Celebrating 40+ Years
Planning a meeting, training day, or offsite in Birmingham? Venture Up designs and facilitates team building experiences work fast, fit your space and reinforce your meeting goals and company culture. Our programs get people participating quickly, strengthen communication, and improves how the group works together.
Venture Up has supported organizations in Birmingham since 1983.
When your schedule is tight, the session has to be fun, applicable, and worth the time.
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 (weather permitting).
Most programs run 2–4 hours. Short formats and multi-session options are available. We fill the time you have.
From 8 to 1,000+
Collaborative, competitive, and charity-focused options
In the Birmingham area, plans often include people coming in from downtown offices and nearby hubs like Hoover and Homewood for hotel meetings and training rooms.
Send your date, group size, and meeting goals. Our Birmingham staff respond quickly and deliver proposals promptly. Whether planning ahead or working on short notice, we stay in touch throughout the process so you can focus on the meeting, not the moving parts.
If you’re comparing options, browse our team building activities and we’ll recommend the best fit for your meeting goals.
Most of our work, around 80%, comes from corporate clients through repeat business and referrals. We also support government agencies, non-profits, school districts, and federal organizations.
In Jefferson County, meetings often bring together cross-functional teams, managers, and support groups who do not work side-by-side every day. That mix is common across Birmingham’s healthcare, finance, and manufacturing footprint.
Across 40+ years, we’ve kept improving how challenges are introduced, how teams share information, and how debriefs connect back to communication and collaboration at work. The result is a session that feels enjoyable and useful, not just a break in the day.
Modern teams are busy and often split across departments or locations. The best program is the one that includes everyone, runs clean on a real schedule, and reinforces company values. Share what success looks like for your meeting, and we’ll recommend a program that matches it.
America’s team builders.
We make meetings fun.
Your date, estimated headcount, venue type, and your goals for the program. There are no wrong answers! We’ll recommend best-fit options and send a proposal.
Yes. Most programs are designed for standard meeting spaces like offices, conference rooms, and hotel ballrooms. Outdoor options work too when weather and space allow.
Yes. We bring the equipment and materials needed for the program, facilitate the experience, and manage on-site flow so your team can focus on the meeting.
Short-notice events are possible depending on schedule and program availability. Share your date and time window and we’ll try and make it happen.
Yes. Programs are structured so participation is clear and inclusive, even with cross-functional groups and different comfort levels.
Yes. If you need a low-profile session, tell us your preference and we’ll keep coordination and facilitation appropriately discreet.
