One VAULT
Dawn over Whangarei Harbour, with Mount Manaia on the skyline

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

Invitation only, for owners of $3M-plus businesses from Auckland to Cape Reinga. One gathering a month.

Request an invitation How the room works
$3M to $5MInvited guests
$5M to $10MMembers
$10M+Vault 10 members
16 to 24People in the room
Monthly4:00 to 6:00pm, alternating Albany and Whangarei

Every gathering opens with an owner story. Then it gets to the part people come for.

The story is short. Most of the two hours goes on the tables.

The Owner’s Table

Each person says who they are, what’s on their mind, and where they would value perspective. The table then picks one issue and stays on it long enough to get somewhere.

  • What’s the real decision here?
  • Has anyone dealt with something similar?
  • What did you learn the hard way?
  • What’s 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 a next action they’ve actually decided on.

ONE OWNER  /  BY ARRANGEMENT

Vault 10

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

$10M+ TURNOVER  /  SELECTED GATHERINGS

Whangarei Heads seen from the water, with Mount Manaia above the coastline Two hours Once a month, in the late afternoon.

Owners have full calendars. That’s why the format is fixed and we don’t move the finish time.

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 didn’t, what they would do differently
4:40pmQuestionsFacilitated questions from the room
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
6:00pmFinishWe don’t run over
One VAULT

Confidentiality is what makes the honest version possible.

Everyone who walks in signs up to the same room standard, hosts included. It’s short, it’s plain English, and we enforce it.

  • 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. Don’t 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. Be as direct as you like, as long as you’re not careless with it.

Turnover is only the entry requirement.

A large business doesn’t 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.
  • Guests join from $3M turnover, members from $5M, and Vault 10 members from $10M.
  • You bring something you haven’t solved yet.
  • You contribute generously and you keep what you hear to yourself.
  • Direct competitors are never seated at the same table.

Two facilitators

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.

Boats moored at Whangarei marina, masts against the hills behind

Warwick Taylor

Managing Director, Gemini Northland

Facilitates owner advisory boards across Northland. Brings the discipline that keeps a good conversation moving toward a decision.

Andrew Fergus

Hyper Limited

Two decades in security, cloud and AI for the region’s businesses. Brings what technology is actually doing inside real companies right now.

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’ll 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, Andrew and Leeann only. It’s used to assess fit for the room and for nothing else, and it’s never passed on or used for marketing.