All Cooking Team Building Programs

🍽️ All Cooking Team Building Programs
Explore Every Culinary Experience CEO Chef Has to Offer
Whether you're looking to build trust, ignite creativity, compete for bragging rights, or give back to the community, CEO Chef offers a full menu of hands-on cooking programs designed for every team, every goal, and every group size.
Explore Every Culinary Experience CEO Chef Has to Offer
Whether you're looking to build trust, ignite creativity, compete for bragging rights, or give back to the community, CEO Chef offers a full menu of hands-on cooking programs designed for every team, every goal, and every group size.
🔹 1. Corporate Culinary Challenge® (Collaborative)
Create a gourmet buffet with your team—no recipes, no kitchen, just pure collaboration. This signature program strengthens communication, trust, and leadership through shared culinary execution.
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Create a gourmet buffet with your team—no recipes, no kitchen, just pure collaboration. This signature program strengthens communication, trust, and leadership through shared culinary execution.
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🔹 2. Ultimate Cooking Championship® (Competitive)
Bring the heat in our Iron Chef-style cooking competition! Teams battle under pressure in a high-energy, fast-paced culinary showdown that emphasizes strategy, leadership, and creativity.
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Bring the heat in our Iron Chef-style cooking competition! Teams battle under pressure in a high-energy, fast-paced culinary showdown that emphasizes strategy, leadership, and creativity.
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🔹 3. Team Tapas™ (Short Format Program)
Short on time? This 90-minute program delivers powerful team-building through bite-sized creativity. Ideal for conferences, networking events, or leadership retreats with tight schedules.
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Short on time? This 90-minute program delivers powerful team-building through bite-sized creativity. Ideal for conferences, networking events, or leadership retreats with tight schedules.
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🧩 More Specialized Programs
🔹 4. Feed the Need™ (Philanthropic Team Building)Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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🔹 5. Academic Professional Development Day
Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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🔹 6. Team Cuisine™ (The Original Cooking Team Building)
Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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🔹 7. Large Group Cooking Team Building
Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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🔹 8. Just Desserts™ (Sweets Team Building)Give back while building up your team. This heart-centered program combines culinary collaboration with purpose, as teams prepare meals for local shelters or community organizations.
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🔹 9. Farmer’s Market Challenge
Teams explore a local farmer’s market with a mission: shop for ingredients and return to create a fresh, inventive dish using what they’ve sourced. It’s culinary competition meets creativity in motion.
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Teams explore a local farmer’s market with a mission: shop for ingredients and return to create a fresh, inventive dish using what they’ve sourced. It’s culinary competition meets creativity in motion.
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🔹 10. Mystery Basket Cooking Challenge
Inspired by “Chopped,” teams receive surprise ingredients and must work together under pressure to create a cohesive, delicious dish. A true test of innovation and teamwork.
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Inspired by “Chopped,” teams receive surprise ingredients and must work together under pressure to create a cohesive, delicious dish. A true test of innovation and teamwork.
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🎤 Speaking & Keynote Presentations
Looking for a dynamic speaker who can energize your next leadership conference, sales kickoff, or executive retreat?
Jim Connolly, founder of CEO Chef, delivers high-impact keynotes grounded in his proprietary TAC™ Framework--Team Associative Conditioning—and the transformative principles of Cooking Team Building 2.0.
With a blend of humor, real-world restaurant stories, and over two decades of culture-shaping experience, Jim inspires organizations to build stronger teams, elevate leadership, and unlock performance through connection and culinary creativity.
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Jim Connolly, founder of CEO Chef, delivers high-impact keynotes grounded in his proprietary TAC™ Framework--Team Associative Conditioning—and the transformative principles of Cooking Team Building 2.0.
With a blend of humor, real-world restaurant stories, and over two decades of culture-shaping experience, Jim inspires organizations to build stronger teams, elevate leadership, and unlock performance through connection and culinary creativity.
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🚀 Want Help Choosing the Right Program?
🚀 Want Help Choosing the Right Program?
Are you unsure which experience fits your goals, group size, or event type? We’ll help you pick the perfect program or design one just for you.
📞 Contact us or 📅 Schedule a call today.
Are you unsure which experience fits your goals, group size, or event type? We’ll help you pick the perfect program or design one just for you.
📞 Contact us or 📅 Schedule a call today.