The Network's signature experience

The Shepherd's Roundtable.

A different room. A deeper conversation. A private, invitation-only gathering for senior pastors and ministry leaders, being developed for honest dialogue that doesn't happen in public.

Rows of wooden pews in a quiet church
Jun '27

Inaugural · planned

Jun '27

Inaugural gathering · planned

4×

A year · quarterly

8–12

Leaders per session

0

Speakers, sponsors or audience

Why the Roundtable exists

“The most dangerous place for a senior leader is a room full of people who can't tell them the truth.”

No speakers. No sponsors. No audience. Just leaders who have earned their seats, and the discipline to leave titles at the door.

Rules of the room

The structure that earns the trust.

01

No speakers. No experts.

Everyone in the room is a peer. No one presents, and every voice carries equal weight.

02

No public agenda.

What's discussed stays in the room: no social media, no attributed quotes, no marketing made from what is shared.

03

Curated, not open.

Every seat is considered. The value depends on the calibre and compatibility of who sits at the table.

04

Titles stay at the door.

Inside, you are a leader in a room of leaders: a peer doing the same hard work.

The format

Four deliberate phases.

Each phase earns the next, taking a room of peers to the conversation that matters.

Two people in conversation across a table
01

Opening context

A brief framing: a question or theme surfaced from the group ahead of time, to anchor the conversation without controlling it.

02

Open-table conversation

The core of the Roundtable. Leaders talk to each other, not to a facilitator.

03

Closing commitments

Each leader names one decision, question or shift they're taking with them.

04

Follow-through

Connection continues between gatherings.

The inaugural gathering

June 2027. The first room.

The first Shepherd's Roundtable is planned for June 2027 with the founding cohort of the ABN Network. Founding invitations are planned to begin in February 2027.

Location is shared with invited leaders

Expressions of interest are welcome. Participation is subject to review and formal invitation. We respond within 48 hours.