Kathy Keeley

Kathy Keeley, Principle, The Keeley Group,  has been a social entrepreneur and executive for more than 20 years. She has been a nonprofit consultant for the last 10 years, providing strategic planning, consulting, facilitation, and coaching services to nonprofit organizations and small businesses. Keeley focuses on social enterprise and business planning. She has worked for small and large boards, and consulted with more than 100 boards in the last 10 years. She regularly provides board development training and consulting to her nonprofit clients.

Keeley has started five nonprofit organizations in her career. The Women’s Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO) is the best known: It was the first loan fund for women-owned businesses in the US. 

Keeley is the former Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Minneapolis, worked for the Corporation for Enterprise Development in DC, and has worked for Weidner, Inc. providing strategic planning and performance-based plans to large urban departments throughout the US.