Build Stronger Teams—On Purpose

Customized team building that brings big energy, real connection, and better ways of working together—leaving an impression on your team that lasts well beyond a single day.

Led by expert facilitators. Designed around your goals. Trusted for over 30 years.

Team Building That’s Actually Fun,
and Actually Works

We believe that team building should be the kind of fun that moves a team forward—engaging, intentional, and meaningful.

At Adventure Associates, expect laughs, collaboration, and optional friendly competition — the kind that earns bragging rights, not bruised egos. Our team building experiences are carefully designed to help teams strengthen communication, trust, and collaboration through shared challenges that meet people where they are.

This isn’t about putting on a show. It’s about creating experiences your team can build on long after the day ends.

What Makes Our Team Building Different

Most team building companies start with activities.
We start with outcomes.

Every program is:

The result? Experiences that feel energizing—not awkward—and productive—not forced. 

Experiences Built Around Your Team

Our team building programs can be designed for:

Programs may include problem-solving challenges, creative collaboration, outdoor adventures, or interactive indoor experiences—always selected and adapted with purpose.

If you’re unsure what’s right, that’s expected. Helping you figure that out is part of our job.

Explore Our Programs

Memorable, Impactful, Successful and… Fun!

Team Performance Challenges

This program brings to life theories & models about team dynamics & role identification, featuring guided debriefs after each challenge.

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Pursuit

Teams strategize how to acquire the greatest number of points for completing a series of activities located at a local park or your conference center.

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Trail Venture

A great team building activity for getting out into nature while practicing teamwork, our Trail Venture program is an invigorating choice for your group.

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GeoTrek

GeoTrek, based on the recreational sport of geo-caching, blends adventure & technology into an exhilarating team experience w/ scavenger hunt-like elements.

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Build a Boat

Challenge your team to work collaboratively to design boats out of cardboard and other materials that actually float in this team building activity!

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Build a Bridge

The Build a Bridge team building activity is great for challenging the mind & for improving communication & collaboration skills -- plus, it's super fun!

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Get, Set… Go!

Complete a set of missions and challenges with your group in this dynamic team building event.

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Jumpstart

This fast-paced program involves a series of mental & physical activities ranging from elaborate problem-solving to light-hearted contests.

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Out of the Box: An Escape Room Style Game

Our portable escape room style game will keep your group engaged and entertained in this unique team building experience.

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Deep Dive

Working in teams to tackle a series of challenges, you’ll explore a retail area to better understand the initiatives most critical to your business.

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Team Orienteering

Explore some of the preeminent forest preserves and state parks in the U.S. while working as a collective force to achieve a common goal.

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Zoolutions

Working in small teams with a series of assignments to complete, you’ll explore a zoo to better understand the initiatives most critical to your business.

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Ropes Course – High-Low

Ropes courses make for a great corporate team building activity. Adventure Associates offers high and low ropes options with professional facilitators.

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Indoor Rock Climbing

Mobilize your team to develop their coaching skills, goal-setting processes, and creative problem-solving expertise with this intensive team challenge.

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Play for the Kids

This scavenger hunt at a local mall focuses on giving back to the community by purchasing items for kids in need, all while tackling challenges for points.

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Buildin’ Bikes

In this fast-paced charity team building program, your team completes challenges and builds bikes for children in the local community.

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Golf for Goodness Sake

This program combines building a mini-golf course with giving back to the local community by donating non-perishable food items to a food bank or shelter.

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Great Speech

Stories have the power to move us—& your team has a wealth of these inspirational experiences to draw from as you collaborate on a team motivational speech.

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Get, Set… Give!

Use GPS units to explore a city with your group while giving back to the community in this rewarding team building event.

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Countdown

This action-packed & fast-paced team building competition inspired by NBC's Minute-to-Win-It will get everyone engaged!

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Team Sailing

Team Sailing is a great analogy for the practice of adapting to change in the workplace—adjusting to the wind and getting the whole team back to harbor.

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Storytelling

Adventure Associates teaches you the art of creating and delivering a business story that connects, resonates, persuades and inspires.

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Ropes Course – High

Our High Ropes Course for corporate teams brings adventure, challenges and relationship-building to your retreat.

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Land and Sea Challenge

This program is a great fit for organizations seeking a little adventure. Teams rotate through an array of water & land-based challenges during the day.

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Urban Quest

Urban Quest, a riddle based scavenger hunt, is an exciting and engaging team building experience which focuses on a particular urban region.

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Lego Landmarks – A Lego Team Building Program

Get your team's creative juices flowing with our fun and challenging Lego Landmarks team building program.

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The Big Seek: A Scavenger Hunt

A fun, fast-paced scavenger hunt adaptable to almost any locale, The Big Seek will get your team excited and engaged while completing their challenges.

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Virtual

Create an experience that connects your virtual co-workers through action-packed and engaging experiences. Escape room, puzzles or trivia - try them all.

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What Teams Walk Away With

Team building isn’t the goal. Stronger teams are.

Talk with us about your team.

Let’s talk about your team.

Whether you’re planning a retreat, a training session, or something entirely custom, we’d love to learn more about what you’re working toward.

Start a conversation with Adventure Associates—and let’s design something meaningful together.