
Strategic Games
Motivation … Strategic … Communication … Recognition … Creativity … Fun Games!
Celebrating 40+ Years
Creative team building activities in St. Louis begin with Venture Up. Since 1983 we’ve offered a wide range of events to build team relationships for all professional levels. Today, more than 250,000 people have been part of the Venture Up experience in the U.S. and abroad. We are the nation’s leading provider of team events, and we owe much to our St. Louis clients for our success.
Popular team building programs in St. Louis include Bike Building for Charity, the Amazing Race and Tech Transport. Our events are suitable for everyone. We work with people of all shapes, sizes and cultural backgrounds. Our staff is well experienced working in multicultural settings. We offer programs year round, inside and outdoors, including in Springfield and Kansas City, Missouri.

Motivation … Strategic … Communication … Recognition … Creativity … Fun Games!

Bike Building for kids in need is our most popular charity-based team building event. Our corporate clients have donated more than 15,000 bikes to underserved children, often high achievers who lack financial resources or may come from struggling single-parent families. Corporate giving has gained momentum in the last decade, and we expect to expand our reach to developing countries, where adults and children use bikes not just for play, but for work and as their main source of transportation.
Our traditional bike building events begin with Strategic Games, a program designed to energize and motivate teams for the tasks ahead. Some challenges may be cooperative, while others involve friendly competition. As we progress to the bike building session, teams with assigned children’s names get to work creating poster-sized cards for each bike.

Amazing Race Locations:
Pittsburgh – Las Vegas – New Orleans – San Diego – Santa Monica – Richmond – Portland – Scottsdale – Boston – Buffalo – Detroit – Minneapolis – Nashville – Omaha – Milwaukee – Raleigh – St. Louis – Virginia Beach – Chicago – Atlanta – Madison – Columbus – Charlotte – Phoenix – Atlanta – Puerto Rico – South Beach – Ft. Lauderdale – Birmingham – Little Rock – Greenville – Dallas – San Antonio – Houston – Park City – San Juan – and more.

Rise to the challenge and fun with Venture Up’s Team Survivor and Minutes-to-Win-It event. Inspired by the popular TV shows, this combo program is competitive and geared for all abilities and professional levels. Teams stay intact and compete head-to-head through a course of mental challenges. No need for athletes on this event since activities are doable for all levels when some games call for physical involvement, which is always voluntary.

“”Think Inside The Box?” That’s what Venture Up’s new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you’ll love “Escape The Case“.

Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors.

No manuals, no technical support and no two ways to create the life-size motorless car that will send your team “volunteer” across the finish line in winning style. Venture Up’s Mega Car 500 is a fun and colorful event that requires teams to design and produce human–propelled race vehicles from scratch.

Rise up to the challenge with our Team Survivor and Minute-to-Win- combo program, inspired by the popular TV shows. This interactive event relies on ingenuity, quick thinking, and skillful collaboration, and is suitable for teams diverse in every possible way.
The program is fast-paced, fun and competitive. Teams stay intact throughout the event, moving station-to-station, facing tricky obstacles and taking on problem-solving games. After successfully completing each challenge, teams win a certain number of beads depending on how quickly they finish each task. The more beads a teams wins, the closer they are to victory.
Being aware of the strict time limit energizes the team from the onset. They quickly engage, share their talents as they compete with other teams. They’re having fun, working intensely, under self-imposed pressure and find new ways to be efficient and productive at every turn.
The program culminates in a festive finale when all the teams return to the central meeting area. Top performers are announced, and the winning teams revel in victory. What has the most impact for many teams is how Venture Up leaders tie the experience in at the finale. Teams at work must stay competitive to keep a leading edge in driving their team, their department and company forward.
Ask us about these popular activities to include in your event: Rat-a-pult Building, The Maze, Teamwood, Bag-it, Arrowheads, Bit Dicey, String Race, Scrabbled, Focus Tubes, Minds that Matter, Inked, Knott’s Not, Flip It, Animal Crossing and many more.

No direction. No instructors … and no two ways to build the life-size motor-free boat that will send your team across the finish line in winning style. Quick collective thinking, creativity and problem-solving are critical to making an efficient water-worthy vessel in record time.

Venture Up staff return calls immediately and deliver proposals within a few hours for team building St Louis and around the world. We work on short notice or plan months ahead. You can expect us to manage the details and stay in touch, so you have the peace of mind and freedom to tend to other matters of your conference. Our aim is to exceed your expectations, and history shows we can.
About 80 percent of our team building St Louis business and around the world involves corporate clients, who prove that word of mouth is the greatest advertising. We also work with many government and non-profit groups; school districts, charities, and federal agencies, such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
Many of our team building clients are also winners of the J. D. Power & Associates Award — and J. D. Power & Associates itself is on our client list. Venture Up also has a long-standing track record working
with Fortune 100 firms, and with people of all shapes, sizes, physical abilities and cultural backgrounds. Team Building groups range in sizes range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns # 148821721
A high percentage of our team building St Louis business is generated from repeat clients and referrals. We are therefore driven towards innovation. We’re constantly developing new methods and programs to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. In these changing times, team building activities are not a luxury but essential in making teams more efficient and strengthening corporate culture.
In St Louis, team building clients just love the classic Amazing Race, the hilarious fun of Four Way Volleyball, charity events like Bionic Hands, and the great outdoor fun of the Mega Boat Regatta!
St Louis and Missouri Team Building
Many team building events in St Louis take place at smaller conference hotels, public parks and company grounds. Clients with larger groups often tend toward luxury conference sites, such as the following:
Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis
The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis
The Raphael Hotel, Autograph Collection
Ameristar Casino Resort Spa St. Charles
Moonrise Hotel
The Westin St. Louis
Hotel Sorella Country Club Plaza
Ambassador Hotel Kansas City
River City Casino & Hotel
D’Monaco Resort
VENTURE UP St. Louis — 314-260-7820 / 111 West Port Plaza Suite 600 / St. Louis, MO 63146