For organisations

From a leadership table to the whole company.

Companies, leadership teams, sales teams, alumni groups and associations. Tell us what you want people to come back with, and we'll design where to go, what happens there, and run every part of it.

From brief to programme

Every brief has a better idea in it.

Two example briefs, and what we'd build.

Their brief

From: CEO, leadership team of 10
Subject: Three days away to plan next year

“Our leadership team needs three days away to agree next year's plan. Somewhere that feels far away but is easy to reach. Not a hotel conference room.”

Our take

Ten people don't need a resort. They need a house. We'd take a whole lodge in the Punakha valley in Bhutan: no other guests, working sessions by the fire. Then we'd add what they didn't ask for: an evening with someone who has spent a career on how Bhutan measures progress, in a country that has developed its own way of thinking about progress beyond GDP. It's a sharper conversation about what your company measures than any offsite slide.

The programme

  • Fly into Paro, drive over the pass to Punakha
  • Day 1: arrive, riverside walk, welcome dinner
  • Day 2: two working sessions, then the evening conversation
  • Day 3: close the decisions, afternoon hike, farewell dinner
  • Facilitator optional
Example briefLeadership retreat · 10 people · Punakha, Bhutan

Signature programmes

Programmes with a point of view.

Designed by us, shaped around your team and your objective.

  • Tea bushes and shade trees across a working tea estate

    The Estate as a Case Study

    Valparai, India · 3 days · Leadership teams

    How a century-old tea estate navigates monsoons, labour, markets and uncertainty, and what that teaches about running anything through change.

    1. Estate at dawn
    2. Factory floor
    3. Manager's table
    4. Working sessions
    See the programme →
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, seen from below

    Kuala Lumpur: A Four-Night Incentive

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 4 nights · Sales teams and top performers, around 30 people

    A city that does spectacle well: skyline, speed, food and one night the group will talk about for a year.

    1. Skybridge
    2. Batu Caves
    3. Track day
    4. Hawker night
    5. Rooftop dinner
    See the programme →
  • A quiet entrance hall in Japan: woven wood panels, paper screens and a single pine

    Japan: The Culture of Precision

    Japan · 8 days · Executive and institutional cohorts

    What a culture of precision makes possible, and what it demands.

    1. Manufacturing
    2. Craft
    3. Robotics
    4. Supply chains
    5. Ageing
    6. Hospitality
    See the programme →
  • The Nairobi city skyline

    Africa: The Next Economic Frontier

    Kenya, Rwanda or Ghana · 10 days · Business-school and leadership cohorts

    How growth, capital, infrastructure and cities are reshaping three very different African economies.

    1. Agriculture
    2. Entrepreneurship
    3. Capital
    4. Infrastructure
    5. Cities
    See the programme →

Questions

For organisations: common questions

Can you design an offsite around a specific business objective?

Yes. That is where we start. Whether the aim is agreeing a plan, bringing a remote team together or rewarding the people who hit their numbers, the objective decides the programme, and the destination comes after that.

Can you plan for a remote or hybrid team?

Yes. We regularly bring together people who normally work apart, coordinating flights, trains and road transfers from many cities so everyone arrives in time for the first session. For teams meeting for the first time, we design the first day around getting people talking.

Can you handle a large group?

From a leadership team of ten around one table to a whole company or cohort. The planning scales with the group: larger programmes are organised into accommodation, movement, sessions, production, participant communication and on-site delivery, each with a clear owner. Where a brief needs staging, AV or production, we bring in specialists, and you still have one accountable lead, backed by the wider team.

Can you work with our venue or our travel desk?

Yes. If you've already chosen a venue, we can design and run the programme there. If your travel desk books flights, we work alongside them on timings and manifests. Our role can be as broad or as focused as the brief requires.

Do you arrange speakers, facilitators and team experiences?

Yes. We source and brief speakers and facilitators, or work with the people you already use, and build breakouts, team experiences, adventure and wellness into the days around what the gathering needs to achieve.

Can you design purpose-led or CSR programmes?

Yes. Some programmes start from a social objective rather than a business one: employee volunteering, CSR field visits, or time with the communities and organisations connected to an issue. We design them the same way, starting with what needs to happen on the ground. See our work in Bodh Gaya.

Do you only do offsites?

No. We also plan incentive trips, company gatherings and celebrations, alumni reunions and association trips, travel for conferences and events, and field programmes for leadership teams.

What happens after I send a brief, and how do you price it?

We get back to you with a few questions, then come back with a first idea: where, what happens and why, with itemised costs. Every programme is costed to the brief, so you can see exactly where the budget goes, and adjust it, before anything is confirmed.

Tell us what you're planning.

Share a few basics and we'll get back to you with ideas, options and costs. Or call us to start the conversation right away.

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