About Executive Oasis International

A Toronto Based Consulting Firm

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

We help organizations succeed even during turbulent times!

Your Unique Challenges

Turbulence = The New Normal

From stock market fluctuations and skyrocketing oil prices to tsunamis and hurricanes and SARS, 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

What is Unique
About our Approach

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

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.

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

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

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

Anne Thornley-Brown, our owner, was interviewed on CBC Radio 1's "The House" on the Saturday, December 6, 2008 broadcast.

If you missed it, you can listen to the podcast. 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 Resolve its Crisis

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

• During Tough Times, Smart Firms Retreat
• 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
• 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)
• Web Extra, Event Solutions Magazine
• Contact Magazine, Canadian Professional Sales Association
• Profit Magazine's Essential Web Guide

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 10 countries (Canada, USA, Jamaica, United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Oman, Dominica, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and Thailand). She has travelled to 22 countries and toured Asia 16 times to deliver sessions to over 2000 executives, managers, and professionals.

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