A Team That Travels Thinks Differently

Custom impact expeditions for companies ready to align their team culture with their environmental and social values. Real partners, measurable outcomes, and no performative shortcuts.

Why Somos Impact Travel for Corporate Teams

Most corporate team experiences are designed to be comfortable. Ours are designed to be meaningful. There is a difference, and your team will feel it.

Somos Impact Travel builds custom expeditions for companies with environmental or impact-oriented cultures. We connect your team directly with grassroots organizations doing long-term conservation and community development work across Latin America.

Working alongside conservation leaders in a remote field environment surfaces leadership, builds trust, and strengthens cohesion.

The work is real, our partners are local experts, and the outcomes are measurable. Somos handles every logistical detail from the moment your team lands to the moment they depart. 

The Business Case

Research shows that employees who participate in their company’s purpose-driven programs are more satisfied, more loyal, and more engaged at work.

  • According to Benevity, 79% of employees who participate in company volunteer programs report higher overall job satisfaction compared to 55% of those who do not.
  • A separate survey found that 87% of employees say a strong CSR program influences their decision to stay with a company.
  • The SSRN study on CSR and employee retention, drawing on U.S. Census administrative data, found a direct and significant impact on the separation rate of CSR-conscious employees, with values alignment functioning as a meaningful job benefit.

Employees who share your company’s values stay longer when they can see those values in action.

A Somos expedition puts your values into action. Your team spends a week living them alongside the people who have built conservation programs from the ground up. 

Group of people at historic arch in Antigua Guatemala

What Your Team Will Bring Home

The people your team works alongside in the field are some of the most effective problem solvers you will encounter anywhere. Their solutions are simple, low-cost, and outside the frame of reference of anyone trained in a corporate environment.

Employees show up differently when they know their company puts its values into action. What else comes home with them?

  • Perspective. Watching resource constraints solved with ingenuity resets how your team approaches problems back at the office.
  • Bonding. Working hard together far outside your comfort zone creates shared memory that lasts a lifetime.
  • Generosity. Before the expedition begins, your team has the option to fundraise for the partner organizations they will work with, using tools like GiveButter to raise awareness and contributions in their communities. 

 

What’s Included in a Somos Corporate Expedition

Real Partnership Work

Hands-on participation in community-led conservation, reforestation, or social impact projects. The work is physical, documented, and directly tied to your CSR objectives.

Turnkey Logistics

All ground transportation, accommodation, meals as specified, bilingual guides, and 24/7 in-country support. Your team shows up. We handle the rest.

Evening Reflection and Debrief Structure

Facilitated sessions each evening to connect the day's fieldwork to your company's values and team culture. This is where the cohesion compounds.

Measurable Impact Documentation

Trees planted, project hours logged, communities reached, and partner organization summaries provided for CSR reporting and internal communications.

Authentic Content for Stakeholder Communications

Real moments, real partners, real work. The content your team generates on this expedition is worth more than anything a photographer on a staged retreat could produce.

Pre-Expedition and Post-Expedition Resources

Briefing materials, partner organization background, and post-trip frameworks to bring the experience back into your workplace culture.

Plan Your trip

Book a call with our team to begin planning your next School Impact Expedition.

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Sample 9-Day Guatemala Itinerary

Day 1 – Arrival & team dinner in Antigua
Team arrives in Antigua, Guatemala's colonial capital. Welcome orientation covering the partner organizations, the region, and the week ahead. Team dinner and first night in a boutique Antigua hotel.
Day 2 – Iximche to Lake Atitlan
Morning visit to Iximche, a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site and living cultural landmark. Context for the land rights and cultural resilience themes the team will encounter throughout the week. Afternoon transfer to Lake Atitlan and settle into Bambu Guest House.
Day 3 – Permaculture Principles and Wellkind Guatemala Introduction
Morning introduction to permaculture and regenerative agriculture systems with Wellkind Guatemala. Teams begin hands-on participation in soil restoration and agroforestry work alongside indigenous farmers. Evening debrief: what does sustainable land stewardship look like, and what does your company's environmental commitment look like in practice?
Day 4 – Wellkind Guatemala Full Partnership Day
Full day working alongside Wellkind Guatemala's community team on active conservation and reforestation projects. Physical, documented, measurable fieldwork. The day most corporate groups name as the defining moment of the expedition. Evening reflection session.
Day 5 – Quixaya Indigenous Farming Community
Visit to Quixaya, a Tz'utujil Maya village and working agricultural community. Direct conversation with indigenous farmers on land stewardship, food systems, and community governance. This is not a cultural tour. It is a peer-level exchange between professionals with different kinds of expertise.
Day 6 – Paddling and San Juan La Laguna
Morning paddleboarding or kayaking, afternoon visit to San Juan La Laguna, home to a thriving artisan and natural pigment cooperative. Discussion with cooperative leaders on economic resilience and community-led enterprise.
Day 7 – Volcano hike and closing workshop
Morning hike of Volcan San Pedro or Volcan Indian Nose. Afternoon closing workshop: what did we learn, what do we carry back, and how does this expedition connect to the values we say we live by? This session is the bridge between the field and the office.
Day 8 – Return to Antigua and Pacaya Volcano Climb
Transfer back to Antigua. Optional afternoon climb of Pacaya, an active volcano accessible to all fitness levels. Final team dinner.
Day 9 – Departure
Transfer to Guatemala City international airport and departure.

Corporate expeditions can also be built around Peru’s Amazon conservation programs, Belize marine conservation, or dual-country itineraries. Contact us to discuss what fits your team.

FAQ for Corporate & CSR TeamS

A retreat is designed around your team's comfort. This expedition is designed around your team's growth. The difference is the work. When your team spends three days doing real conservation fieldwork alongside community leaders who have built these programs from the ground up, the team development is not a workshop exercise. It is a byproduct of doing something that actually matters. That distinction shows up in the outcomes.

Documented, specific, reportable outcomes: trees planted, project hours completed, partner organizations supported, communities reached. Somos provides a post-expedition impact summary that your communications or sustainability team can use directly. The authentic content your team creates on the ground, whether photos, journal entries, or video, is also yours to use for internal and external stakeholder communications.

Yes, and we recommend it. During the discovery call, we walk through your company's values and identify where they connect to the work of our partner organizations. The evening debrief sessions throughout the expedition are structured around those connections. Recent clients have used this framework to align the expedition directly with their published ESG commitments and employee development goals.

Corporate expeditions typically run with 8 to 20 participants. Larger groups can be accommodated with advance planning. We can also structure programs for leadership teams only, all-hands groups, or specific departments. Group composition and dynamics are something we discuss in the planning call.

We recommend a minimum of 60 days for a standard expedition. For larger groups, custom destinations, or programs that include Peru or multi-country itineraries, 90 to 120 days gives us the best flexibility for partner coordination and logistics. That said, contact us regardless of your timeline and we will tell you honestly what is possible.

Yes. Somos has operated in Guatemala and across Latin America for 10+ years with 1,000+ travelers and zero safety incidents. All programs include professional bilingual guides certified in CPR and first aid, vetted transportation partners, comprehensive medical kits, 24/7 in-country emergency support, and detailed emergency action plans for every location we operate in. Full safety documentation is available for your legal or risk management team on request.

Corporate expedition pricing is custom based on group size, destination, duration, and scope. We do not publish a rate card because every program is built specifically for the group. Contact us and we will provide a full proposal after a 30-minute discovery call with Shad.

Next Steps

Every Somos expedition builds trust, strengthens cohesion, and supports long-term impact across Guatemala and Latin America. Let us design something that reflects what your company stands for.