Helping good people do good work together.

Governance & Strategy

From Wish List to Yes List: Turning Good Intentions into Action

Every organisation has a list of things it would love to do. Most of those ideas never make it past the planning stage. Jodie shares how she helps boards, leadership teams and community groups turn that list into a clear plan everyone can get behind.

Your audience will gain: A clear picture of why plans stall, simple tools for getting a team aligned, and the confidence to take the first step.

Governance & Leadership

Good Governance Under Pressure: What Resilient Boards Do Differently

When a crisis hits, community members often step up to help. They join a board, start a committee, get an organisation off the ground. But running it, advocating for the community, and managing funding all at once is hard. It's harder still when you're dealing with the crisis yourself.

So what does good governance look like under pressure? Adaptive, community-led, the kind that doesn't burn out the people doing the work. Jodie has spent years facilitating boards across disaster recovery, NFP, social enterprise and council settings. The boards that thrive aren't the ones with the best strategy or the biggest budget. They're the ones with better habits.

Your audience will gain: A practical lens on what high-functioning boards actually do, the small habits that separate them from struggling ones, and a way to tell whether your board's frustration is a strategy problem, a people problem, or a workload problem.

Sector Networks & Collaboration

How Resourceful Leaders Move the Mission Forward

Regional and purpose-led organisations tend to do big work with small teams, long distances and stretched budgets. The leaders who get the most done are rarely the loudest. They're the ones who know how to draw on the networks around them, their own, but also their board's, their team's, their community's, their sector's. Jodie shares how to recognise those networks, build genuine relationships across them, and use them well so that everyone benefits.

Your audience will gain: A practical approach to seeing the networks already around their organisation, advice for building real relationships across organisational lines, and a way of influencing and advocating that benefits everyone involved.

Revenue & Sustainability

Beyond the Grant Cycle: Diversifying Income for Purpose-Led Organisations

Funding shifts. Governments change. The grant that built your program last year may not be there next year. Jodie unpacks what revenue diversification actually looks like for purpose-led organisations, including which ideas are worth chasing, which are distractions, and how to test something new without betting the organisation on it.

Your audience will gain: Sharper judgment about new revenue ideas, the warning signs of a bad bet, and a starting point for building income that isn't at the mercy of the next funding round.

Leadership & Decisions

Signal Versus Noise: Lessons from Sixteen Years on Community Radio

In radio, you don't fix a bad signal by shouting louder. You fix it by reducing the noise. Most leaders of purpose-led organisations are doing the opposite. They add more strategy, more comms, more meetings, hoping clarity will eventually come through.

Jodie spent sixteen years on community radio alongside her time as an NFP CEO and board chair. The lesson radio engineers have always known carries across: the loudest voice in the room is rarely the most important one, and sometimes the noise is coming from inside the studio.

Your audience will gain: A counterintuitive way to think about leadership decisions, the most common sources of noise in purpose-led organisations (including from boards, sector trends, and the leader's own life), and small adjustments that help teams hear what actually matters.