WE ARE EMPOWER
Empower Leadership delivers engaging, exciting, and memorable experiences inspiring team cohesion and personal development.
Empower Founder, Joe DeRing, and Empower Leadership Owner, Dan Jaskot have created a unique and special brand of leadership development and team building experiences for groups by leveraging Joe’s 8 years of leadership experience as a United States Army Infantry Officer and Dan’s 20 plus years of experience in traditional, alternative, and adventure education.
Team Building and Leadership Development with Empower includes:
- Age/group appropriate activities, initiatives, and challenges (ground-based)
- Hands-on learning and personal coaching geared towards your group’s desired outcomes
- Engaging, compassionate, and energizing Empower Leadership Facilitators who will lead your group throughout
Each Empower Leadership experience seeks to provide groups with fun and engaging opportunities to strengthen bonds, challenge the status quo, inspire creativity, and produce better than ever results.

OUR LOCATIONS
Empower Leadership’s Team Building & Leadership Development experiences can be delivered in-person or online. We can bring our Mobile Leadership Team directly to your facility or we can host your group at one of our Adventure Park Partners. Empower Leadership Adventure Park Partners include:
- The Adventure Park at Storrs (Storrs, CT)
- The Adventure Park at The Discovery Museum (Bridgeport, CT)
- TreeTrails Adventures Mystic (Mystic, CT)
- The Adventure Park at Long Island (Wheatley Heights, NY)
- The Adventure Park at Heritage Museums & Gardens (Sandwich, MA)
- Empower Adventures Tampa Bay (Oldsmar, FL)
OUR CLIENTS
WHY ADVENTURE?
Adventures get you out of your comfort zone.
After several years of jumping out of airplanes and helicopters and climbing through some of the world’s most remote mountain ranges as a member of the military, our founder, Joe DeRing, realized that it was these adventures that helped him find new inspiration and purpose in his life. It was in overcoming his fears and accomplishing those missions that changed the way he viewed hardship and difficulty. He learned that his ability to overcome challenge, adversity and fear is the most important skill a human can possess.
When Joe returned home in 2008 he set out to teach others this important lesson. Adventure can inspire and motivate individuals to step outside of their comfort zones into their “stretch zone” and that this is where greatness lives. This is where you may find a renewed sense of purpose, direction and motivation for living your best life.
Taking on adventure as a team is a great way to improve the way individuals and groups lead themselves. In the end, adventuring can provide moments of triumph, victory and accomplishment that results in an unstoppable force of momentum towards further achievement and confidence in oneself to overcome any obstacle.
Come adventure with Empower. You will be amazed at what you can become.