Corporate Team Building Activities in Boston, MA

Boston is one of the country’s busiest meeting cities, and it shows in what we run here. A large share of our Boston events are booked by meeting planners and destination management companies bringing a national conference into the Seaport or Back Bay hotels, with the team building slotted between general sessions. The rest come from the companies headquartered downtown, in the Financial District, and along the waterfront, who want an afternoon out of the office without leaving the city.

The most booked program in Boston is City SmartHunt®. Teams of eight to ten leave the hotel with iPads we provide and work through photo, video, and trivia challenges along the Freedom Trail, through Faneuil Hall and Boston Common, and out to the waterfront, with every submission scored live. It runs 2 to 2.5 hours and ends back where it started for the reveal. Amazing Chase SmartHunt® is the race-style version for a group that wants to move faster.

Charitable builds are a close second. In Bike Build Donation®, teams of ten earn parts through short challenges, assemble and safety-check the bikes, and hand them to children from a local organization, who are often in the ballroom for the finish. It runs 1.5 to 2 hours and fits a conference schedule, which is why so many Boston groups choose it. The bikes and care packages from these events have gone to organizations across the city, from Action for Boston Community Development to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.

Boston winters push events indoors from December through March, and the game shows carry that season. Best Corporate Feud runs 1 to 1.5 hours with teams of six to ten and needs only a ballroom and a screen; A Minute 2 Win It! keeps a group of any size moving for 1.5 to 2 hours. January kickoffs and December holiday gatherings book the same rooms, so the earlier you hold the date the better.

For a meeting with a message, Bridge to the Future has teams build sections of a cardboard bridge that stand for the company’s priorities, then join them into one span and walk the whole group across it. One national communications company did exactly that with 250 people at the Boston Park Plaza; the story is below. Igniting Team Performance® and Competition to Collaboration® are the training-led options when the goal is how the team works, with a facilitated discussion after each challenge.

Where we host depends on the neighborhood. In the Seaport, groups use the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, the Westin Boston Seaport, the Seaport Hotel, and the InterContinental on the waterfront. In Back Bay it is The Westin Copley Place, the Boston Marriott Copley Place, the Fairmont Copley Plaza, and the Boston Park Plaza. The Boston Marriott Long Wharf sits between the North End and the harbor, the Liberty Hotel is the Beacon Hill choice, and for a group that wants something other than a ballroom, TD Garden and Fenway Park both host corporate events.

Boston is also the hub for the rest of Greater Boston. Cambridge is across the river, the Route 128 companies in Waltham, Burlington, and Woburn are 20 to 30 minutes out, and the same facilitators run all of it. Logan Airport is ten minutes from the Seaport hotels, which is a large part of why planners keep bringing conferences here.