Robert Craven
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One of the UK’s leading speakers on business and digital agency growth
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Author of over ten books including the best-selling, Grow Your Digital Agency
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Founded The Directors’ Centre and GYDA, business consultancy
Robert Craven is an internationally-renowned keynote speaker and authority on growing digital agencies. Speaking in front of global audiences, he reaches 4,000 agencies a year, from London to Dublin, from Singapore to New York.
He is the go-to expert for Google, having spent over seven years collaborating to develop programmes and strategies to grow Google Partner and Google Premier Partner businesses.
Known for his no-nonsense approach to business growth, Robert personally works with a select group of 150 agency owners each year. He is author of over ten books including best seller, Grow Your Digital Agency. His strategy and marketing consultancies, The Directors’ Centre and the GYDA Initiative, help agency leaders to run the business they want to lead so they can lead the life they want to live.
Robert Craven spent five years running training and consultancy programmes for entrepreneurial businesses at Warwick Business School.
Robert is not full of theoretical rhetoric; he offers practical solutions - tangible business results. Robert's work on marketing and strategy has been widely published and acted upon by thousands of growing businesses.
His track record at helping businesses is very impressive. Add to this his broad experience at board level and you will understand how and why he uniquely adds value to all the businesses that he works with.
Alongside his numerous speaking engagements, Robert personally works with a select list of personal clients, acting as mentor to the managing director or the board. Typically these are fast-growth businesses, most of whom have won awards for their exceptional business performance. Recent clients include AirBus, Barclays, LandRover Jaguar, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Warwick Business School, E.ON, Nando's, Serco, Tenon, Post Office Counters, Dept for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS), Virgin...
As a speaker, Robert shows you and your team what you need to do to grow and develop your business. His message works in two directions: he shows growing businesses how to be more businesslike; he shows multinationals how to be more nimble.
Robert delivers his message in a straight, honest and frank way - a way that you and your team will understand.
He helps companies as they face the challenges of growth, showing how to develop and implement strategies that focus on customers and profitability.
His books have been described as 'truly inspirational' by The Independent.
Sample Speech Topics include:
David And Goliath Work Together! - What small and big business learn from each other
10 Things To Do In The Next Ten Days… (To Increase Sales, Profit, Cash And Customers)
Bright Marketing – Why Should People Bother To Buy From You?
More Profit – How To Significantly Increase Sales And Profit
How To Attract And Retain Brilliant Clients
Robert Craven's Publications
Grow Your Service Firm
Beating the Credit Crunch
Bright Marketing
Kick-Start Your Business
Customer is King
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Robert brought his unique agency experience and sector expertise to a complex series of inter-related issues we had been wrestling with. His deceptively simple approach to solving thorny issues and creating clarity is mixed with some straightforward honest talking.
It’s fair to say that joining Robert Craven’s agency growth program transformed the business. Robert provided clear and actionable prescriptions that we were able to implement quickly to dramatic effect. The business impact in the last 12 months has been staggering.
Robert has given me and my agency an energetic boost and the tools to transfer the energy into a more structured and a more profitable agency. In some areas we were operating in the dark, the coaching sessions created light in those dark areas: resulting in clear view in the areas where we were blind before.
Robert is practical and he is the kind of person you want to surround yourself with. He’s honest and always ready to create value for his coachees. He’s not a smooth talking trainer with a lot of sales pep, and that really adds to his credibility.
The way that I have learned these lessons was perfect for me. I was very arrogant in how the business was run in the past but realising, through rational argument and processes, that I wasn’t the centre of the business has humbled me. That was the point where I was more able to work much more ON the business than IN the business with clear focus, which has resulted in incredible changes for the better. Both personally and professionally.
Robert Craven says that 'your whole business hinges on what your customer gets from you'. I wholeheartedly agree.
I now have the tools to succeed, whatever challenges the future holds for me. Without any doubt, the program with Robert, it’s been my best investment of time in the last three years.
His animated action-packed style demands participation. Robert does not give his audience the option of sitting back and merely reflecting.
Clients often ask about purchasing books for giveaways and delegate packs. Below you’ll find a selection of products by Robert Craven. Click the images to view on Amazon's website. For bulk orders, please speak with your Booking Agent.
How to book Robert Craven for your event
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