Why this work exists.
Before the Scandal comes from an uncomfortable place: not merely studying leadership failure, but confronting it personally.
Will Cain
“I didn't write this book because I survived a wolf. I wrote it because I was one.”
Will Cain is the author of Wolves in Wool: The Shepherd's Warning and founder of the Before the Scandal Leadership Initiative. His approach to pastoral integrity is shaped by failure, repentance, accountability, and the long work of rebuilding trust.
The initiative grows from a conviction that the Church should not have to wait for exposure before it tells the truth. Leaders need language for the warnings that come before the fall—and churches need structures that make honesty possible before crisis makes it mandatory.
Truth before exposure.
Through the book, the Leadership Integrity Audit and the Leadership Intensive, the work asks one central question: What if we stopped the next church scandal before it happened?