Inspire a World-Class Team Culture

Leadership, innovation, and peak performance through the power of human connection.

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Businesses can learn a lot about successful leadership, teamwork, and high performance by implementing practices from the world of adventure racing.

Both combine individuals with different strengths. Aiming for a goal that’s impossible solo. Collaborating on ever-changing tasks with limited time and resources. Persevering through challenges, changes, setbacks, and regulations.

Robyn Benincasa’s world champion adventure racing teams dominated the sport, not by being the best athletes but by being the best teammates.

They outperformed the competition for 15 years with different team members training in different countries. This wasn’t one winning team; they had a winning culture. The one Robyn shares to inspire thousands of leaders and teammates to next-level performance and success in business and life.

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If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.

- AFRICAN PROVERB

TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

What People Are Saying

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“It was amazing to hear how much [this leadership team] learned and how they can actually apply it to their roles. Thank you for really taking the time to learn about us and making the talk so relevant.”

–Adi Moreh, HR Manager

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“Allstate leaders might not be climbing mountains or bicycling through a rainforest but we are competing every day to take care of our customers and strengthen communities. Your stories remind us that no matter what challenge we face, we can overcome it by working together.”

–Thomas J. Wilson, Chairman & CEO

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Robyn Benincasa is an award-winning speaker on leadership, team building, and peak performance.

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World Class Teamwork Isn’t a Nice-to-Have

It’s How You Consistently Win

Robyn’s racing teams became world champions by developing a unique operating system of connection, collaboration, and shared commitment. Her approach transforms how businesses perform. For over two decades, organizations have borrowed her playbook to drive revenue growth, navigate mergers, and turn market pressures into opportunities. 

As a former field-sales rep in pharmaceutical and hospital supply sales, her keynotes on the exponential power of teamwork deliver more than short-term motivation. They show leaders how to build high-performing teams that break down silos, accelerate innovation, and achieve sustained success. When everyone operates as an outstanding team player, leaders can focus on growing the business instead of managing it. The result? Organizations that cross important finish lines…together.

Trusted for 20+ Years

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Energize Your Culture for Peak Performance

Whether you’re managing change, navigating figurative whitewater or targeting “impossible” goals, leaders and teams who’ve plugged into Robyn’s team-building culture have discovered they can:

  • “Morale has improved 100%,” at InterWest Insurance.

  • A sales team at Indivior, a global pharmaceuticals company, improved from 17th to 1st nationally.

  • Putting the mission ahead of titles and tenure helped one leader at Boston Scientific successfully address the challenge of managing teams with varying industry experience, ranging from “one month to 30 years.”

  • Helped teams with low morale find “an alternative way of thinking, getting things done and working as a team,” at Washington Prime Group.

  • “It’s been over a year since we had that meeting with you [at Northrop Grumann]. People still talk about it as the best team-building meeting we’ve ever held.”

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Featured Keynotes

on Leadership, Team Building, Sustained Peak Performance, and Organizational Culture

The best part about Robyn’s keynotes? They’re not about Robyn! You’ll be seeing and feeling how extraordinary leaders and teammates implement winning teamwork strategies and decisions in high-pressure moments. Even better? Attendees leave Robyn’s keynotes excited about embracing big challenges. They want to LIVE the thrill of victory that only comes from tackling incredible challenges together.

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T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K.

The 8 Essential Elements of a World-Class Team Culture

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WIN AS ONE

Achieving Breakthrough Performance Through Collaboration, Creativity and a Culture of One!

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INSPIRING GREATNESS THROUGH G.R.I.T

Creating The Passion and Perseverance To Pursue The Impossible

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WHY WINNERS WIN

The Game-Changing Mindset for Next-level Success

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ABOUT

For decades, team builder Robyn Benincasa has been competing, performing and winning at the highest levels of sport and business thanks to the power of world class teamwork. Robyn is an award-winning keynote speaker on leadership and team culture, a 20+ year veteran San Diego firefighter, world champion adventure racer, New York Times best-selling author, and founder of The Project Athena Foundation, for which she was named a CNN Hero.

How Winning Works

8 Essential Leadership Lessons From The Toughest Teams on Earth

Sample Robyn’s Ideas for FREE

Download this 17-page guide to implement Robyn’s principles of team building, leadership and adversity management, or as a refresher after she speaks to your organization.