CORPORATE EVENTS & TEAM BUILDING
Wine country, twenty minutes from your office.
Leadership development on a working Pacific-coast stable: ocean, horses and open ground, without spending a travel day to get there.
A half day, not a travel day
We are roughly 20 minutes from SoMa, the Financial District and Mission Bay, and about 25 from South San Francisco. Every comparable equine venue is in Sonoma, Napa or Santa Cruz, an hour each way plus a charter coach before anyone touches a horse.
Ground-based. No riding required.
The entire leadership curriculum happens on the ground and needs no horse experience. Riding on the Pacific is available as a layer for teams who want it, in waves of up to eight.
A real working stable
Not a conference room with a theme. A working coastal barn, a herd that lives here, trails to the beach, and a team that has taught horsemanship for decades.
Your team has run out of things to learn in a conference room.
A horse does not care about your title, your deck or your tenure. It responds to what you are actually doing: your attention, your intent, the gap between what you say and how you carry it. That feedback lands in seconds, in front of the people you work with, and it is very hard to argue with.
Participants in equine-assisted leadership programmes consistently report gains in self-awareness, communication, trust and emotional regulation. We will be straight with you about the evidence: the published research is early, small-scale and largely self-reported, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a number we cannot stand behind. What we will do instead is measure your session: a pre and post read on team psychological safety and communication, and a manager check-in at 30 and 90 days, so you leave with something defensible rather than a nice memory.
Packages
All-inclusive. Facility, facilitation, horses, safety staffing and catering coordination are in the number. There is no mobilisation fee bolted on afterwards.
Most booked
Half-Day Leadership Intensive
$6,500
4 hours · up to 20 participants · from $325 per person
- Facilitated groundwork, herd observation and arena challenges
- Structured debrief tying behaviour back to the workplace
- Ranch-house lunch and coffee service
- Pre-event scoping call and written next-steps summary
Full experience
Full-Day Immersion & Cowboy Cookout
$12,500
7 hours · up to 25 participants · from $500 per person
- Everything in the half day, plus a second and third arena challenge
- Beach ride waves on the Pacific for those who want them
- Five-course Cowboy Cookout to close the day
- Team behaviour profile and facilitated action planning
For the C-suite
Executive Intensive
$8,500
Full day · 6 to 10 leaders · from $850 per person
- Built for intact leadership teams, not a department offsite
- Strategic clarity and decision-making under pressure
- One beach-ride wave: your whole team rides together
- Individual debriefs and a 90-day follow-up session
Two-day offsite
Stay by the Sea
$1,295 per person · 10 to 16 participants · two days, one night
Coastal studio accommodation on the bluff, all meals, both programme days, an evening Cowboy Cookout and a sunrise session before the fog lifts. For leadership teams that need more than a day and do not want to lose two more to airports.
How the day actually runs
A typical half day
0:00 Arrival and framing. Coffee, safety briefing, and the one question your team is here to answer.
0:30 Herd observation. No task. You watch, and the group starts noticing what it notices.
1:00 Individual challenge. One person, one horse, the group watching. Then the debrief that does the real work.
2:15 Small-group stations. Teams of four to six rotate through arena challenges, running concurrently so nobody stands idle.
3:15 Integration and commitments. What we saw, what it maps to on Monday, and written next steps before anyone leaves.
Add to any package
Cowboy Cookout: five-course western dinner served at the ranch.
$95 per person
Additional participants beyond the package cap, subject to station capacity.
$275 per person
Extra beach-ride wave: one more group of up to 8 down to the Pacific.
$650
Professional photography by Sea & Saddle Studios, edited gallery delivered.
$850
Measurement package: pre and post instrument plus 30 and 90-day manager check-ins.
$2,500
Private facility buyout: exclusive use, no other guests on site.
$3,500
The questions your planner will ask
If something is not here, ask us. We would rather answer it now than in a proposal.
No. The leadership curriculum is delivered entirely on the ground, with no riding and no prior horse experience needed. Riding is an optional add-on layer, not the programme. Beach rides run in waves of up to 8 riders, so a larger team rotates through while the rest of the group continues the facilitated work.
Every session runs three participation tiers: full contact, adjacent role (timekeeper, recorder, course setup), and observer-analyst. The observer seat is often the most valuable one in the room, and we brief it that way rather than treating it as an accommodation. You tell us on the pre-event form who needs which tier; nobody is ever asked to explain why in front of colleagues. Please flag allergies at booking so we can position roles upwind and brief the team.
Coastal fog and wind are part of the site, and the programme is built for it. We publish a single named weather source and decide by 4pm the day before. If we cancel, you are not charged and we rebook at no fee. Lightning within 8 miles moves the group indoors without horses.
Yes. We carry commercial general liability with an equine liability endorsement and professional liability, and we issue an ACORD certificate naming your organisation as additional insured, with primary and non-contributory wording and waiver of subrogation on request. Our vendor packet (W-9, COI, participant waiver template, safety and emergency plan, accessibility statement and equine welfare policy) is ready to send the day you ask, so procurement onboarding does not add weeks to your timeline.
Up to 25 for a full day. We hold a maximum of 8 participants per facilitator at any horse station and scale by adding concurrent stations, never by increasing density. That cap protects both the quality of the work and the horses. Groups over 25 run across two days.
Four to six weeks is comfortable; September and October are our strongest weather window and fill first. Post-reorg or post-merger sessions can often be turned around in two to three weeks. We hold a date for 10 business days against a signed proposal.
Neither. This is leadership and team development that incorporates horses. We do not provide behavioural health treatment, we do not diagnose, and we keep a clear referral protocol if anything clinical surfaces. What horses provide is immediate, unfiltered behavioural feedback on how you are actually showing up, which is exactly what a boardroom does not give you.
Yes to both. Many teams anchor an existing Bay Area offsite with a half day here because the travel cost is already sunk. We also deliver a modified ground-based programme at your venue or an offsite property, subject to a suitable site.
Come walk the site before you commit.
We host planners and chiefs of staff for a 45-minute walkthrough most weekday mornings. Bring your run-of-show questions.
Request a proposal
Tell us the team and the problem. You will get a written proposal with a fixed price, a capacity, a rain plan and our insurance certificate, usually within two business days. Prefer to talk first? Book 15 minutes on Google Meet with our founder, Zachary.