Kay Irby recently started a private consulting practice after serving in the nonprofit sector for over 20 years. 

For the last 14 years she has been with LANO, Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations, in 2006 serving as the Director of the association's regional office (Shreveport) and most recently in Baton Rouge as the Director of Organizational Development to nonprofits in need of organizational capacity building and training.

She has served as a consultant and coach for nonprofit boards all over the state of Louisiana. Her training specialties include Board Governance, Strategic Planning, Succession Planning, and an array of Nonprofit Basics.

The Community Leaders program that she pioneered over 13 years ago has trained hundreds of young professionals in nonprofit board service and has placed these young leaders on boards throughout the state.

Kay also developed LANO’s Executive Director roundtables (Shreveport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Lafayette) – a place where nonprofit leaders gather monthly and discuss important sector topics.  

She developed and co-facilitated LANO’s Board Chair Boot Camp in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. 

Previously, Kay served as the Assistant Executive Director of Alzheimer’s Services of Baton Rouge, Director of Ministry Resourcing for the Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, and Director of Volunteer Connection and Corporate Volunteer Council with Volunteer Baton Rouge.

Kay has presented at conferences around the state and for the Board Source national conference in 2016 on the Community Leaders program. 

Kay recently completed the Nonprofit Governance Consulting Certificate from Board Source and has trained professionally with Compass Point and Spectrum Nonprofits. 

She has certification from the Points of Light Foundation in Volunteer Management and is certified with Benevon’s “Raising More Money” fund development program.