Workshops, team building and leadership offsites across the USA
Facilitators, speakers and practitioners from coast to coast lead leadership offsites, kickoffs, team days, resilience workshops and wellbeing for US companies of every size.
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How US companies bring their people together
Each occasion is led by a Culturist based in your region or one who travels to your venue, anywhere in the country.
Leadership offsite facilitation across the United States
A leadership offsite runs inside your own venue and agenda. Your strategy work stays with your team; facilitated blocks open the day, sharpen how leaders speak and decide together, and close it with intent. Formats suit a senior team of eight or a leadership gathering of sixty.
A health system of 10,000 briefed a retreat for 15 to 20 leaders after staff changes.
Safe to Speak, a psychological safety lab
A hands-on lab that gives leaders and teams the trust to speak up, raise concerns and learn from mistakes together.
With Valerie
Conflict skills for daily work
A certified mediator with two decades as an international HR executive gives teams practical ways to work through everyday conflict.
With Sandra
An immersive storytelling lab
A theater-inspired lab that helps leaders find the essence of their story and use it to shape strategy and culture.
With Colin
Composure for leaders on deadline
A New York coach settles the room with breath and sound, then leads a values reflection that sends each leader back calmer.
With Hamad
Sample agenda, formats and group sizes
Sample agenda: one day, built from sessions on this page.
| Format | Length | Group | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening: The Opening, with Leila | 90 minutes | 5 to 60 | Your venue, anywhere in the US |
| Morning: your own strategy session, facilitated by Julia, a Certified Professional Facilitator | Set with your agenda | Your leadership team | Your venue |
| Midday: Meeting Detox or Priority Clarity Lab, with Jim | 30 to 75, or 60 to 120 minutes | 6 to 30, or 5 to 20 | Southern California, or online |
| Afternoon: Leadership in Motion, with Annie | 45 to 90 minutes | 6 to 40 | Your venue |
| Close: What is Your Leadership Legacy?, with Jodi | 60 to 180 minutes | 8 to 1,000 | Your venue, or online |
Culture and communication workshops fit the same day: Maxine's Trust Formula and Presence in 3 Stages run 60 to 90 minutes for 7 to 15, Angela's Plant Your Garden sets shared goals in 90 to 120 minutes for 5 to 30, and Patrick's Lead with Soul moves leaders into peer coaching in 60 to 90 minutes for 10 to 60. See also leadership offsite facilitation and, for a New York team, leadership offsites in New York.
Executive retreats and leadership offsites for VP teams, wherever you meet in the country, have their own page: leadership offsites and executive retreats across the US.
Who can facilitate a leadership offsite for a team spread across several states?
Choose the city that suits most of your leaders and bring them into one room. Leila travels anywhere in the country, Annie works across the US, and Julia facilitates at your venue. Jim's labs also run online, so a colleague who cannot travel still takes part in the same session.
What could a one-day leadership offsite agenda include?
One version opens with Leila's 90-minute arrival block, gives the morning to your own strategy session with Julia facilitating, uses midday for one of Jim's labs on meetings or priorities, spends the afternoon on Annie's movement work on presence and closes with Jodi's session on leadership legacy.
Who can facilitate a retreat for a health system leadership team after staff changes?
Briefs like this ask for communication, connection and a shared view of change; a health system of about 10,000 people sent us one for 15 to 20 leaders. Julia leads leadership and team development retreats built on trust and inclusive decision-making, and Leila opens the first morning.
Can a professional services leadership team work on trust and psychological safety?
Yes. Maxine, a former strategy executive and the author of two books on leading teams, runs The Trust Formula for 7 to 15 people in 60 to 90 minutes, and her work centers on psychologically safe teams. It sits well in the middle of an offsite day.
Conference and kickoff sessions, from a breakout to a ballroom
A company meeting or sales kickoff can open on a keynote with live flamenco, warm up a hall of thousands with icebreakers, then move to round tables for a workshop on team cohesion. Improv, laughter and communication labs fill breakouts from 30 minutes to three and a half hours.
Dancing Through Change, with live flamenco
A keynote on leading change, joined by a live flamenco showcase, for a conference hall or a full company meeting.
With Ana Lucia
Icebreakers for the whole hall
Icebreakers for a room of any size, then creative communication practice, shaped by fifteen years of internal communications at Google and Meta.
With Kalle
The Cohesion Catalyst, a team workshop
An interactive workshop that builds trust, clearer communication and smoother collaboration, so a team leaves more connected and aligned.
