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CEO Gravel Challenge

What if, instead of telling CEOs how to perform sustainably, we let them experience it for themselves?

With the CEO Gravel Challenge, Golazo Energy brings together 20 CEOs and C-level leaders in a unique journey where sport becomes a laboratory for performance, leadership and teamwork.

Just like an athlete needs to train, recover, deal with pressure and rely on their team to perform at their best, the same principles apply to today’s leaders.

From CEO to Corporate Athlete

Throughout the journey, participants step outside their daily business environment and work together towards one ambitious goal: completing a challenging gravel ride.

Along the way, they experience how movement, nutrition, training, recovery and mental resilience influence performance. At the same time, they discover how principles from sport can be translated into the way they work and lead their organisations.

No traditional team building.
No competition to find the fittest CEO.

Just a real-life experience of what it means to perform sustainably as a Corporate Athlete

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The Programme

The journey combines different experiences designed to prepare participants both physically and mentally:

  • Kick-off & performance check – understanding your personal starting point and setting individual goals.
  • Training & coaching – training together and learning how to manage effort, load and recovery.
  • Fuel & Reset – discovering how nutrition, sleep, breathing and recovery influence performance.
  • Team rides – experiencing leadership, collaboration and trust when the going gets tough.
  • The Challenge – bringing it all together during the final gravel ride.
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Coached by Ward Vande Capelle

Throughout the journey, participants are guided by Ward Vande Capelle, coach and performance expert. He translates principles from elite sport into the reality of leaders and professionals.

His role is to help every participant grow from their own starting point while working towards the same shared goal.

With Sven Nys as Ambassador

The CEO Gravel Challenge is supported by Sven Nys, who knows better than most what it takes to perform consistently over the long term.

Talent and hard work alone are not enough. It takes discipline, making the right choices, dealing with setbacks and continuously evolving.

That mindset is at the heart of the CEO Gravel Challenge.

From the Bike to the Boardroom

The real value of the Challenge doesn’t stop at the finish line.

The insights participants gain about energy, focus, recovery, leadership and collaboration can be taken straight back into their organisations.

Because sustainable performance isn’t about working harder.
It’s about learning to perform better.

Ready to take on the challenge?

20 CEOs. One journey. One gravel challenge.

Step out of the boardroom, train like an athlete and discover what sport can teach you about leadership, performance and teamwork.

Join the CEO Gravel Challenge