Transformational business leader, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker.
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Kevin Gaskell is an internationally respected business leader, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker celebrated for turning around iconic brands and building high-performing teams. Beginning his career in civil engineering before transitioning into management accounting, Kevin developed a rare blend of operational insight and financial discipline.
A chance job advertisement led him to Porsche, where his strategic clarity and dynamic leadership propelled him to Managing Director at just thirty-two. He later applied his turnaround expertise at Lamborghini and BMW, consistently delivering record-breaking performance and global brand revitalisation.
With more than three decades of hands-on leadership across corporate and entrepreneurial environments, Kevin has founded and guided multiple successful international ventures. His leadership philosophy centres on practical tools, clear communication, and empowering teams to embrace ambitious objectives. Known for his belief that a struggling company can be rescued in one hundred days and transformed in one thousand, Kevin’s methodology has inspired leaders across industries.
Beyond the boardroom, Kevin applies the same high-performance principles to extreme expeditions, including traversing the Arctic and Antarctic, summiting formidable mountains, and rowing across the Atlantic.
Kevin Gaskell is an extraordinary business leader whose career spans civil engineering, world-class automotive brands, high-growth enterprises, and extreme expeditions. He began his professional journey as a Civil Engineer, contributing to major construction projects before transitioning into management accounting—an experience that gave him a powerful command of the financial mechanics behind successful organizations.
A single job advertisement in the Sunday Times and a lifelong passion for cars redirected his path once again. Kevin joined Porsche, and at just 32 years old he was appointed Managing Director. Over the next five years, he revitalized the company, rebuilding customer trust, transforming operations, and restoring Porsche to market-leading performance.
Kevin’s leadership reputation expanded across the automotive world, guiding Porsche, Lamborghini, and BMW to record-breaking results. Beyond these iconic brands, he has founded and scaled international companies, chaired high-growth ventures, and led management teams through dramatic turnarounds and strategic transformations.
With more than 30 years of hands-on leadership experience—achieving far more than many well-known “Dragons” in business—Kevin brings a rare blend of insight, energy, and practicality to every stage he steps onto. Known for his mantra that you can rescue a company in 100 days and build a world-class enterprise in 1000 days, he equips organizations with the tools, frameworks, and mindset needed for sustainable success.
Kevin’s approach is grounded in inspired leadership, a philosophy he has applied not only in boardrooms but also in some of the world’s most challenging environments. He has assembled and led teams across:
The Arctic
The Antarctic
Remote mountain summits
The Atlantic Ocean
These extreme expeditions mirror the principles Kevin teaches in business: clarity of purpose, resilience, disciplined execution, and unwavering teamwork.
Today, Kevin Gaskell serves as chair, investor, and strategic partner to a select portfolio of organizations. His work focuses on:
Accelerating market-leading growth
Turning strategy into action
Leading organizations through complex change
Coaching executives to build cohesive, high-performance teams
A natural communicator, Kevin inspires at every level of an organization. His presentations are rich with real-world examples, practical tools, and leadership techniques that can be applied immediately in any business context. His passion and energy leave audiences not only motivated, but equipped to achieve extraordinary results.
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A powerful 2m53 showcase of Kevin Gaskell’s leadership philosophy, illustrating how extraordinary results emerge when leaders create environments where people can excel and inspire one another.
This 2 minute 53 second showreel presents Kevin Gaskell’s central message that greatness is achieved not by focusing on what we pursue, but by recognising who inspires and drives us. The video opens with reflective questions about what moves people to become champions and what enables them to reach and sustain peak performance. Kevin states that the answer lies in people, not tasks or systems, and in the leaders who create environments where individuals can express themselves, contribute meaningfully, and elevate the world around them.
He explains that every person has the capacity to lead others toward exceptional outcomes. By encouraging ambition, supporting belief, and providing the conditions for growth, leaders help teams reach extraordinary heights while fulfilling personal aspirations. Kevin emphasises that success multiplies when leadership is distributed. A single powerful leader can drive major progress, but organisations become transformative when dozens of leaders emerge at every level.
Gaskell describes his role as developing leaders across a team, turning ordinary individuals into champions by aligning them behind shared passion and purpose. He reinforces that extraordinary accomplishments arise from collective effort and that even the person standing at the summit never arrives alone. Behind every achievement is a team inspired by leadership that sets clear direction and cultivates belief.
The showreel closes by underscoring that greatness comes from leaders who inspire confidence, unlock potential, and guide organisations to their next level of success. The message returns to its starting point: the key to achievement is not what drives us, but who.
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