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Tap into the Benefits of Taking your Leadership & Team Training out of the Boardroom...

Latitude45's innovative 'Adventure-based Leadership Series' harnesses the benefits of adventure-based learning, empowering businesses to build impactful High-Performance Leadership & Team Cultures

Kristan Johnstone
09 April 2026

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In this age most businesses are likely to promote values which include the likes of 'Innovative', 'Dynamic', 'Agile', 'Driven', to promote the culture needed to stay competitive in today's landscape. It's all good, necessary talk, for sure.

However business and team leaders need to ensure they are backing this up across all aspects of the business - and not just in processes like reporting, communication & recruitment policy, but other aspects that include staff development, engagement and team building activities.

With that in mind, an increasing number are looking beyond traditional methods and are asking how can we inject an ‘X-Factor’ into our Leadership & Team Training Initiatives?

This is what we've found. Specialising in delivering adventurous and experiential team-building and customer events for clients, we've explored this with clients indepth. The result is the launch of an innovative Adventure-based Leadership Event Series in 2026, focusing on Building High-Performance Leadership & Team Cultures.

Looking at the benefits of this fresh approach, here’s a quick 5-point explanation of why we’ve created the Adventure-based Leadership Series, taking leadership development out of the boardroom…

  • Get out of the box – Lose the titles, constraints and inhibitions of the workplace, and have people show up as themselves - engaging naturally, enthusiastically and openly.
  • Cut to the chase - Leadership is more than semantics, so leadership training needs to be more than talking theory and hypotheticals. Adventure-based Leadership brings leadership fundamentals to life - making them real, relevant, and immediately applicable across any context.
  • Times have changed – Today’s (and tomorrow’s) leaders are looking for more. Investing in meaningful and rewarding experiences that accelerate their development will build a genuine connection between their mission and yours.
  • Walk the walk: If you talk about being ‘innovative’, ‘agile’, ‘dynamic’ and ‘driven’, then how you develop your leaders and teams needs to be too. Adventure-based Leadership doesn’t just talk about culture, it builds it.
  • The Best of Three Worlds: Development, Incentive & Team Building – Opportunities to reward your talent with impactful, and rewarding training experiences!

Bristol and the South West is known for its progressive and bold business sector, as well as being blessed with spectacular landscapes and iconic venues, making it the perfect setting for innovative initiatives such as this Series.

Mendip Activity Centre, Folly Farm, Bristol Harbourside and Ashton Court will play hosts to events in May, July, September & October, with places open to individual attendees and teams alike.

You can learn more and download the Event Pack by visiting our website - with big incentives for Business West Members who secure places by the end of April.

https://www.latitude-45.co.uk/adventure-based-conferences/

Any queries can be directed to kj@latitude-45.co.uk.

Adventure unlocks engagement. No gimmicks. No nonsense.