If your committee is spending more time arguing about the agenda than actually running your organisation, you’ve found the right podcast. Kate Hartwig and Kate McPhee are governance consultants who’ve seen it all — and they’re here to help.
Real advice for real committees – no theory, no fluff
Sporting clubs, community groups, associations of all kinds – we’ve got you.
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Deferring is a decision too — and it’s usually the worst one available. This episode covers why committees keep putting off decisions they should already have made, how to tell legitimate deferral from avoidance, and the five principles that make a committee decision responsible, defensible and done.
You can have the best-prepared agenda in the world and still have a terrible meeting if nobody’s running the room well. This episode covers the Chair’s real job — drawing out the quiet voices, redirecting the loud ones, and making sure every decision is properly made and properly recorded…
All the good governance in the world only comes to life if your meetings work — and the work that makes a meeting run well happens days before anyone walks in the room. The first episode of the Smarter Meetings series covers everything that needs to happen before you sit down.
It’s Bastille Day, Kate M is live from Central France, and the Kates have found history’s best case study in governance failure. The French Revolution turns out to be surprisingly instructive. The governance content is completely serious. The framing is decidedly not. Madame La Guillotine is not an approved governance tool…
Kate has spent forty years working in and around not-for-profit and membership organisations — as a CEO, Director, and independent consultant. She’s seen governance done brilliantly and seen it done badly, across organisations from swimming pools to architects and AIDS charities and has spent the last decade helping Committees find their feet.
That breadth is what she brings to The Committee Room: practical, no-nonsense advice and a genuine belief that good governance is just common sense, applied consistently.
Kate McPhee has three decades of hands-on experience helping small clubs and associations get more done with less stress. Her background is gloriously eclectic — local government, state parliament, four children, forty-plus years of volunteering — and she’s project-managed the establishment, restructure, merger or dissolution of more than forty organisations.
She’s also the author of Just a Tick, a plain-English governance guide for committees and boards, and Principal Industry Consultant for Clubs SA’s Club Development Program.
