MODERATORS HOME

Welcome Aboard

Welcome to the Peak Fellowship Moderators Circle. Thank you for stepping into leadership.

As a moderator, you’re not just helping run an event. You’re shaping the experience that makes Peak Fellowship different: a space where dentists can think out loud, share real challenges, and learn through honest conversation—without ego, pitches, or performance. Your collaboration helps protect what matters most here: psychological safety, meaningful connection, and the kind of learning that only happens when people feel genuinely seen and respected.

Your Role as a Moderator

Moderators are the guides of the Circle experience. You don’t need to be the “expert in the room”—you create the conditions where everyone can learn from one another.

In each Circle, your responsibilities include:

Prepare the container: review the topic, format, timing, and participant expectations
Open the Circle well: set tone, review community agreements, and clarify outcomes
Facilitate conversation: invite multiple voices, keep the group on track, and deepen the discussion with thoughtful prompts
Protect airtime and respect: prevent domination, redirect tangents kindly, and hold boundaries when needed
Close with intention: summarize themes, highlight takeaways, and guide next steps
Support the community loop: help participants feel welcomed and connected (including encouraging dinner/social time when applicable)

The goal: clarity, depth, and connection—every time.

Steward of Culture

Peak Fellowship works because the culture is real—and it stays real because moderators protect it.

As a steward of culture, you help maintain a community where people:

show up on time and fully present
share candidly without fear of judgment
listen with generosity
avoid pitching, positioning, or performing
make space for others to be heard
leave conversations better than they entered them

You are also a gatekeeper in the best sense of the word: not to keep people out, but to keep the experience safe and aligned—so the right people thrive inside it.

If something feels off—tone, behavior, repeated lateness, agenda-driven participation—your job is to address it early, kindly, and directly, or flag it to Peak leadership when needed.

Submit a Topic

Have an idea for a Circle or Summit you’d like to lead? Submit it here for review and scheduling.

What’s a Circle?

What’s a Summit?

Circles are small, curated gatherings designed for meaningful conversation and practical growth. Unlike traditional lectures, Circles are interactive, moderated discussions where 6-8 dentists come together around a focused topic: clinical, operational, leadership, or personal development.

A Summit is an immersive, high-impact gathering of the Peak Fellowship community designed to bring a larger group of dentists and dental leaders together around a focused, meaningful theme.

Unlike a traditional lecture conference, a Summit is not just about sitting and listening. It blends expert insights, real case discussions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and meaningful connection into a shared experience. There may be keynote-style presentations, but the heart of a Summit is interaction—dialogue, debate, shared challenges, and collective problem-solving.

Circle Topics

What we’re looking for:

Topics that create real discussion (not just a lecture)
clear “who this is for” and “what they’ll walk away with”
clinical, operational, leadership, and personal growth topics are all welcome—if they match the Fellowship ethos

What makes a strong Circle topic?

A strong Circle topic does three things:

Addresses a real tension dentists are facing right now
Invites discussion, not just information
Creates personal reflection and practical insight

If it can be “taught” in a one-way format, it may not be a Circle.
If it requires dialogue to unlock its value — that’s a Circle.

Summits may be:

Clinical (surgical, restorative, digital, complications, interdisciplinary)
Operational (systems, hiring, leadership, marketing, financial clarity)
Strategic (practice transitions, positioning, growth models)
Personal / leadership (decision-making, resilience, health, mindset)

Topic submission should include:

Title
2–4 sentence description
Who it’s for (ideal participant)
3 learning outcomes / takeaways
Suggested format (discussion / hot seats / case-based / workshop)
Any pre-work (optional)

Summit Topics