The world’s leading companies follow the bees
Bee Downtown installs and maintains beehives on corporate campuses across the southeast while simultaneously providing year-round employee engagement and leadership development programming to many of America’s leading corporations.
Grow with the Bee Team!
When hives are installed on a corporate campus, employees become instantly curious.
To satisfy that curiosity, Bee Downtown offers year-round programming for employees to learn from and experience the hives. From Beekeeping Classes (earn your MBeeA!), to Hive Tours, to Honey Tastings, to the Annual Honey Extraction Festival, these shared experiences draw employees closer to each other and their employer.
Corporate Hive Program
Our Corporate Hive Program engages your workforce while simultaneously supporting sustinable urban agriculture.
BDT Leadership Institute
Our BDT Leadership Institute combines biomimicry with methods that bring leadership lessons from the hive to your workplace.
Buzz-worthy Reviews!
“I work hard everyday with my head down trying to produce results. This was an opportunity to step back and experience how AT&T is giving back to the environment.”
“I loved the biomimetic analogies between business and the bees. Everyone having their own role and the entire hive working toward a shared goal.”
“The inherent ‘we’ vs ‘I’ mentality is incredible and shows the value of true teamwork.”
OUR BEE DOWNTOWN BEE-LIEF
At Bee Downtown, we believe by embracing diversity and nurturing inclusion, we can cultivate a more vibrant, innovative, equitable, and sustainable future together.
Leigh-Kathryn Bonner
Leadership Through the Eyes of a Beekeeper
A Forbes 30 under 30 Listmaker, apiarist Leigh-Kathryn Bonner is the 25-year old founder and CEO of Bee Downtown. As a fourth generation beekeeper, she and her “buzzing” startup are setting the standard for corporate sustainability and employee engagement by installing and maintaining beehives on the campuses of many of the United State’s largest and most well known companies. Leigh-Kathryn shares how the micro actions of bees point toward ways humans can interact with far sweeter outcomes in both a personal and business context.
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A GIFT FROM THE BEES DURING COVID-19
THE HIVE
Our Bee team is sharing something sweet to add joy to your family life and guidance in your work life during these challenging times.
THE HIVE is our virtual world, filled with beehive tours, honey recipes, family scavenger hunts, nature-focused leader development, and much more.
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