Custom Team Offsites

We design and facilitate custom offsites that help teams connect and move faster together. Every session is built from the ground up around your team’s real context, goals, and people.

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Offsites That Change How Teams Work

Your team’s time together is rare and expensive. Used well, it can reset how a team works. Used poorly, it’s a nice day out but changes nothing. Most offsites fall into the second category. The difference between an offsite that sticks and one that fades is how it’s designed and who’s in the room.

Our Approach

Five Steps From Inquiry to Impact

Every offsite we run follows a disciplined process, because the work that happens around the day is just as important as the day itself.

Step 1

Facilitator Match

We pair your team with a facilitator who fits your culture, industry background, communication style, and energy.

Step 2

Discovery & Interviews

Your facilitator speaks directly with key stakeholders before a single agenda item is written, surfacing the real priorities, tensions, and unspoken context.

Step 3

Agenda Architecture

We iterate with your point of contact to design the right focus, goals, frameworks, and session flow, balancing what must be accomplished with space for connection.

Step 4

Flexible Facilitation

We facilitate with empathy and agility. We keep the group on track toward its goals but allow for organic conversations to flow.

Step 5

Debrief & Integration

After the offsite, we synthesize team takeaways, review feedback, and help your leaders embed what was discussed into how the team actually works moving forward.

“Our Elevate coach brought a level of professional skills and people acumen that far exceeded our expectations. His expert facilitation created an environment where our participants could go deep with one another, resulting in the kind of peer learning we hoped for but weren’t sure was possible.”

Portfolio Company CEO, Spero Ventures
What Sets Us Apart

An Extension of Your Team

We operate as a true partner to your team. We take ownership of content design, delivery, and follow-through.

Facilitator-Client Match

We’re thoughtful about who runs your session. We ensure that your expert facilitator is right for your culture and for who’s in the room.

Science-Backed Frameworks

Every activity and discussion structure is rooted in research, from psychology to organizational behavior, so outcomes are meaningful and actionable. Our facilitators are also trained in DiSC, Five Behaviors of an Effective Team, Insights Discovery, and more.

Agile in the Room

Great facilitation means holding structure loosely. Each of our facilitators is also an experienced executive coach who knows when to pull conversations back and when to let them flow.

Take a Broader View

Pull through what was discussed in your offsite into your team’s day to day. Elevate offers 1:1 coaching at all levels, group coaching, workshops, and more, so offsites can be part of a more comprehensive development journey.

Offsite Design

From a focused half-day to a multi-day immersion

We scope every engagement to what your team actually needs. Whether you have four hours or four days, four people or forty, we'll design a session that makes the most of your time together.

Format Options

Half-Day

Focused sessions for a specific challenge or decision. Can be done virtually or in person.

Full-Day

Comprehensive alignment and team-building. In person only.

Multi-Day

Deep dives for strategic planning, culture building, deep development work, or major transitions. In person only.

Modalities

Elevate pulls from a deep well of experience, content and research to bring in the most creative-yet-relevant building blocks for your offsite.

  • Training modules 
  • Leader interviews or panel discussions
  • Customized case study exercises
  • Facilitated discussion and brainstorming
  • AI role-play
  • And more!

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What Sets Us Apart

What Teams Leave With

Outcomes that former clients have achieved with their offsites

Alignment on what matters most

Prioritized goals, shared language, and clear “why” behind decisions.

Stronger trust and relationships

Deeper mutual understanding and psychological safety to collaborate faster.

Resolved tensions and blockers

Surfaced friction addressed in a structured, facilitated environment.

Team norms and working agreements

Codified expectations that are revisited, not forgotten.

What Our Clients Have to Say

“Elevate’s facilitator was excellent. She struck a balance between focused execution and giving space to people to participate and be heard. This was a great use of time and I highly recommend.”

Business Tech Team Leader, Anthropic

“I’ve participated in a lot of workshops over the years and appreciated that we focused on real issues we’re facing so we walked away with actionable solutions. I never felt like my time was being wasted.”

Executive Team Member, BioMarin

“Elevate’s facilitator was clear, engaging, and created a safe environment for open discussion, which really helped reinforce the concepts around psychological safety and trust. The use of real-world examples and interactive elements like the DISC activities made the content relatable and easy to apply. What worked particularly well was the pacing—it allowed time for reflection and questions without feeling rushed.”

Manager, Stockbridge

“Our facilitator was very matter of fact and made this session exceptional. I've done a few of these sessions over the years and this was the best by a mile. Kept is simple and impactful.”

GTM Recruiting Team Member, Anthropic

Meet Our Expert Offsite Facilitators

Cara-Lyn Giovanniello

Cara-Lyn Giovanniello, an ICF certified PCC and CPCC with 18+ years of experience, has empowered thousands of leaders at companies like AWS and Google through her unique approach to performance and emotional intelligence coaching. Her impact spans from creating Square's award-winning Integral Lead Program to serving on boards that advance leadership development for underrepresented groups.

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Ashley Punzalan

Ashley Punzalan draws from nearly two decades at Google and Alphabet, where she specialized in organizational development and change management, to coach executives through complex transformations and leadership challenges. Combining her Master's in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern with extensive coaching certifications, she applies a systems-approach lens to help leaders and teams drive lasting behavioral change and organizational results.

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Julia Markish

Julia Markish, a former Bain consultant and tech startup executive with degrees from Cornell and Stanford, combines deep organizational expertise to help leaders navigate critical business transitions. Drawing from over two decades of experience coaching companies from Roche to Ford, she helps executives forge stronger connections and design thriving systems by turning confusion into clarity through empathetic, goal-oriented approaches.

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Landis Coutzoukis

Landis Coutzoukis, an ICF-certified coach with 15 years of experience inside global tech companies, partners with executives to develop resilient leaders, aligned teams, and organizations that can thrive through change. Through candor, clarity, and compassion, she helps executives build organizations where high performance and strong culture reinforce each other.

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Stacey Levy

Stacey Levy brings over 25 years of experience leading high-growth teams at Facebook and Google to her role as an executive coach, where she's trained over 10,000 managers and driven transformative culture shifts in global organizations. As a PCC-certified coach and current Executive Sales Coach at Google, she combines her track record of 300% YoY sales growth with multiple coaching certifications to help leaders create conditions for growth, equity, and belonging.

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Lesley Powell

Lesley Powell specializes in team and leadership development, focusing on empowering leaders to build trust, drive strategy, and navigate conflict in complex environments.

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