to KPMG to run a Technology and Telecoms team. In 2001 he returned to entrepreneurial life as an e-commerce entrepreneur. His toughest team challenge by far was in 2009 when he built his family team to sail around the world: with his wife and three children aged 9, 7 and 2. Throughout his career as both family man and entrepreneur, he's built multiple successful businesses from scratch and sold one for a 7 figure sum…whilst sailing the Pacific Ocean. In his Keynotes and Workshops Caspar takes the audience through the key steps he's developed to create and build winning, high-performance teams in business, sport and family environments. He weaves in stories from his experiences leading a team on the world's toughest yacht race, building a successful business, and building teams within global corporates. Caspar Craven delivers a truly memorable message with energy, with humility and humour so that you come away inspired with fresh ideas and energy to have the biggest impact on those that you work and spend time with. Each session is tailored to meet the exact needs of your organisation. Recorded on: 25th January 2018 Links: More about Caspar Craven More about Maria Franzoni Ltd Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Libsyn Itunes Soundcloud Stitcher Spotify