With Claire
A storytelling session for the main stage
Brooke teaches a conference audience to build and deliver a story people remember and act on.
With Brooke
Formats for a conference or kickoff
| Format | Length | Group | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote and workshop, What is Your Leadership Legacy?, with Jodi | 60 to 180 minutes | 8 to 1,000 | In person or online |
| Story as Soulwork, with Patrick | 60 to 75 minutes | 20 to 200 | In person, travels nationwide |
| Leave Them Speechless, improv, with Sammy | 30 to 90 minutes | 10 to 100 | Bay Area, and nationwide |
| Creative Communications and Icebreaker, with Kalle | 60 to 180 minutes | 5 to 3,000 | Your venue, in the US or Europe |
| Laughter Wellness Presentation, with Noreen | 30 to 90 minutes | 5 to 50 | Across the US |
| The Cohesion Catalyst, with Claire | 30 to 60 minutes | 10 to 45 | Your venue, and travels globally |
| Clarity Code communication lab, with Valerie | 30 to 210 minutes | 2 to 150 | Your venue |
Every format by room size is set out on conference and kickoff sessions, and keynote speakers on Speakers.
Can we book a keynote and a workshop for a company meeting of 1,000 people?
Yes. Jodi's keynote on leadership legacy becomes a workshop in the same session, for 8 to 1,000 people, in 60 to 180 minutes, in person or online. A companion talk, How Many Mondays Do You Have Left?, runs to the same length. Tell us the room and the minutes you have.
Is there an improv session that suits a sales kickoff?
Sammy's Leave Them Speechless is built for it: a high-energy, low-pressure improv experience for 10 to 100 people, 30 to 90 minutes long, designed to get colleagues connecting quickly. Sammy is based in San Francisco and travels nationwide, so the kickoff can be wherever your people gather.
What lightens a long conference day between heavy sessions?
A short, practical reset. Noreen's laughter wellness presentation, 30 to 90 minutes for 5 to 50, explains the science of laughter and leaves the room with techniques for stress and resilience; Tasha's restorative sound bath settles up to 100 people lying down. Both slot between plenaries.
Creative team building, from art games to rhythm
A US team day can be an afternoon of collaborative art games with a live DJ and a wine flight or mocktails, a body percussion session that turns a room into one rhythm, or movement games that get colleagues talking and listening. Each runs in person.
Team building company, nationwide We come to you: artists, musicians and movement facilitators who bring the materials, the music and the plan to your office or event space. Our team building agency shapes the afternoon around your headcount and goals, and our curators reply with tailored options shortly. Find out what our team building agency brings to your office.
The Art of Letting Go
Classic collaborative art games, a curated wine flight or mocktails and a live DJ, from a San Francisco artist and creative strategist.
With Michelle
Rhythm and Connection, in body percussion
Body percussion, stepping and rhythm that turn each person's beat into one sound, sharpening how a team listens and coordinates.
With Briana
Embodied communication, played as a team
Playful movement and group games that loosen how a team talks and listens, led by a movement and communication facilitator.
With Ginie
Weaving the team’s stories together
Colleagues bring fabric and keepsakes that mean something to them and weave them, story by story, into one shared piece.
With Femke
Team day formats and group sizes
| Format | Length | Group | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Art of Letting Go, with Michelle | 3 to 4 hours | 10 to 30 | Metros near an international airport |
| Brand Lab for founding teams, with Michelle | 3 to 4 hours | 3 to 30 | San Francisco Bay Area |
| Rhythm, Body and Voice, with Maria | 30 to 90 minutes | 6 to 50 | New York, and abroad |
| Intuitive collage and writing, with Kimberly | 90 to 120 minutes | 10 to 25 | Los Angeles, and across the US |
| Yes, And: The Art of Working Together, with Alejandra | 30 to 90 minutes | 5 to 15 | Los Angeles, and across the US |
| Custom floral arrangement design, with Sophia | 60 to 120 minutes | 10 to 20 | New York, or your venue |
See also corporate team building.
Can a team afternoon include a live DJ and drinks?
Yes. Michelle's creativity afternoon pairs classic collaborative art games with a live DJ and a curated wine flight or mocktails, so the drinks list includes everyone. It runs three to four hours for 10 to 30 people, in person, and travels to metros within an hour and a half of an international airport.
Is there a team activity for colleagues who say they are not creative?
