An Offsite Your Team Talks About in Q4
Chris Sund is a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator for team offsites, leadership retreats, and team building events. Most offsites produce a nice lunch and a forgotten flip chart. Chris’s sessions produce an artifact: a written team standard your people author together — and actually follow when they’re back at their desks.
Trust Falls Don’t Fix Accountability Problems
Teams don’t underperform because they haven’t bonded — they underperform because roles blur, accountability flows one direction, and nobody agreed on what “good” looks like. Chris’s Your Team Is Capable of More session, drawn from building #3 Inc. Regionals companies, works those real problems: the team defines its standard, names the behaviors behind it, and builds peer accountability that doesn’t depend on the boss being in the room. It’s team building that survives contact with Monday.
- A written team standard — created by the team, in the room, that day
- Peer accountability structures that outlast the offsite glow
- Role clarity: who owns what, and what “done well” means
- Honest-conversation frameworks for the tensions everyone avoids
- A 30-day follow-through plan so the offsite compounds instead of fades
Offsite Formats
Half-Day Workshop
The full team standard build — the most popular offsite format, 3–4 hours of real work.
Keynote + Working Session
A morning keynote to align the room, an afternoon session to put it on paper.
Leadership Team Retreat
For executive and management teams — the standard-setting session for the people who set everyone else’s.
Kickoff Energizer
A 60–90 minute keynote to open your offsite with alignment before you dive into strategy.
Who Books Chris for Offsites
Related pages: Your Team Is Capable of More · Corporate Culture Speaker · Company Event Speaker
What Offsite Planners Ask
How is this different from a team-building activity vendor?
Activities build memories; this builds an operating agreement. The session is facilitated working time on your team’s real dynamics — with energy and stories, but pointed at a deliverable your team uses for the next year.
What size team works best?
The workshop format is strongest from 8 to 60 people. Larger groups run keynote-plus-breakouts; intact leadership teams of 6–12 get the deepest version.
Can this handle a team with real tension?
Yes — that’s usually why Chris gets the call. The frameworks surface friction productively: no ambushes, no forced vulnerability theater, just structured honesty about how the team works.
Does Chris travel to our venue?
Anywhere — offsite venues, headquarters, or retreat locations nationwide. Nebraska and Midwest teams save on travel.
Make This Offsite the One That Changed How You Work
Tell Chris about your team, what’s working, and what isn’t. You’ll get a straight answer on the right format.
Response within one business day