One VAULT

A private owner-to-owner room for better business decisions.

Invitation only, for owners of $5M-plus businesses from Auckland to Cape Reinga. One gathering a month.

Request an invitation How the room works
Dawn over Whangarei Harbour with Mount Manaia on the skyline
$5M+Core membership by turnover
$3M+Invited guests
16 to 24People in the room
4:00 to 6:00pmStarts and finishes on time
MonthlyAlternating Albany and Whangarei

The owner story is the spark. The peer conversation is the product.

Every gathering opens with one owner telling the honest version of a real decision, then moves into the part people actually come for.

The Owner’s Table

Each person says who they are, what is on their mind, and where they would value perspective. The table then picks one issue and gives it enough attention to produce clarity, rather than skimming across everyone’s.

  • What is the real decision here?
  • Has anyone dealt with something similar?
  • What did you learn the hard way?
  • What is the next practical step?

TABLES OF 6 TO 8  /  40 MINUTES

Hot Seat

One owner puts a live issue in front of the group. Questions first, advice second. They leave with clarity and a next action, not a pile of opinions.

ONE OWNER  /  BY ARRANGEMENT

Vault 10

A higher-scale conversation for $10M-plus owners: governance, capital, acquisitions, succession, and building a business that is less dependent on the owner.

$10M+ TURNOVER  /  SELECTED GATHERINGS

A classic yacht on Whangarei Harbour beneath Mount Manaia

Two hours, and you know exactly what happens in them.

4:00pmArrivalRefreshments and informal conversation
4:15pmWelcomePurpose and the room standard, restated every time
4:20pmFeatured owner storyOne real decision, 15 to 20 minutes. What worked, what did not, what they would do differently
4:40pmQuestionsFacilitated, not a panel
4:50pmOwner’s Table, Hot Seat or Vault 10The main event
5:30pmTable reflectionsThe themes worth carrying out of the room
5:45pmOne action eachEveryone leaves with something specific to do
5:55pmCloseWhere and when we meet next
6:00pmFinishOn time, every time

Owners have full calendars. Once a month, in the late afternoon, finishing when we said we would.

One VAULT

Confidentiality is what makes the honest version possible.

Everyone who walks in signs up to the same room standard, hosts included. It is short, it is plain, and it is enforced.

  • What is said in the room stays in the room

    Numbers, staff matters, customers, margins, personal challenges, decisions still being worked through.

  • No recording

    No audio, video, screenshots or photography without the explicit consent of the hosts and everyone captured.

  • No public attribution

    Take the idea and use it as your own thinking. Do not quote, identify or point back at the person who said it.

  • No selling, pitching or recruiting

    No prospecting, no approaching another member’s staff, customers or suppliers. The hosts follow the same rule.

  • Conflicts declared before the gathering

    Commercial relationships, live disputes or significant competitive overlap. We handle the table allocation from there.

  • Respectful challenge

    Challenge the decision, the idea or the approach. Candid is welcome. Careless is not.

Turnover is the door. The quality of contribution is the currency.

A large business does not automatically make someone a good fit for the room. What you bring to it matters just as much as what you run.

  • You own or lead your business. Nobody sits in for you.
  • Turnover of $5M or more for core membership, $3M or more to be invited as a guest.
  • You bring a real issue, not a polished update.
  • You contribute generously and you keep what you hear to yourself.
  • Direct competitors are never seated at the same table.

Two hosts, and neither of us sells in the room.

We curate the membership, facilitate the tables and carry responsibility for the quality of the conversation. We follow up only where a need has been raised and permission given.

Warwick Taylor

Managing Director, The Alternative Board Northland

Facilitates owner advisory boards across Northland. Brings the discipline that turns a good conversation into a better business.

Andrew Fergus

Director, IT Live Northland

Runs IT Live Northland: security, cloud and AI for the region’s businesses. Brings what is actually working with technology inside real companies.

Think you belong in this room?

Tell us who you are, what you run and roughly what it turns over. Warwick and Andrew read every request themselves and you will hear back either way.

Attending means accepting the One Vault Community Charter: plain rules on confidentiality, no selling and respect for the room. We send it with your confirmation.

What you send here goes to Warwick and Andrew only. It is used to assess fit for the room and for nothing else, and it is never passed on or used for marketing.