Yes. Maria's drumming needs no musical background, Kimberly's collage asks for scissors and curiosity rather than skill, and Alejandra's improvisation games are built on play. Each is designed for mixed groups, and the facilitator sets a pace at which the whole room warms up together.
Resilience and burnout workshops for teams under pressure
Resilience workshops give teams practical tools for stress, overload and recovery: a practical session on taking feedback under pressure, an Ayurveda-based session on burnout, or a three-hour session on how strengths clash under pressure, with mindfulness formats for larger groups and labs that reset priorities.
Corporate wellness, rooted in Ayurveda
Movement and Ayurvedic practice for moving beyond burnout, from a guide with twenty-five years in luxury hospitality.
With Nandini
Teams Under Pressure
A stress coach shows teams how professional strengths start to work against each other under pressure, and how to turn that around.
With Armgard
Feedback resilience under pressure
How to take criticism and tough reviews without losing footing, so feedback sharpens the work instead of shaking the team.
With Consuelo
Play as a tool for uncertain times
Heidi uses creative exercises, story and play so a team under strain can step back from uncertainty and spot what is still possible.
With Heidi
Resilience formats and group sizes
| Format | Length | Group | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mellow Elephant mindfulness and meditation, with Billy | 45 to 120 minutes | 5 to 50 | New York, New Jersey and New England |
| Priority Clarity Lab, with Jim | 60 to 120 minutes | 5 to 20 | Southern California, or online |
| Leadership Reset, with Dionne, in English or Spanish | 60 to 90 minutes | 4 to 30 | In person |
| Stress, Anxiety and Burnout, with Maxine | 60 to 90 minutes | 7 to 15 | Your venue |
| Genesis workshop on nervous system regulation, with Omilana | 90 to 120 minutes | 5 to 100 | New York, and travels |
| Feedback resilience under pressure, with Consuelo | 90 minutes | 2 to 50 | Your venue, and travels to the US |
| Better decisions under pressure, with Sean | 45 minutes to 5 hours | 6 to 500 | Your venue, and travels to the US |
| Embodied Confidence, movement with Briana | 45 to 120 minutes | 10 to 40 | Your venue |
Sessions are practical and non-clinical, and sit beside the care your people already have. See corporate wellbeing workshops.
Which workshop helps a team that is close to burnout?
Start with how the team works. Jim's Priority Clarity Lab, 60 to 120 minutes for 5 to 20, resets what comes first; Dionne's Rest Is Productive, 60 to 90 minutes for up to 75, treats recovery as part of performance; and Nandini's session draws on Ayurveda for groups of 10 to 20.
Can a mindfulness session work in a high-stress workplace such as a public agency?
Yes. Billy, a certified professional-level mindfulness teacher, brings meditation to places people do not expect it, from offices and government agencies to police stations and athletic departments. His Mellow Elephant workshop runs 45 to 120 minutes for 5 to 50, around New York and New Jersey and further afield.
Corporate wellbeing, measured in energy and recovery
A restorative sound bath for up to 100 people, yoga and free movement for a smaller team, a session on healthier screen habits or a chef's table for mindful eating: each can be measured, as the Impact Index reads energy, focus and pressure before and after.
In-person corporate wellness company HR and benefits leaders choose us as their corporate wellness provider when they want sessions people show up for: practitioners on-site at each office, formats from a lunchtime stretch to a full afternoon of rest and recovery, and programs that run across every location you have. See what our corporate wellness provider service covers for US teams.
Restorative Sound Bath
Crystal singing bowls, chimes and a short guided meditation, lying down, from a Seattle practitioner with a decade in corporate leadership.
With Tasha
Yoga and free movement for the team
Yoga, breathing and free movement that build presence as a group, from a yoga therapist with twenty years on stage.
With Margarida
Tech-life balance, from scroll to focus
Research-based insight, practical tips and exercises that help a team change its screen habits and win back focus.
With Taíno
Tea, talk and a pause from perfectionism
Over tea, a Vancouver facilitator guides open dialogue, visualisation and shared stories that help a team ease perfectionism and celebrate its work.
