Expeditions FOR EXPLORATION


Professional and personal development brings new ideas and intelligence to your staff, fueling the expansion of their creativity and wells from which to draw their ideas.


At PGAV Destinations, a program called PGAV GO! annually allots each staff


member $1,500 to apply towards self-directed professional development. To-date PGAV Destinations leadership has committed more than a quarter million dollars to fund growth and learning opportunities. Tese funds have empowered our team


to travel the world, achieve professional certification, visit astounding destinations, and much more outside of regular business hours. One PGAV zoo designer traveled the Galapagos Islands to observe the evolutionary process first-hand, while a


leading aquarium designer traveled to Patagonia to visit Osbert, her Magellanic penguin she has sponsored for five years. Other designers have leveraged the opportunity to visit new conferences, while some have gotten hands-on


training in crafts that directly relate to our project work, from making wine or cheese by hand, to learning Latin or professional videography.


“We traveled halfway around the world to find it was both bigger and smaller than we could have anticipated. We had a desire to travel, the opportunity to do so, and a supporting PGAV family to help us get there.” – Teague Peak, Architectural Designer and India Traveler


Upon completion, our staff will often share their new insights and experiences with our entire team at all-staff meetings. You can visit our blog to read about four designers’ architectural tour of India, creating and sponsoring scholarships at our alma maters, attending cutting-edge conferences, and more PGAV GO! experiences.


“Leisure time also activates what’s called the “default mode network“ in your brain that signals your mind to look at problems in a new way,” says State Street’s Allison Quirk. “Te novelty of trying something new can reshape your approach to a


problem and help you come at things in a new way.” After endless hours of kickball in the snow, collaborating to curate our own inner-office art gallery, and


traveling as a pack to cheer on our Cardinals, PGAV has no qualms with letting loose and playing together.


Refreshed and renewed, our staff then bring insights from these experiences back into their own designs and project strategies,


CREATING BETTER DESTINATIONS FOR OUR CLIENTS AND THEIR GUESTS.


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