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Caspar Berry          

Film Writer, Entrepreneur, Former Professional Poker Player

Caspar Berry has cultivated a diverse career, including roles as a film writer, television commercials director, entrepreneur, broadcaster, and former professional poker player. For over a decade, he has been a motivational speaker focusing on risk-taking and decision-making. His engagements have reached a global audience with over 500 organizations benefiting from his insights.

Berry employs the metaphor of poker not just to entertain, but to impart profound insights about risk and decision-making processes. He challenges common perceptions about risk in a world that often prizes safety, encouraging his audiences to embrace uncertainty and the potential benefits of calculated risks. His talks cover a variety of topics, including intuition, achieving competitive advantages, and the strategic benefits of embracing potential failures.

Berry’s presentation style is dynamic and engaging, designed to leave a lasting impact on his audiences, which have included major corporations like Google, IBM, Visa, BT, Siemens, and eBay. He has no requirement for his audience to understand poker, as he uses the game more for its strategic implications than as a guide to gambling. Each session is tailored to ensure that every attendee can derive personal value, applicable in both personal and professional contexts.

Adding to his credentials, Berry's early career involved acting in the BBC drama "Byker Grove," directing award-winning films and commercials, and studying economics at Cambridge University. His move to Las Vegas at 26 to pursue professional poker not only enriched his understanding of risk but also provided real-life experiences that he draws upon in his speeches. After his poker career, he returned to the UK, where he contributed to the poker boom of the 2000s through television and even served as a poker advisor on the James Bond movie "Casino Royale." Berry’s diverse experiences not only enrich his presentations but also enable him to connect with a wide range of audience members, fostering discussions that spur organizational and personal growth.

Speech Topics


Risk and Decision Making.

Risk and Decision Making is the first speech I wrote, it looks at what a decision actually is, how decision making happens and asks how well we make them, or whether we could make them better.

While the subject of decision making is unimaginably vast and profound, it is important that each speech has a kind of key message and the principal tenet of this one is that all decisions are essentially investment decisions and that all of us as decision makers are essentially investors every moment of every day.

Naturally most of our investments are not financial but take many different forms; money is just one of many limited resources that we are always allocating in a world of uncertainty, the most profound, of course, being our precious time.

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