About Corporate Teams

Corporate Teams was founded by Liz Hafer in 1995 after a successful career as a Sales Executive with Digital Equipment Corporation. Liz’s passion to pursue team and leadership training evolved from her experiences at Digital where she engaged in many programs that offered an experiential delivery.   Liz observed that the training model of experiential delivery at that time had two major limitations:  1) team challenges were often single event programs that limited the opportunity for a number of leaders to emerge; 2) team challenges were actually individual challenges with the team providing passive verbal support to team members.  Liz’s desire was to build upon this training model and to take it to the next level of team development. 

Liz wanted to create a high impact program that put teams under pressure in a fast-paced collaborative process providing the opportunity to move between diverse challenges.  Teams would be required to analyze, develop and deploy effective and efficient solutions while under the pressure of competition and time.  Multiple challenges would provide teams the opportunity to experience ‘Leadershifting’ as individual team members shared in the leadership role.  After all, this is what teams experience in the daily corporate environment.

To meet this challenge, Corporate Teams developed The Adventure in Team Leadership model and provides customized programming to teams across the U.S.  Corporate Teams uses a suite of profile assessments from Team Management Systems (TMS) that highlight both team and individual behaviors.  Many profile instruments used today do not distinguish between personal and work behaviors.  Although personal behavior profiles provide insight into individual preferences, research shows that our roles at work influence our behaviors.  How we prefer to work is often very different than our personal behavior preferences.  TMS measures work preferences providing insight to team behavior and identifying ‘gap areas’ within a team environment. 

Liz completed her Masters in International Management at the University of Denver and uses her expertise to work with Global Teams across the world.  Liz spent 12 years on the faculty at the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business and the University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business teaching Marketing with a concentration in International Marketing and Marketing Strategy.

Liz focuses her efforts on working with corporations and brings together a team of resources to deliver customized Team and Leadership programming along with Global Communications for cross-cultural teams.