Webinar: Making Great Life Decisions - Bern
How do we make decisions in a world where markets can fall and Covid can strike at any moment? We all want what's best for ourselves and our families but all too often the uncertain nature of the world in which we live intervenes.
Former professional poker player turned motivational speaker and coach, Caspar Berry uses the knowledge he learnt at the tables of Las Vegas to understand how we can make friends with uncertainty and tame luck to gain greater confidence in an uncertain world.
Caspar Berry started his working life as an actor in the BBC drama Byker alongside Ant and Dec. He studied economics at Cambridge before making the momentous decision to move to Las Vegas and become a professional poker player. Now a veteran of over 2,000 speeches in 30 countries, Caspar uses these unique experiences to deliver challenging messages about risk-taking and decision-making to maximize returns in an increasingly uncertain world. Please see further information about Caspar Berry below.
Tune in to this Zoom Webinar on Thursday, July 29nd at 20:00 CET (20:00 Zurich, 19:00 London, 14:00 New York).
Your Zoom meeting link can be found directly on the ticket. You can access the link without installing the Zoom app and it can be used on both your laptop and mobile device. Should you have any issues, please find our Zoom instructions here.
120 members and guests from 47 cities attended
Caspar Berry started his working life at the age of 16 as an actor in the first two series of BBC drama Byker Grove with “Ant and Dec”. They went on to become two of the most famous people in the UK and Caspar went on to study economics at Cambridge where he had early commercial success directing award-winning short films and TV commercials from the age of 18. He went on to write two feature films which were produced by Film Four and Columbia TriStar before he had graduated.
Caspar went on to write and direct in the film and television industry for much of the next four years before deciding that he was heading towards the age of 30 without having lived much of life outside of that crazy and unreal world. So aged 26, he decided to take a risk and move to Las Vegas with his life savings in his pocket.
Playing poker was disciplining, testing and demanding but also incredibly emotionally rewarding as he conquered the challenges it posed and made a living as a professional poker player at the tables of Las Vegas.
After three years, however, he decided that his future lay away from the poker table and he returned to the UK and set up Twenty-First Century Media which he built to a team of 40 before selling to Bob Geldof’s Ten Alps plc.
At around this time, in 2005, the poker boom happened, and Caspar had already started speaking professionally so he moved to London to create a portfolio career as a trainer for the Mind Gym by day (delivering over 400 sessions to 100 companies) and a TV poker commentator by night (doing over 2000 hours of live broadcasting
on poker channels and Sky Sports). In 2006 he was asked to be one of the two poker advisors on the James Bond movie “Casino Royale”, tasked with training the actors up to look like professional poker players for the key scenes.
In the last 14 years, Caspar has delivered over 2,000 speeches and training sessions in more than 30 countries for nearly 500 organisations including the biggest companies in the world. He now mentors young speakers and brings together all the otherwise disparate skills he’s learnt over his career – writing, directing, training, economics – to help young speakers craft messages culled from their own life that are focused on helping people and businesses make profound changes in all manner of ways.
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