Celebrating 40+ Years
Team Building Arizona
Featured Events
Strategic Games
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…
Bike Building
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.
Amazing Race Scavenger Hunt
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
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 Case
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
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
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
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
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.
ARIZONA TEAM BUILDING EVENTS
Arizona! That’s where it all began for us in 1983. Venture Up has since offered team events on five continents for more than 250,000 people. We have a long history working in culturally diverse settings. Venture Up founders have traveled to more than 50 countries, and have shaped the company to serve groups from all walks of life. We owe much gratitude to Arizona for sparking our tradition in corporate team building. We also partner with Arizona companies to enrich connections between their employees and the local community.
Team Building Clients in Arizona
We are honored to have been involved in team building events with these Arizona companies (a partial list).
Amkor, American Airlines, Alliant, American Express, Apollo Group, Arizona Federal Credit Union, APS, Avnet, B of A, Banner Health, Bar S Foods, Best Buy, Best Western, Blue Cross, Boeing, Caliber, Charles Schwab, Coca Cola, Desert Schools, Dial, Discount Tire, FedEx, Fennimore Craig, GoDaddy, Honeywell, Humana, IBM, Infusionsoft, Integrity, Intel, IT Solutions, Insight, JDA, Jobing, JP Morgan Chase, Lewis & Roca, Lowes, Marriott, Medtronic, Medisys, Motorola, Pinnacle West. Ratheon, Shamrock, Southwest Airlines, SRP, Starwood, State Farm, Swift, United Health Group, UPS, Vanguard, Verizon, Waste Management, Wells Fargo
The following business schools in Arizona are on Venture Up’s client list:
W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University, Tempe
W. A. Franke College of Business
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona, Tucson
At your service
Venture Up staff return calls immediately and deliver proposals within 24 hours. 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 the freedom to tend to other matters of your team building event. Our aim is to exceed your expectations, and history shows we can.
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About 80 percent of our team building business 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 and other list firms, and with people of all shapes, sizes, physical abilities and cultural backgrounds. Team Building groups range in sizes from 8 to 1,000 or more.
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Innovation
Venture Up thrives on repeat business. Our clients demand something different and something new each time we meet. We are driven toward innovation and are constantly developing new methods and programs to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. Our clients view team building activities not as a luxury, but essential to maintaining a productive, engaged teams that strengthen corporate culture.