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Our method

Team building you can measure.

Most team building is a great day that fades by Friday. Ours connects heart and mind to a real business outcome — then follows up on behavior for 30 days to prove it stuck. People leave having genuinely learned something, and loving the company that brought us in.

Heart+MindBusiness outcomeMeasured change
The problem

A good day is not a result

Typical team building

Fun, then forgotten

Ropes courses and trivia nights create a pleasant memory and a few photos. By the next week, nothing about how the team actually works has changed — and there’s no way to know if it did.

Our method

Felt, learned, measured

We make the lesson emotional so it sticks, tie it to a specific outcome leadership cares about, and follow the behavior for 30 days. ‘It worked’ becomes a number, not a vibe.

The method

Four stages, from heart to data

Stage 1

Connect the heart

An emotionally charged experience — often giving back to a child who needs it — makes the moment personal and unforgettable.

Stage 2

Engage the mind

Facilitation ties that emotion to a specific business outcome: customer service, quality, leadership, trust or change.

Stage 3

Practice the behavior

Participants experience what they do, not just what they know — rehearsing the new behavior, not hearing about it.

Stage 4

Measure for 30 days

We follow up on behavior for 30 days against a baseline, so the change is demonstrable — and durable.

The outcomes

What we actually move

Customer service
Quality
Leadership
Trust
Change
The part nobody else does

We follow the behavior for 30 days

The event is where change starts — not where we stop measuring. We track the new behavior for a full month against the team’s baseline, so you can see whether it actually stuck instead of hoping it did.

Day 0Baseline captured; the experience connects heart to outcome.
Days 1–7Early-behavior check — is the new behavior showing up at work?
Days 8–30Sustained tracking against the baseline; coaching nudges where it slips.
Day 30Re-measure and report — demonstrable change, in the data.
4.88/5“Good use of my time” — DaVita evaluation
30 daysOf behavioral follow-up after every engagement
500k+Participants since 2003
2,000+Events, rated 4.76/5 overall
The proof

Read what teammates wrote — on the spot.

When the method lands, you don’t have to argue it worked. After DaVita’s bike build, evaluation forms came back with comments like “the best team building exercise in 20 years of healthcare” and “I’ll remember this my whole life.” That’s heart connected to outcome — and it’s why they love the company that brought us in.

  • Hundreds of unedited comments from a single national meeting.
  • 4.88 / 5 for ‘good use of my time’ — a hard number, not a vibe.
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Children receiving bikes at a Building A Dream event
The Lost Disciplines of Leadership, a leadership fable by James Carter
The thinking behind the method

The Lost Disciplines of Leadership

A leadership fable by our founder, James Carter — the philosophy beneath everything we do: that knowledge means nothing without committed action, and that the disciplines that actually build people are the ones most leaders have forgotten.

More about James Carter

What outcome do you need to move?

Tell us the business result you’re after — service, quality, leadership, trust or change — and we’ll design an experience that moves it, and prove it did.

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