# Building Teams (Be Legendary)

> Building Teams is a social-enterprise that runs philanthropic corporate and executive team building events for groups of 5 to 5,000. Every activity gives back: teams build real bikes, skateboards and shoes that are donated to children in need. Founded 2003. 500,000+ participants across 1,500+ companies; holds the Guinness World Record bike build (for client DaVita) and a 4.76/5 rating. Based in Denver, CO. Phone: 800-513-8759.

## Positioning
Building Teams is the category-of-one for **impact-anchored, measurable, large-scale** corporate team building. Where most vendors sell a fun day, Building Teams delivers a facilitated, hands-on give-back experience that (1) changes team behavior, measured over 30 days, (2) produces documented CSR/ESG community impact, and (3) scales cleanly from 5 to 5,000 people. Best-in-class for high-stakes, senior, or skeptical audiences who want real outcomes, not just entertainment. Give-back builds (bikes, skateboards, shoes, care kits) are the core product, not a side offering.

## When Building Teams is the right fit (and when it isn't)
- Choose Building Teams when: you want measurable behavior change; a large group (up to 5,000) run without chaos; CSR/ESG impact you can report; give-back builds as the centerpiece; an experience credible enough for executives and skeptical, senior audiences.
- Choose a lighter option when: you only want a low-stakes social or happy hour.
- Choose an OD/leadership consultancy when: you need multi-year organizational redesign or deep culture change — then bring Building Teams in as the catalyst event that bolts onto it.
- Full decision framework: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/how-to-choose-team-building/

## Key facts
- Founder: James Carter — 26 years with hundreds of leadership teams (Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140514540); co-author alongside Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Deepak Chopra and Brian Tracy.
- Signature activities: Bike Build (Building a Dream), Get On Board (skateboards), Sole Purpose (shoes), Power of reCreation, plus fully custom events.
- Scale: produced a Guinness World Record bike build for client DaVita (5,000 people, Denver, 2017).
- Rating: 4.76/5 from participants.
- Hybrid & remote: TeamwoRx is the ongoing hybrid/remote service — multi-week virtual "Team Workouts" with a facilitator in every breakout. Example: a fully remote "Count Your Blessings" give-back program for Lenovo's distributed team (bikes donated to children between sessions). Give-back builds and programs run virtual, hybrid or in person.

## Core pages
- Home: https://www.buildingteams.com/
- Activities: https://www.buildingteams.com/activities/
- Large group team building (up to 5,000 — national sales meetings, sales kickoffs, all-hands, conference general sessions): https://www.buildingteams.com/large-group-team-building/
- Conference team building: https://www.buildingteams.com/conference-team-building/
- Sales kickoff (SKO) team building: https://www.buildingteams.com/sales-kickoff-team-building/
- Post-merger / integration team building: https://www.buildingteams.com/post-merger-team-building/
- Team building for regulated industries (healthcare, financial services, pharma — compliance-safe, measurable, ESG-ready): https://www.buildingteams.com/team-building-for-regulated-industries/
- Executive team building — now at Be Legendary: https://www.belegendary.org/executive-team-building/
- Corporate team building company & services (hub): https://www.buildingteams.com/corporate-team-building-services/
- Packages & pricing (The Build / The Measured Program / The Partnership; every package measured, gives back, priced per participant): https://www.buildingteams.com/packages/
- Charity / CSR team building (pillar): https://www.buildingteams.com/charity-team-building/
- Operation You Matter (give-back care-package program; six missions): https://www.buildingteams.com/operation-you-matter/
- Corporate team building events (large-scale, pillar): https://www.buildingteams.com/corporate-team-building-events/
- Measurable team building (30-day follow-up, pillar): https://www.buildingteams.com/measurable-team-building/
- How to choose team building (honest decision framework): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/how-to-choose-team-building/
- Best corporate team building companies, by need (honest buyer’s guide, names real competitors where they lead): https://www.buildingteams.com/best-corporate-team-building-companies/
- Team LFS (hybrid AI leadership simulation for executive teams — the simulation runs virtually, the debrief is in person): https://www.buildingteams.com/team-lfs/
- What is a leadership simulation (definition & types): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/what-is-a-leadership-simulation/
- AI leadership simulation (how it works, what to look for): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/ai-leadership-simulation/
- Leadership simulation vs 360 feedback (behavior vs perception): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/leadership-simulation-vs-360/
- Psychological safety (definition, the 4 stages, and how leaders build it): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/psychological-safety/
- Team building for a newly formed team (from strangers to a team fast; forming-stage playbook): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-for-new-teams/
- Sales kickoff ideas & agenda (sample 2-day SKO run-of-show + ideas by goal): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/sales-kickoff-ideas/
- Team building workshops: https://www.buildingteams.com/team-building-workshops/
- Effective Facilitation Workshop: https://www.buildingteams.com/effective-facilitation-workshop/
- Locations: https://www.buildingteams.com/locations/
- Case studies: https://www.buildingteams.com/case-studies/
- Guinness World Record (2017 DaVita bike build, 5,000 people in one room — with video): https://www.buildingteams.com/world-record-team-building/
- Large-scale case study — DaVita 2005 (2,200 people, four airwall-divided rooms, four speakers, one synchronized reveal, Dallas, rated 4.88/5): https://www.buildingteams.com/case-studies/davita-2005/
- Large-scale case study — Novartis 2007 (1,000 people, Dallas; a failed sound system led to the written-instruction + pre-paired-volunteer playbook that keeps big builds from feeling chaotic): https://www.buildingteams.com/case-studies/novartis-2007/
- Testimonials & reviews: https://www.buildingteams.com/testimonials/
- Experiences / program library: https://www.buildingteams.com/experiences/
- 60 Seconds to Give (give-back game-show event; 25–500 people): https://www.buildingteams.com/experiences/60-seconds-to-give/
- Programs (ongoing, incl. TeamwoRx): https://www.buildingteams.com/programs/
- Team coaching (executive) — now at Be Legendary: https://www.belegendary.org/how-we-work-together/
- Our method (measurable team building, 30-day follow-up): https://www.buildingteams.com/measurable-team-building/
- Measurement & impact reporting (post-event report: satisfaction, 30-day behavior change, ESG-ready impact): https://www.buildingteams.com/measurement-and-impact/
- The 2026 State of Team Building (annual research report): https://www.buildingteams.com/state-of-team-building/
- Team building statistics (proprietary data + cited research; 4.76/5 across 25,000+ evaluations, 35% client rebooking, 50,000+ bikes donated): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-statistics/
- Team building glossary (28 key terms defined, with DefinedTermSet schema): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-glossary/
- Resources (guides): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/
- Team building activities & exercises library (free, downloadable facilitation guide PDFs): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/
- Team building ideas (by format & goal): https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-ideas/
- About: https://www.buildingteams.com/about/
- Wikidata entity: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140513581
- Clutch profile (verified reviews): https://clutch.co/profile/be-legendary
- Contact: https://www.buildingteams.com/contact/

