Small Business Awards 2023 | 15 March 2026 | 15 also develop leadership skills and help their community at the same time. It’s a win-win-win!” Across both its Build-A-Bike programme and its other community-focused team events, The Leaders Institute has published more than 1,200 case studies and success stories, which are available to view here. Exploring just some of these, Liberty Bank recently celebrated its 200th birthday, and marked the occasion by donating 200 children to the children of the Native American Mohegan Tribe. Similarly, the fans, Ice Girls, and even the mascot of NHL team the Dallas Stars recently built 200 bikes for kids in the local schools. “These are a couple of the big ones, but most of our clients are 20-50-person teams who just want a break from the normal business meeting to race through a team treasure hunt or to build teamwork into their normal business meeting.” Outside of these activities, The Leaders Institute is excited to have developed a system for training and certifying ‘Master Team Building Facilitators’, with the goal here being to create a standard certification for all facilitators. This will help add capacity for smaller organisations in the field of team building and improve the quality of delivery for larger ones. As this shows, training others is a big part of what this team do, with Doug himself having trained hundreds of friends who now serve as friendly competition. Nevertheless, the industry remains full of people who are manipulating SEO to appear as those they are big players (more on this can be found here). It takes a real company to reach the top of the lists detailing the top team-building companies, and with The Leaders Institute® frequently topping these, its team have positioned themselves as fitting recipients of the title of Best Corporate Team Building Specialists 2026 in this feature. More of the company’s team-building experience examples can be found at the link below. Contact: Doug Staneart Company: The Leaders Institute® Web Address: https://www.leadersinstitute.com/ For more than 25 years, The Leaders Institute® has been revolutionising team building, taking a concept that has long been associated with forced, awkward socialising and introducing a blend of real teamwork and a community focus. Clearly this has paid off, with over 90% of participants reporting that their expectations were exceeded and the overall satisfaction rate of the company sitting at more than 99%. Thus, The Leaders Institute is today setting the standard for great service in the world of team building. Before this team came along in 2005, a team activity involved everyone being treated to dinner or taken to a ball game. This all changed when Doug and co. delivered their inaugural Build-A-Bike® programme, starting an entire industry in the process. Recounting this, Doug explained: “For the first time, companies could experience an interactive game based on working together as a team to solve challenges.” He continued: “As they accomplished the fun challenges, they earned bike parts. So even if one of the team members didn’t actually turn a wrench to build the bike, they still knew their contribution was important.” Impressively, this was just the beginning, as just when the last groups were finishing up building their bikes, a group of children from an inner-city kids club came running in to receive their first new bicycles. This was the icing on the cake for these teams, who had not only developed real business skills and had a blast doing it, but also had a real, measurable impact on their local communities, which they were able to see first-hand. In the years since, more than $10m worth of bicycles have been given to global children’s charities. Commenting on this tremendous success, Doug told us: “The best part about the charity team-building industry is that the companies we work with are going to spend money to entertain their team anyway. But if they invest in a charity team activity, not only do they get a fantastic, shared experience for their team, they Boasting a presence in all 50 US states and more than a dozen countries worldwide, The Leaders Institute® specialises in charity team-building activities for its clients. With its team having been recognised as the Best Corporate Team Building Specialists 2026 in this programme, a feat underpinned by them working with more than 400 companies in the Fortune 500 and countless independent business, we caught up CEO Doug Staneart for more on what makes this one of the top team-building companies. Rewarding Corporate Team-Building Activities for Groups of Any Size
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