New Orleans Team Building Activities & Corporate Events
Popular Team Building Activities in NOLA
While we can deliver any of our professional development, SmartHunts, or team building activities in New Orleans, here’s a quick list of our 10 most popular programs:
Bike Build Donation® has been enjoyed for many years by groups large and small. This top selling bike building charity event continues to resonate with participants as they recall the joy of receiving their first bike.
As seen on the popular TV game show, and adapted for team play, your group will participate in rounds of fast-paced tabletop challenges. The competition heats up as one-minute games are practiced and scored using commonplace items like pencils, plastic cups and a deck of cards. Teams will cheer and have a blast as they vie to be named A Minute 2 Win It! Champions!
Unleash your team's inner explorer with City Smarthunts®, the ultimate tech-driven scavenger hunt! Work together while exploring with the most advanced team building scavenger hunt on the market. Ready for an unforgettable team-building experience?
Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation is a fun charity team building program where your group will design, construct and play a mini golf course using canned and boxed food items. Working in teams, each hole has a special theme and rules, unique to that hole. After the course has been built, an entertaining tournament ensues with scoring and fun competition. Once completed, the course will be deconstructed and the food donated to a predetermined food bank or similar organization.
Speed Networking is a fast-paced, conversation-driven experience designed to spark new connections, enhance team chemistry, and get your group communicating across roles and departments. Ideal for both internal team building and multi-company events, this interactive format blends playful competition with purposeful discussion in a lively, rotating setup.
Learning to play music can have a very powerful and positive effect on young people. With Build-a-Guitar®, corporate groups have the opportunity to build and donate guitars to young people. As the name suggests, teams are tasked to build high-quality guitars from custom designed kits. The finished guitars are then donated to teens through schools and other youth organizations.
Go for the gold with Team Olympics, a high-energy program that combines athletic-inspired team challenges with spirited collaboration and friendly competition. Whether hosted indoors or outdoors, this program is a surefire way to ignite energy, camaraderie, and lasting team pride.
Unleash your team's potential with an Amazing Chase SmartHunt®! After a fun icebreaker, teams armed with iPads tackle interactive missions, solve puzzles, and complete photo/video challenges for points. Navigate Road Blocks and Detours to maximize your score. Real-time communication and a live scoreboard amp up the excitement. Get ready for an unforgettable adventure with a highlight video finale!
Momentum is an inventive team building event where each sub-team will be tasked with designing and building a Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction machine to accomplish a simple task. Teams must collaborate and strategize together to not only create a successful contraption but also to out-design other teams and ultimately be declared the Momentum champions!
The BEST Way to explore New Orleans, LA
Plan a SmartHunt®! These top-rated corporate scavenger hunts are delivered using our proprietary SmartHunts® App technology, available only at Best Corporate Events. SmartHunts® are a unique combination of sightseeing, adventure, team building challenges, and gamification FUN!
Why New Orleans, LA For Your Next Corporate Event
Get ready for your next corporate event in New Orleans, LA! New Orleans is known for its vibrant nightlife, festive live music scene, and spicy, Creole cuisine. Annual celebrations and festivals, most notable being Mardi Gras, are a popular draw for leisure and business tourism alike. Hotels in the city offer 22,000 guest rooms in and around downtown. Due to the large venue space available, the city can accommodate groups of any size.
Meeting planners have an array of exhibit spaces to choose from including the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the French Quarter Hotel, to the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. New Orleans offers endless unique venue possibilities and attracts some of the largest conventions and events in the world.
Your group can explore the city with one of our City SmartHunts®. Unique scavenger hunts utilizing Apple iPads we provide to help navigate teams around the city. Visit the New Orleans Arts District home to dozens of art galleries and museums. Experience the historic French Quarter, home to restaurants, shops, bars, and jazz clubs. Your group will enjoy soaking up the art, architecture, and music during their New Orleans team building.
Whether you’re in town for a meeting, conference, or corporate retreat, your group will love to participate in a Culinary competition. Teams compete in a cooking contest, with our Fiesta Fun or Tapas and Sangria programs. These team building activities allow groups to sample signature Cajun and Creole classics cooked by your team!
While hospitality is the primary focus in New Orleans, the city offers many ways for your group to forge deeper connections and build lasting relationships. Best Corporate Events offers over 50 highly effective programs sure to keep your team engaged, communicating, and bonding during your stay in New Orleans.
Not able to gather in person? Our Virtual Team Building and Virtual Training programs can provide your group with a fulfilling and engaging experience remotely – anytime, anywhere, worldwide!