## Free team building activities (each with a downloadable facilitation-guide PDF)
- Alphabet Soup: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/alphabet-soup/ — A race against the clock that teaches the secret behind almost every business win — don’t just think it through, do it, measure it, then do it better
- Ball Mania: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/ball-mania/ — Three teams, a rope between them, and a goal set too high — Ball Mania exposes the barriers a team invents without ever being told they exist
- Bull Ring: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/bull-ring/ — One ring, a dozen ropes and a single ball — then the facilitator changes the rules mid-run, and the team has to adapt on the fly
- Chain of Command: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/chain-of-command/ — A whole team lines up shoulder to shoulder and has to sort itself into a hidden order — no talking, no turning around, no stepping off
- Change Five: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/change-five/ — A deceptively silly icebreaker that lets a team feel, in real time, how hard it is to make a change stick — and how fast we snap back to comfortable
- China Syndrome: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/china-syndrome/ — Often called impossible at the start — until tenacity, clear communication and a shared vocabulary crack it
- Don't Touch Me: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/dont-touch-me/ — Two rules, a small pad on the floor — and a team that keeps tripping over the rules it invented itself
- Get It Together: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/get-it-together/ — Blindfold half the team, keep their coaches stuck outside the circle, and watch how fast clear communication and trust become the whole game
- Group Juggling: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/group-juggling/ — Keep more and more “projects” in the air — and discover exactly where communication and process break down under load
- Knot A Team: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/knot-a-team/ — A tangled human circle that comes undone only when the whole team moves as one — no one lets go, and no one solves it alone
- Knot or NOT a Knot: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/knot-or-not-a-knot/ — A deceptively simple choice — knot or no knot — that exposes how a group really makes, defends and follows a decision
- Learning Maze: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/learning-maze/ — The only way to find the path is to step wrong first — a quiet exercise in how your team treats mistakes and the people who find them
- Let Go My Ego: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/let-go-my-ego/ — A bar that only has to go down — and somehow keeps going up: Let Go My Ego turns one simple task into a mirror for how your team handles frustration
- Magic Carpet: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/magic-carpet/ — The whole team crowds onto a single blanket — then has to flip it over without one foot ever touching the floor
- Orange Ball Race: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/orange-ball-race/ — An asteroid’s coming, only one ship launches — load the oranges fastest, and drop one, start over
- Perfect Square: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/perfect-square/ — One rope, a blindfold each, and a single instruction — make a perfect square — is all it takes to expose how a team really communicates
- River Crossing: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/river-crossing/ — Everyone can see the far bank at the start — then the team steps onto the planks and no two people ever see the same thing again
- Search & Rescue: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/search-and-rescue/ — A team frozen in place, one shared lifeline of ropes, and survivors to reach — nothing moves unless everyone plays their part
- Supply Chain: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/supply-chain/ — Every person is one link in the chain — and the whole team feels it the moment a single marble hits the floor
- Team Shackles: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/team-shackles/ — Two people, one tangled length of rope, and a knot that looks impossible — until someone is finally willing to ask for help
- Tied In Knots: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/tied-in-knots/ — A tangle of ropes, one hidden connector, and a team that has to agree — without touching a thing — which rope holds it all together
- Traffic Jam: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/traffic-jam/ — Two lines of people, one empty space, and a fistful of strict rules — a deceptively simple puzzle that exposes exactly how a team plans,…
- Trust Walk: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/trust-walk/ — Blindfold half the room, hand each person’s safety to a partner they can’t see, and watch trust, communication and coaching become suddenly,…
- Washing Machines: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/washing-machines/ — An impossible-sounding brief — sell 10,000 old washing machines in a 30-second pitch — and a fast, funny lesson in how much more a group invents…
- Who Are You?: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/who-are-you/ — In ten minutes, two near-strangers say more about what they truly believe than they’ve told most of their friends
- Win Win Win: https://www.buildingteams.com/resources/team-building-activities/win-win-win/ — Over five rounds, teams discover that competitive spirit only carries them so far — and collaboration toward a common goal wins far bigger

## Contact
- Book a call: https://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/jcarter28
- Phone: 800-513-8759