Celebrating 40+ Years
Planning a meeting, training day, or offsite in Phoenix? Planning a meeting, training day, or offsite in Phoenix? Whether you’re an HR partner, meeting planner, executive assistant, or a team leader trying something new, you need more than just a fun break. You want an interactive experience that supports the purpose of the meeting, gets participation fast, feels professional in the room, and supports what the day is trying to improve once everyone is back in sessions.
Venture Up began in Phoenix in 1983
We provide clear instructions, inclusive facilitation, and quickly engage people to make participation easy.
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With every completed challenge, the bar is raised…
Venture Up’s Bike Builder Challenge for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a fast, meaningful, and highly rewarding team experience.
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities – correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable, high-energy group event!
Minutes-to-Win-It and Team Survivors is a fast-paced, high-energy team challenge inspired by classic competition shows. Teams face a multitude of mental and light physical challenges that reward creativity, communication, and collaboration. From indoors to outdoors and small to large spaces and groups, this event is our favorite on-site competitive program.
Escape the Case is Venture Up’s hit conference-room escape game is for groups of 10-500+. Teams organize fractured clues through a series of locked metal cases using clues, ciphers, and clever tools. Fast, high-tech, and wildly fun, with a surprise final collaboration twist to unite the group. Lightly based on the escape room concept but built with 40+ years of professional team development experience.
Game-On Olympics is a high-energy team competition blending creative challenges, problem-solving, and friendly rivalry. Teams face off across multiple stations, earning points as they compete for medals and recognition. Designed for indoor or outdoor spaces, the event features a fun opening ceremony and a down-to-the-wire finish before Bronze, Silver, and Gold claim their podium.
Mega Car 500 is a high-energy engineering challenge where teams design, build, and race life-size, human-powered vehicles with no instructions and no preset solutions. Using provided materials, groups collaborate to create functional cars that must carry a teammate through a competitive course. The experience builds to a crowd-cheered race and awards ceremony, delivering creativity, collaboration, and bragging rights.
Team Survivor | Minutes-to-Win-It delivers nonstop action through short, engaging challenges that test problem-solving, teamwork, and adaptability. Teams stay intact as they rotate through a series of mental, creative, and light physical challenges, earning points with every success. Designed to reward ingenuity, communication, and collaboration this flexible event is a blast for competitive teams.
Mega Boat Regatta is a high-energy build-and-race challenge where teams design and construct life-size, human-powered boats with no instructions and no preset solutions. Using provided materials, and no-instructions teams collaborate to create water-worthy vessels before racing them head-to-head. The experience is unique, fun and rewarding for racers and spectators alike.
Per-person, all-inclusive. Rates vary by program, group size, and scheduling
Any general open space like at hotels, conference rooms, offices, meeting halls, or outdoors
Most programs run 2–4 hours. Have a shorter or longer event? We fill the time you have from 30-minutes to multi-day events
From 8 to 1,000+
Collaborative, competitive, and charity-focused options
We have several Amazing Race Scavenger Hunts here in Phoenix, perfect for local and visiting groups
Phoenix offsites often run inside tight hotel schedules, with limited windows between sessions and quick room flips. We plan for that reality in the Phoenix area, including Tempe, Mesa and the Scottsdale resort corridor and downtown Phoenix conference hotels. We design programs that set up efficiently in ballrooms and meeting rooms, keep participation easy for cross-functional groups, and leave you with a clean wrap-up that ties back to how the team moves forward.
Comparing options? Browse our team building activities or contact us. Send your date, group size, and meeting goals and we’ll recommend best-fit programs and follow up quickly with next steps.
Around 80% of our work comes from corporate clients through repeat business and referrals. We also serve nonprofit teams, educators, and government agencies with programs across Arizona including Tucson, Flagstaff, Sedona and Prescott.
In Maricopa County, teams commonly include a wide mix of departments, tenures, and personalities, especially across healthcare, finance, aerospace, and technology. We keep refining program flow so teams share information better, align faster, and leave with takeaways that connect directly to communication and collaboration back at work.
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Over 40+ years, across five continents, more than a half-million people have taken part in Venture Up team building programs, and Phoenix is still home base.
America’s team builders.
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Most groups choose indoor space during hotter months. If you still want an outdoor component, plan for shade, short segments with shade available, and hydration.
Yes. Most programs are designed for general open space and work well in office training rooms, conference rooms, and larger open areas.
Yes. We use clear instructions and inclusive facilitation so mixed roles and experience levels can participate comfortably and contribute.
Yes. We recommend programs built around communication and information sharing so cross-functional teams collaborate quickly and leave with shared takeaways.
Yes. Our break downs are brief but applicable so talking points don't become lectures.
Once we have your key details, we respond quickly and can typically turn around a proposal within a few hours.
Yes. If discretion matters, tell us your preference and we’ll keep coordination and on-site delivery appropriately low-profile.
