Every team building experience, made legendary.
From a full-day Crazy Day to a 90-day transformation, a corporate regatta to a give-back bike build — these are the experiences we design, facilitate and run for groups of 5 to 5,000. Mix and match, or let us architect the whole retreat.
The big, high-energy days
Full-day and half-day experiences that test skill, knowledge and teamwork — and almost always give something back to the community around you.
Crazy Day
A high-energy full day that starts early with simple instructions, then runs your team through a rotating series of skill, knowledge and teamwork challenges — with real downtime built in to relax and bond. Fully themed to your venue or city, and limited only by your goals.
Site-specific variants
- Casa Del Mar · Santa MonicaDrive Route 66 in classic Mustangs to the Mother Road Museum, explore Calico ghost town, or race sailboats to Catalina.
- Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay → SFThe Mavericks big-wave tour, Point Bonita Lighthouse & Marin Headlands, and a sail across the Bay.
- Oheka Castle → NYCA Gatsby-themed day: 1920s vehicles, costumed picnic, period actors and a schooner sail.
- Reynolds Plantation · Lake & golfA GPS pontoon race, canoe-and-kayak challenge, bocce and a pro-led fishing tournament.
The Ultimate Hunt
Part scavenger hunt, part adventure race, part learning lab. Random tool-filled backpacks, points for solving clues — and a twist: to take another team’s tool, you have to recruit the teammate holding it.
Explore The Ultimate Hunt →Crazy Hour
A compressed, unforgettable hour: pairs investigate your location with a clue ‘passport,’ then meet local children who’ve never seen such a place — giving them a tour, sharing a meal, and a perspective shift no one forgets.
Orienteering
‘The thinking sport.’ Teams navigate to checkpoints with map and compass — a stroll, hike or race tuned to your group — with team challenges along the way and a facilitated debrief amid great scenery.
Virtual team building that still moves people
We’ve designed emotionally charged virtual experiences since long before it was the only option. They’re 100% turn-key — we ship materials to participants, facilitate every breakout room, and tie it all to a real outcome. Distance doesn’t dull the moment.
Lionel had no idea
A fully virtual bike build where Lenovo’s team built and gave a bike to Lionel — who didn’t know it was coming. The same lump-in-the-throat moment, delivered over video.
And so did Jocelyn
Lionel’s sister Jocelyn was just as surprised. Two kids, two bikes, one remote team that will never forget the day.
Build something a child takes home
Our signature philanthropic activities. Teams build real, road-ready products — then meet the kids who receive them. The emotional core of everything we do.
Building A Dream
Teams build real bikes from the frame up, believing they’ll race them — then the children who receive them ride in. The most powerful experience we offer.
Explore Building A Dream →The Power of Change
Teams assemble skateboards from a bag of parts — a fast, hands-on lesson in embracing change, voluntarily — then gift the boards to local kids.
Explore Get On Board →Shoes That Matter
A production line with a purpose. Teams build durable shoes for children who’ve never owned a pair, and stand up a lasting ‘Shoe Bank.’
Explore Sole Purpose →Power of reCreation
A fast, playful reset in creativity and innovation — your team relearns how to create without limits, then donates soccer balls to youth in need.
Explore Power of reCreation →Sessions that connect heart and mind
Shorter give-back and values sessions that bring a company’s purpose to life — and surprise participants with who they’re really helping.
Puppet Theater
Teams build puppets and stage a short skit around a company value for visiting ‘community leaders’ — who turn out to be local children. The puppets and stage are donated afterward.
Cheerful Giving
Teams assemble gift bags — not knowing why — then learn they’re for parents at a women’s shelter to give their child on a birthday, each with an anonymous letter of hope from a participant.
Innovate This!
A keynote-style session that turns the humble penny into a lesson on innovation: small ideas, ignored alone, are transformative in aggregate — ending with a philanthropic reveal.
The boat becomes your organization
No experience needed — real boats, professional crew and facilitators. Every format turns a day on the water into a living metaphor for how your team works together.
Large Yacht Sailing
32–125 ft boats with professional crew and two facilitators. The ship becomes a living metaphor for your organization — everyone an effective cog in the wheel.
Executive Mental Crunches
A simulated ‘man overboard’ recovery drill that reveals how your team really behaves under pressure — then repeats later in the day to measure how much they’ve changed.
Team Sailing Challenge
A day-long learn-to-sail with constant parallels to your work — culminating in a real local race.
Fun Day at the Races
A corporate regatta — department vs. department, or home vs. visitors — with an onshore debrief and downtime to relax.
Small Boat Regatta
Teams learn, then race small boats — a sharp focus on communication and split-second decisions.
Offshore Adventure
The ultimate version: offshore passages, sunrise at sea, and deep interdependence with master instructors.
Shackleton Leadership Adventure
Built on Shackleton’s Endurance story and five leadership traits: optimism, communication, flexibility, leading by example, and wellbeing.
The framework that makes it stick
Woven around the experiences — never sold as a stack of slides. Our sessions give the day its language and durability, so teams experience what they do, not just what they know.
Developing Trust
Built on Covey’s framework — participants work through every level of trust, starting with self-trust. A natural through-line for an entire retreat.
GroundWorks
Teams identify their core values and build a scalable framework to reinforce them — ‘the way we do things around here’ — as new people arrive.
Innovating Your World
A realistic simulation demanding honest examination of goals and motives, with a philanthropic element that anchors the lesson to the heart.
Communicating from Personal Strengths
Insight into how individuals behave under low and high stress — and how to choose the response that gets the best result. The basis for trust-building.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Pat Lencioni’s model — with trust at the base of the pyramid — as a shared language for the whole retreat, guided by a Lencioni-lineage facilitator.
Experiential Activities & Team Bonding
Short, ~20-minute activities our facilitators weave in to punctuate content and re-energize the room — chosen live for whatever the group needs.
When a day isn’t enough
The 90-Day Challenge
A 90-day personal-transformation program: participants commit to a triathlon and an ‘extreme’ challenge to Abandon Your Shell — built on the paradigm shift that knowledge means nothing without committed action. Works as a retreat launch or capstone.
Team building experience FAQs
What types of team building experiences do you offer? +
Everything from a full-day Crazy Day or an adventure-race Ultimate Hunt to give-back bike, skateboard and shoe builds, corporate sailing, facilitated sessions and large conference events — for groups of 5 to 5,000, in person or virtual.
Do you run virtual or hybrid team building? +
Yes. We’ve designed emotionally charged virtual experiences since 2003 — pre-planned formats like Count Your Blessings and Get On Board, plus fully custom builds. They’re 100% turn-key: we ship any materials to participants and facilitate every breakout room.
Are these just feel-good events? +
No. Every experience connects heart and mind to a real business outcome — customer service, quality, leadership, trust or change — and we follow up on behavior for 30 days to measure how well it sticks. People leave having genuinely learned something, not just enjoyed a day.
How large a group can you handle? +
From an executive team of 5 to a general session of 5,000. Our activities are built to scale, so everyone takes part at once — no one sits on the sidelines.
How far in advance should we book? +
Four to twelve weeks is ideal so we can tailor the experience, coordinate charity partners and ship materials. We’ve also turned events around much faster — just ask.
Let’s architect your day.
Tell us your group size, venue and goals. We’ll recommend the experiences that fit — and weave them into one day your team will never forget.