Helping good people do good work together.

Governance & Strategy

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

Most good ideas never make it to the planning stage. Jodie shares how savvy boards, leadership teams and community groups can invest their resources in the things that move the mission forward, with 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.

Leadership & Resilience

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 itself.

So what does good governance look like under pressure? Jodie has spent years facilitating boards across local government, NFPs, social enterprises and community led disaster recovery groups, often during times of crisis. The boards that thrive aren't the ones with the most passionate members, the sharpest strategy or the healthiest bank balance. They're the ones with the most adaptive practices.

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.

Networks & Collaboration

How Resourceful Leaders Move the Mission Forward

Regional and purpose-led organisations are great at leveraging small teams and stretched budgets. The leaders who get the most done are the ones who know how to draw on the networks around them, not just their own, but also their board, their team, their community and their sector. 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 tapping into their networks, advice for building real trusted 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 launched your program last year may not be there next year. Jodie unpacks what revenue diversification looks like for purpose-led organisations: 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.

Dynamics & Decisions

Signal Versus Noise: Lessons from Sixteen Years on Community Radio

In radio, you don't fix a bad signal by increasing the volume. You fix it by reducing the noise. Many discussions within purpose-led organisations do the opposite, adding more strategy, more comms, more meetings, hoping clarity will eventually come through.

Jodie spent more than a decade on community radio while serving as CEO of Travellers Aid Australia, board member of VCOSS, and inaugural president of Emergency Relief Victoria, been an independent chair of numerous Nomination and Remuneration Committees and now is an independent member of the Gippsland Community Foundation's fundraising committee. The same principle that applies on air applies in the boardroom: the noise drowning out the mission is rarely from outside the room. More often, it's coming from within it.

Your audience will gain: A new way to think about strategic decision making, a clearer sense of where the noise is coming from, and small changes that help your board focus on the mission.