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.
Popular Nashville team building programs include Technicolor Transport, Strategic Games, Bike Building, and the Amazing Race. Teams vary widely in size, structure, and experience level. Programs are adapted to support participation, collaboration, and practical takeaways teams can apply back at work.
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 under served 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.
Have a small time window and looking for a charity event that makes a real impact? Check out Stuff-A-Thon! a fast pace charity energizer focused on doing the most amount of good in the shortest period of time. Stuffed animals are high-quality and donated to local charities, police and firefighters. Each animal donated is given directly to the local organization who then gifts the animal to a child in need.
Wagons Ho! is a collaborative charity team-building experience designed for groups of all sizes and backgrounds. Teams work together to build high-quality wagons and prepare stuffed animals that are donated to a local charity or family support organization. Along the way, teams personalize their donations with handwritten cards, decorated T-shirts, and more.
Venture Up’s Bridge Builders is a fresh take on the classic engineering challenge designed specifically for meetings and time frames of 1.5-2.5 hours. Teams are tasked to build up to 3 specific bridge styles with limited supplies and given unexpected requirements that push teams to think fast, make decisions, and produce a finished product within the allotted time.
Project 15: The Maze is a highly strategic simulation designed to show how multiple teams collaborate toward a single organizational goal. Small groups work simultaneously on interconnected tasks, requiring communication, integration, and learning across boundaries. The program highlights how alignment and shared insight drive success beyond individual or departmental performance.
Technicolor Transport is a hands-on problem-solving challenge where teams design, build, and operate a custom fluid-transport system. Participants collaborate to create a working solution, then rely solely on valves to route colored fluids accurately. This unique event emphasizes efficiency, team decision-making, and execution under pressure. It’s harder than it looks!
Our pricing is per person and based on group size, event type, and our team’s schedule. Contact us with your group information.
Wherever your meeting is, we’ll be there.
Programs run on average 2.5 hours but are flexible to your time frame from 30-minutes to multi-day sessions.
If this is your first structured team event, check out Strategic Games, Escape the Case, or our Amazing Race Scavenger Hunt running throughout downtown Nashville and the Broadway honky-tonks.
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
Repeat clients and referrals drives continuous improvement in our Nashville team building 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.
Our events are flexible, pick a space that works for your group and we'll send over options that work or ask us for some venue recommendations.
Absolutely. We have a range of events we offer that run <1 hour.
Tell us your meeting goals and we'll send over ideas.
Our Amazing Race Scavenger Hunt is an excellent way to discover a city for the first time, or even experience a familiar one in a new way. You also can't go wrong with our Strategic Games which is great for groups who don't meet in-person often.
Team events since 1983
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