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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Natural justice. Procedural fairness. Two phrases that sound like they belong in a courtroom — but they show up in community clubs and volunteer organisations more often than most committees realise. This episode, the Kates welcome a special guest to unpack what these principles actually mean for small NFPs, and what happens when they go wrong.
The insurance lapsed four months ago. Nobody noticed until a hire group asked for the certificate of currency. And Dave’s Working With Children Check expired in April. Nobody followed that up either. Compliance doesn’t have to be complicated — it just has to be tracked. This episode shows you how.
The Constitution isn’t working anymore. It describes an organisation you no longer are. The committee knows it needs to change but changing it feels too hard, too complicated and too uncertain — so they work around it. Until one day they can’t. This episode covers what to do instead.
Does your Constitution allow us to do that? The room goes quiet. The Secretary starts hunting around in the shared drive. This episode begins the Documents Done Right series with the most important document your organisation has — what a Constitution is, what must be in it, and why one size definitely does not fit all.
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.
