Celebrating 40+ Years
Creative team building in Nashville begins with Venture Up. Since 1983, organizations have partnered with us to enhance team meetings through hands-on, engaging experiences. Over the years, more than 500,000 participants have taken part in Venture Up programs, including teams from a wide range of industries and professional backgrounds. We work with people of all shapes, sizes, and cultural backgrounds, and also deliver programs in Franklin, Memphis, and surrounding areas of Tennessee.
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 and 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.
Venture Up staff are responsive and easy to work with. We support both short-notice requests and long-term planning. From early coordination through event delivery, we manage the details and stay in touch so you can focus on other aspects of your meeting or event. Our history reflects that approach.
About 80 percent of our Nashville team building work comes from repeat clients and referrals. We take pride in that. Rather than advertising, our work in Nashville continues through long-term client relationships and word of mouth. We work with corporate organizations as well as government and non-profit groups, including school districts, charities, and federal agencies such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
Venture Up has a long-standing track record working with Fortune 100 firms and facilitating programs for people of all shapes, sizes, physical abilities, and cultural backgrounds. Team building group sizes typically range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns #148821721
A high percentage of our Nashville team building work comes from repeat clients and referrals, which drives continuous improvement in our programs. Activities are refined and updated to remain relevant, engaging, and effective. For many Nashville organizations, team building is not a luxury but an essential part of maintaining effective teamwork and supporting a strong corporate culture.
We deliver Nashville team building events in conference hotels, meeting venues, parks, and corporate settings throughout the area. Clients with larger groups often choose venues in and around Nashville, as well as nearby cities such as Franklin and Memphis, that offer ample space and logistical support for group programs.
