The entrepreneurship guru – The Financial Times

The closest thing that growing businesses have to a modern day John Harvey Jones – The Cranfield School of Management.

As managing director of the Directors' Centre, the award-winning management consultancy company, Robert Craven works with the ambitious directors of fast-growing businesses who feel that they could be doing even better.

As a keynote speaker his style is challenging, honest and goading; free of business school hyperbole he makes his audience think. Robert spent five years running training and consultancy programmes for entrepreneurial businesses at Warwick Business School. Running his own consultancy since 1998, he is now one of the UK's best-known and sought-after speakers on marketing and entrepreneurship. Not full of the standard rhetoric, Robert offers practical solutions and tangible business results.

Robert's work on marketing and strategy has been widely published and acted upon by thousands of growing businesses.
His two recent books, Kick-Start Your Business and Customer is King, with forewords by Sir Richard Branson, are both business best-sellers and have been described as 'truly inspirational' by The Independent.

Robert's 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 also does consulting work for, and is personal mentor to the leaders of a number of growing businesses in the UK.

'Chuck out the theory… and ask if staff get on with each other.'

If you keep doing what you've always done… you'll get the same results!'