With Lauren
Wellbeing formats, programs and the Impact Index
| Format | Length | Group | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restorative Sound Bath, with Tasha | 30 to 90 minutes | 1 to 100 | Seattle, and travels nationally |
| Holistic yoga and expressive movement, with Margarida | 30 to 240 minutes | 1 to 15 | Your venue, travels to the US |
| Foundations of Mindfulness Meditation, with Lori | 30 to 90 minutes | 8 to 100 | Orange County, and travels anywhere |
| Rhythmic Reset, live frame-drum meditation, with Maria | 20 to 60 minutes | 5 to 50 | In person |
| The Astonishingly Alive Vitality Program, with Jodi | Modular, set with you | 1 to 5,000 | Your location, or online |
| Strategic Planning and Engagement Program, with Julia | Multi-phase, set with you | 1 to 100 | Your location |
| Culinary masterclass in mindful eating, with Alexei | 90 to 360 minutes | 1 to 20 | A kitchen or your venue |
| Tech-life balance, with Taíno | 30 to 90 minutes | 8 to 10,000 | Your venue, or online |
The Impact Index gives each team a before-and-after read of energy, focus and pressure, with a short report and certificates. Sessions are practical and non-clinical. See corporate wellbeing workshops.
How is the result of a corporate wellbeing session measured?
The Impact Index reads each participant's energy, focus and pressure before and after the session, then returns a report on the team's change, with certificates for the team and for each person. Your people and culture lead gets a result to show the decision maker.
Can a wellbeing program run across the year for a large company?
Yes. Jodi's Astonishingly Alive Vitality Program is modular and scales from one person to 5,000, at your location or online, and in-person sessions such as Tasha's sound bath or Lori's mindfulness foundations can mark the moments in the year that matter most to your people.
More experiences in the United States
Games
Storytelling The Board Game Experience
With Megan
Somatic
Workshop 1: Embodied Team Connection
With Emanuele
Innovation
Perspective and Play: Tools for Innovative Teams
With Alex
Visual art
Sustainable Art Workshop
With Clemence
Yoga & movement
‘Stillness through Movement’, a practice in Chair Yoga & Meditation
With Rupali
Breathwork
Holistic Wellness-Themed Keynote Talk
With Jerry
Sound
Sound Bath: Nervous System Reset
With Alexis
Sport
Hollywood Sword Fighting Experience
With Jayme
Where Culturists work across the country
Culturists are based in New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago, Miami and Palm Springs, and many travel nationwide. One brief can cover offices in several states, each with a Culturist in the city or one who flies in for the day.
Los Angeles and Southern California
Los Angeles leaders work on presence with Melanie, whose executive presence framework has ten years of teaching behind it, and teams play their way to trust with Alejandra, a Colombian actress trained in improvisation and clowning. Gianantonio leads somatic breathwork from West Hollywood, Carla holds council circles for listening, Derricka leads sound meditation, and Kimberly runs collage and writing. Renée flies in from the Bay Area for circle singing, Orange County adds Leila's offsite openers and Jim's labs, and Palm Springs Jodi's keynotes.
Finding a Sense of Safety
A somatic breathwork micro-session from a Los Angeles coach with nearly three decades of contemplative practice.
With Gianantonio
Yes, And: the art of working together
Improvisation games that build trust and quick collaboration, from an actress with an MFA who has toured Mexico, Colombia and the US.
With Alejandra
Circle singing for a whole team
Collaborative vocal improvisation that gets a room listening and harmonising together, with no musical experience needed.
With Renée
Who runs an executive presence workshop for a leadership team in Los Angeles?
Melanie leads the Executive Presence Development Workshop for 5 to 100 people, in person in Greater Los Angeles or online, in 60 to 180 minutes. It covers how to command a room and make high-stakes decisions with clarity and conviction. Send the group size and date for tailored options. For every format the city offers, see corporate workshops in Los Angeles.
San Francisco and the Bay Area
The Bay Area bench spans the improv stage and the studio. Sammy runs applied improvisation for rooms of up to 100, Michelle pairs art games with a live DJ and runs a brand lab for founding teams, and Patrick speaks on conscious leadership. Denelle teaches yoga and mindfulness in the city, and Kathryn brings collage map-making to creative and health-minded teams. Culturists who travel nationwide add more: Joel turns listening into a team practice, and Erica coaches leaders through the story of a change.
Listening, practised as a scene
A former professional actor and improviser uses partner scenes to train colleagues to listen fully and respond in the moment.
With Joel
Telling the story of a change
The author of a careers framework licensed by global companies coaches leaders to explain a change so their teams understand it.
With Erica
What can a Bay Area founding or product team book for brand and creative work?
Michelle's Brand Lab, a studio-to-strategy workshop of three to four hours for 3 to 30 people, helps an emerging company shape its brand identity through hands-on making. Her Taste School works on visual literacy and creative judgment for founders and tech teams, at the same length.
