About Executive Oasis International

A Toronto Based Consulting Firm

We help organizations succeed even in the midst of turbulence!

Your Unique Challenges

Turbulence = The New Normal

From stock market and oil price fluctuations to hurricanes, tropical storms, and flooding, a number of economic upheavals and natural disasters have combined to create a rapidly changing and fiercely competitive business climate. The ripple effect has been an unprecedented rate of turbulence and change.

When organizations grapple with a lot of change, they have a tendency to become stressful environments and lose the spark of innovative that fueled their success in the first place. "Turf wars", the silo mentality and communication stoppages are not uncommon.

Charting Your Course

Executive Oasis International, a Toronto based consulting firm in operation since 1996, specializes in executive and team building retreats that feature powerful business simulations, incentive travel and corporate event planning. We will help you build team spirit and harness the creative energy of your team to resolve your SPECIFIC business issues and challenges.

With upbeat themes, reality based simulations and problem solving exercises we will help your team thrive in the midst of the turbulence that often accompanies accelerated change. You'll leave each session with SPECIFIC tools and strategies that your team can use on an on-going basis to chart your course and navigate your way through turbulence and change.

Oasis = A Place of Calm and Growth in the Midst of Turbulence

      Outline

• Your Unique Challenges
• Charting Your Course
• What is Unique About Us
• Inspiring Your Team

• Rewarding Your Team
• Our Global Network
• Media Coverage
• Meet Our President
• White Papers & Articles

Featured Destinations: Toronto, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Singapore, Malaysia, Jamaica

What is Unique
About our Approach

We'll devote between 1/3 and 1/2 of your team building session to your SPECIFIC business issues.

It starts before your team building retreat. To customize your experience, we will distribute participant profiles and learning surveys to give your team input into the content and approach for your executive retreat or team building simulation.

Your customized team building session will combine business facilitation, recreation and team challenges to introduce your team to tools and strategies that they can use to resolve business challenges on an on-going basis.

We'll help your team develop customized and targeted solutions to your SPECIFIC business challenges.

Many team building companies offer simulations and executive retreats that allocate an hour or less for a "debriefing session".

After your session, we will follow up with your team to determine if you require further support and assistance to implement the strategies that you have developed. If you do, we will provide follow-up consulting for your team or executive coaching.

We have designed and implemented customized solutions for organizations in a variety of industries including:

• Wireless Commmunications Firms
• Pharmaceuticals
• High Technology
• Oil and Gas
• Banking
• Airlines
• Transportation

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Inspiring Your Team

An Integrated Approach to
Team Building Retreats

Our expertise is in business facilitation. We bring you an integrated approach to team building that delivers MUCH more value than just "fun in the sun".

We have designed and facilitated executive retreats and team building sessions in stunning, upscale locations in Canada, Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, and Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, India). At each of our featured destination, we work with our local alliance partners to handle the transportation, logistics, recreation, and meals. This ensures that we execute each executive retreat, team building session or incentive trip flawlessly.

Rewarding Your Team

We'll Help You Celebrate Your Success

When your team has reached important milestones and, ultimately, succeeded in meeting it's goals, we'll help you celebrate and reward your team with luxury corporate events and incentive travel that they will be talking about for years. We can take you to Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, Malaysia, Singapore, or help you experience all the elements of an incentive closer to home.

Gain Access to Our Expanding Global Network

We have provided service in 11 countries and worked with organizations from 14 countries (Canada, USA, Jamaica, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Dominica). We have a global alliance network of organizations that work with us to execute client events and activities in specific regions including Asia/Pacific rim & the Middle East (including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman and, in 2009, Egypt).

We are expanding our global alliances. We welcome inquiries from potential alliance partners in Asia, Europe and the UK.

Where You May
Have Seen Us

Alltop: Three of our blogs are featured on Alltop.com

• Corporate Team Building Blog
• Corporate Team Building Blog
• Executive Oasis International - Virtual Oasis, a CVENT blog

LinkedIn: On LinkedIn our President is:

• Group Owner, International Team Building Network for Executives, members from over 30 countries
• Group Manager, Event Planning and Management Group, LinkedIn's largest and oldest group for event planners

Executive Oasis Internatinal has been profiled in a number of publications including:

• "Team Building 2.0", Global Forum, Drug Information Association, June, 2011
  
  
• "Team Building Primer", The Enterprise, Utah's Business Journal, SBH, Utah, May, 2011
  
  
• Executive Survivor - Jungle Retreats in MalaysiaIncentive Spotlight, MICE Now, China Economic Review, 2011 (In English & Mandarin)
  
  
• "7 Steps to Team Building Success", Global Forum, Drug Information Association, April, 2011
  
  
• Corporate Event Ideas to Deliver Expensive Contracts Canadian Business Review, September, 2010
  
  
• When hitting targets means hitting the beach – and a nail head Globe & Mail, May, 2010
  
  
• Executive Retreats Move Your Company in the Right Direction Smart Meetings Magazine, May, 2010
  
  
• Should Companies Cancel Incentive Travel During a Recession? Incentive Magazine, March, 2009
  
  
• During Tough Times, Smart Firms Retreat National Post Archive
  
  
• Canadian Institute of Management
  
  From Corporate Survival to Corporate Success: The Name of the New Economic Game – Part 1 April, 2009, Page 11
  
  
• Destination Malaysia, HRM Singapore
  
  
• Wall Street Journal (Asia Edition), April 2007
• When Your Worst Enemy is You Profit Magazine, March 2007
  
  
• Corporate Playgrounds MICE International
  
  
• Make work fun: Corporate retreats Canadian Business Magazine
  
  
• "All for One and One for All" Biz Bash To. Guide to Meetings September/October, 2006, Page 30
  
  
• How the Other Half Meets: Planning
  Special Events for Fortune 1000 Firms
  
  
• Corporate Retreats Event Solutions Magazine (.PDF File)
  
  
• Step Away From the Fish Eyes 10 Tips for Planning Retreats Abroad Web Extra, Event Solutions Magazine
  
  
• The Race is On: Team building exercises draw from reality TV for inspiration Contact Magazine, Canadian Professional Sales Association
• Profit Magazine's Essential Web Guide

Where You May
Have Heard Us

Anne Thornley-Brown, our owner, has been interviewed by various media outlets. Here are a few examples. If you missed them you can tune in:

Blogtalkradio, May, 2010:

Can you Travel, Build Your Team,
Boost Business Results & Have Fun?

CBC Radio 1's "The House", December, 2008

You can hear Anne around the 30:00 remark, right after Harper's comments about trust building:

How Team Building Can Help the House of Commons

Meet Our Founder
& President

Anne Thornley-Brown is the President and founder of Executive Oasis International. She has a solid track record as an executive consultant and executive team building specialist. Anne has worked with executives, managers and professionals in 11 countries (Canada, USA, Jamaica, United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Oman, Dominica, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Egypt. She has travelled to 23 countries and toured Asia 18 times to deliver sessions to over 2000 executives, managers, and professionals.

More About Anne Thornley-Brown