Corporate Challenge is Texas’ oldest and most experienced firm in its field. Corporate Challenge has been developing teams, team leaders, and team members at work sites since 1985. Our senior staff members each have spent more than ten years developing their skills in experiential education.

Director Joel Cryer, a graduate of the University of Texas, is a recognized authority in the field. His career spans twenty years and includes successful management development programs for major corporations, state agencies, universities, public schools, hospitals, and other institutions. His most recent international experiences have included consulting with Industrias Savoy and Empresas Polar in Caracas, Venezuela, Innovative Business Development in Stockholm, Sweden, Moscow State University and the Academy of Cosmonautics and Space Research in Moscow, Russia. Joel has served as a Para-Rescue technician with the U.S. Air Force in the Southeast Asia, as a member of the NASA/Apollo Recovery Team, and an instructor with Outward Bound and six other adventure-based programs.

During the past twenty-five years, he has trekked, boated, and climbed in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Joel is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, the American Alpine Club, the Vertical Section of the National Speleological Society, the Ropes Course Builders Network (Association of Challenge Course Technology), and the Association for Experiential Education. He has served on the AEE Select Committee of the National Task Force on Accreditation and Standards, and is co-chair of the 1994 AEE International Conference. Corporate Challenge is a member of the AEE International Safety Network.