Client stories
Real teams, real results
Eight events, told the way they happened: who called, what they needed, what we ran and what came of it. Every story names the program, the city and the headcount.
- Programs Delivered
- 10,000+
- Participants
- 1 Million+
- Years in Business
- 16+
- Group Size
- 20–6,000
Featured story
Lowe's built 1,048 bikes for Nevada kids with 3,500 managers in one afternoon
The largest Bike Build Donation ever run, on the floor of Lowe's national sales meeting at the Sands Expo.
- 3,500
- Managers building
- 1,048
- Bikes donated
- 180
- BEST staff on the floor
“It was a great day for the 3,500 Lowe's managers that participated in the Bike Build Donation event on February 7, 2018, at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. They set the World Record by building and donating 1,048 bikes, helmets, and locks to deserving children throughout the state of Nevada.”
The stories
What happened when they called
Lowe's built 1,048 bikes for Nevada kids with 3,500 managers in one afternoon
CharityLowe's · Las Vegas, NV
The largest Bike Build Donation ever run, on the floor of Lowe's national sales meeting at the Sands Expo.
Merck packed 400 care packages for St. Jude in one evening of its global summit
CharityMerck
A custom care-package build that became a standing BEST program for children's hospitals.
Ciena's 1,200-person kickoff ran five charity builds at once in Las Vegas
ConferenceCiena · Las Vegas, NV
Sensory kits, toys, wheelchairs, bears and a ton of Thanksgiving food, built side by side in one afternoon.
Shell built 2,000 bikes for Houston firefighters to give away, across three Days of Giving
CharityShell Oil · Houston, TX
Bike Build Donation stripped to the build, run in waves at two venues at once, three years running.
ePlus turned a week of sales sessions into a 300-person game show at the Hilton Chicago
ConferenceePlus Technology · Chicago, IL
Best Corporate Feud with the questions written by the client, so the closing session doubled as the week's exam.
250 people built one bridge, then walked across it, at the Boston Park Plaza
CollaborationA national communications company · Boston, MA
Bridge to the Future, with each section standing for one of the company's pillars.
An aerospace company put 160 new hires through a ropes course, then made it annual
OnboardingAn aerospace company · Outdoor ropes course
A full day outdoors, built as a ladder from the ground to forty feet up.
Twelve teams, three offices, one puzzle: how a Fortune 500 company found its communication gap
CollaborationA Fortune 500 company · Boston, MA and two satellite offices
A sixty-second build that showed headquarters and the satellite offices exactly where information stopped flowing.
Why it works
The research behind the results
The stories above are ours. The numbers below are not, and they explain why an afternoon in a room together keeps paying off.
- 79%
- of professionals find in-person meetings more effective for team building than virtual ones
- Source: Harvard Business Review
- 90%
- say in-person time such as off-site workshops is critical to long-term working relationships
- Source: American Express GBT and Harvard Business Review
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