Charitable Organizations Helped by Our Corporate Events in New Orleans
BEST clients participating in team building events in New Orleans have helped a wide range of local and national charities and nonprofits over the years, including:
American Cancer Society
Boys & Girls Club Southeast Louisiana
Boys Town Louisiana
Camille Amadeo
CASA New Orleans
Dryades YMCA
Encore Academy
Kingsley House
Make Music NOLA
One Heart NOLA
Raintree Family Services
Second Harvest Food Bank
The Roots of Music
Waldo Burton Boys Home
YMCA of Greater New Orleans
Past New Orleans Corporate Events Clients
Over the past two-plus decades, we’ve been honored to deliver team building events in New Orleans for a wide range of organizations, from midsized enterprises to global brands, either headquartered in NOLA, with local offices, or visiting. We’d be thrilled to add your organization to this expanding list:
Top Venues for Corporate Events in New Orleans
Best Corporate Events has facilitated fun, productive team building programs in a wide range of venues across New Orleans. Below are a few – but we can deliver programs ANYWHERE!
JW Marriott New Orleans
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
Hyatt Centric French Quarter
Hotel Monteleone
Ace Hotel
Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel
The Roosevelt New Orleans
Le Pavilion Hotel
InterContinental New Orleans
Hilton New Orleans Airport
Windsor Court Hotel
Steamboat Natchez
The Fillmore New Orleans
Roosevelt Hotel Blue Room
NOPSI Hotel
Mardi Gras World
Harrah’s New Orleans
Crowne Plaza New Orleans French Quarter
How it Works
Using a proven model for improving team productivity, motivation, and collaboration through innovative team events, Best Corporate Events strengthens teams by delivering exceptional team building, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and professional development training programs that help corporate, academic, association, and government teams build trust and respect while enhancing leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
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BEST Needs Assessment
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BEST Design
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BEST Facilitators & Specialists
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Why BEST
Top Customer Rating
We are North America's largest in-person team building and virtual event company and maintain the highest verified Customer TrustScore in the industry, with a 5-Star rating and over 1,700 reviews.
Best Customer Service
In addition to our quick response, in-depth needs assessment, and detailed proposals, we’re the only company that provides clients and destination management companies (DMCs) with comprehensive online portals that track all details of their events, from key dates and contacts to local weather updates.
The Broadest Range of Programs
BEST offers more than 120 different programs, including team building activities, CSR, professional development, game shows, and scavenger hunts. We lead the industry in developing forward-thinking programs like Earth, Wind & Solar which combines team building with sustainability, as well as offering the largest number of original, trademarked programs including Bike Build Donation, Build-A-Guitar, Build-A-Wheelchair, Competition to Collaboration, plus our Amazing Chase and City SmartHunts.
Unmatched Commitment to CSR
We offer more than 20 different charitable team building programs and deliver hundreds of programs every year that create items for donation to local and national charities for the benefit of overseas soldiers, schools, unhoused people, children, Alzheimer’s patients, and more. We are the only team building company with a department devoted to connecting and coordinating with nonprofits and charitable organizations, plus a warehouse filled with inventory for our CSR programs, so we can reliably deliver these materials anywhere in the U.S., on time.
Deepest Expertise
We literally wrote the book on team building, Your Roadmap to Successful Corporate Team Building, and then updated and expanded it to help navigate specific common business challenges. And we followed that up with eBooks on Charitable Corporate Team Building and Generational Communication Differences in the Workplace. Our experts are sought-after speakers, authors, and subject matter experts in team building, professional development, business leadership, and employee engagement.
Widest Geographic Coverage
We can deliver in-person events anywhere in the U.S. with no added travel costs, with experience in more than 130 cities nationwide, as well as virtual programs anywhere in the world.
Greatest Scalability
BEST has a proven track record of delivering very large events, including the world’s biggest bike build. Our expert facilitators and event techology enable us to successfully deliver programs with hundreds to thousands of participants without sacrificing quality or engagement.
What people are saying
We love the Big Easy! Best Corporate Events offers the best in team building events in New Orleans and have been rewarded with a 5-Star Rating and great reviews. You’ll find over 1,000 client comments and videos on our website assuring you have found one great company to deliver corporate team events for your group.
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Whether you’re planning a large-scale conference or an intimate executive event, we’d love to partner with you to achieve your goals. Contact or chat with us online, call us at (800) 849-8326, or email us to get a quote or answer any questions you may have. Your next team building event deserves the BEST.