Seattle and the Pacific Northwest
Seattle teams can book Tasha's restorative sound baths, from a practitioner with more than a decade in corporate leadership, and Annie's movement work on presence, collaboration and adaptability. North of the city in Snohomish, Angela, an artist and coach, helps teams set shared goals and the connections that carry them. Culturists who fly in add James's portrait painting and Kitu's gongs and bowls.
Portraits that start conversations
Colleagues paint one another’s portraits with a London artist, and the making opens conversations that meetings rarely reach.
With James
A gong bath for the whole floor
Gong, bowls and voice from a Barcelona sound healer while colleagues rest under blankets, for one team or several.
With Kitu
Miami and sessions in Spanish
In Miami, Amerly, a systemic facilitator with more than two decades of practice, works with leaders on the patterns behind behavior and relationships, in English and Spanish. Spanish-language sessions also run nationally: Dionne leads wellbeing for executives in Spanish, Alejandra brings improvisation, and Maria's drumming works in Spanish too. Culturists who fly in add Marina's flamenco and Gemma's creative reset.
Flamenco for a team, in under an hour
A flamenco dancer teaches the rhythm, posture and palmas of the form, so a team finds its duende together in under an hour.
With Marina
A creative reset at one long table
Grounding, then mark-making and texture work that move a busy mind towards clarity, led by a former retail leader who travels.
With Gemma
Can a leadership or wellbeing session be delivered in Spanish in the United States?
Yes. Amerly facilitates in English and Spanish from Miami, Dionne's Leadership Reset runs in English or Spanish for 4 to 30 people in 60 to 90 minutes, and Alejandra's improvisation and Maria's rhythm workshop are available in Spanish too. Share the language and the group in your brief.
Culturists who lead across the country
US teams work with people like these: a certified facilitator in Chicago who designs strategy sessions, a composer who plays ancient Nasca pan flutes, a fiber artist who maps creativity and health, a coach who teaches leadership through LEGO bricks and the ways horses lead, a storyteller from applied theater and a positive psychology practitioner in Los Angeles.
Julia
Strategic facilitator and Certified Professional Facilitator
Leads strategic planning and leadership retreats that build cultures where people connect, contribute and thrive.
Fred
Composer and sound facilitator
Fifteen years of immersive music and sound with natural soundscapes and traditional Andean instruments.
Kathryn
Writer, fiber artist and creative health researcher
Twenty years of practice and a research-based method of collage, storytelling and mapping for teams.
Lucy
Leadership coach, lecturer and researcher
An ICF-credentialed coach who brings LEGO Serious Play, Appreciative Inquiry and equine leadership into team sessions.
Colin
Storyteller and applied theater maker
Fifteen years of applied theater and storytelling, with clients from Adidas to Rand Merchant Bank.
Tanya
Positive psychology and mind-body practitioner
An MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and more than thirty-five years guiding mind-body practice.
Booking sessions anywhere in the United States
- Cities
- Culturists are based in New York, Los Angeles, Orange County, the Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago, Miami and Palm Springs, and many travel nationwide.
- Several offices
- One brief can cover teams in different states, each with its own Culturist or one who travels to every office.
- Languages
- English throughout, with Spanish from Amerly, Dionne, Alejandra, Denelle and Maria, and Italian, Norwegian and Swedish among the others.
- Group size
- From a table of four to a company meeting of 1,000.
- Your venue
- Your office, a hotel ballroom, a terrace or a retreat venue; facilitators work inside the agenda you already have.
Can one partner run sessions in several US cities on the same program?
Yes. Send one brief naming the cities, dates and headcounts, and tailored options follow quickly, drawing on Culturists in New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago and Miami. Leila and Tasha travel nationally, and Jim's and Melanie's sessions also run online for offices that cannot gather.
Do we have to send a brief, or can we choose a session ourselves?
Either works. Explore the portfolio across the country and book directly, or send a brief with your cities, group size and date and a curator returns tailored options quickly. Both routes reach the same Culturists, and the same team confirms the details.
Do facilitators work inside a hotel or conference venue we have already booked?
Yes. Culturists work inside the venue and agenda you already have, from a hotel ballroom to a meeting room at your office. Tell us the room, the timing and the minutes available, and the session is shaped around them before the day.
Send a brief for your US team
Tell us which cities, what the team needs, how many people and when, and options come back for every location. Any listed session can be booked outright too, wherever it runs.
Tailored options, quickly.