Full Name
Casi Callaway
Job Title
Founder
Company
Activate-Build-Connect, Inc.
Speaker Bio
Casi Callaway is the founder and principal of Activate-Build-Connect, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to building resilient teams and organizations through strategic engagement, expert training, and actionable planning. Callaway successfully led campaigns and projects by bringing diverse stakeholders together over a 30+ year career in the non-profit and local government sectors. She supports team and leadership building, provides campaign and strategy-focused planning support, and designs and conducts community outreach and engagement.
Callaway grew up in Mobile, Alabama, graduated from Emory University, and then organized and lobbied in Washington DC on environmental legislation at the local, state, and federal level. She came home to advocate for Mobile Bay spending 23 years growing Mobile Baykeeper into a 20-member team with a $1M budget and a host of environmental wins. She served the City of Mobile as the first Chief Resilience Officer in the State of Alabama to imbed resilience into systems and remove barriers so the team could focus on building place-based, inclusive, risk-aware, and forward-focused solutions to current and future challenges. Callaway joined the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network as the Chief Impact Officer to support its work to connect and strengthen the civil servant leaders at more than 150 local governments working in sustainability and resilience. She researched, prepared, and coordinated peer learning, managed the $3.5 million operations effort, and led on SSDN’s resilience topics.
Callaway earned several awards for leadership over her career, serves on Waterkeeper Alliance Leadership Circle, and is an Elder at Government Street Presbyterian Church. She is certified floodplain manager, Everything DiSC Trainer, and presents to a variety of audiences on resilience, environmental issues, and leadership and team building. Callaway is also pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy in Environment and Science at the University of South Alabama’s Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Casi and her husband will see their only child graduate high school this year.
Callaway grew up in Mobile, Alabama, graduated from Emory University, and then organized and lobbied in Washington DC on environmental legislation at the local, state, and federal level. She came home to advocate for Mobile Bay spending 23 years growing Mobile Baykeeper into a 20-member team with a $1M budget and a host of environmental wins. She served the City of Mobile as the first Chief Resilience Officer in the State of Alabama to imbed resilience into systems and remove barriers so the team could focus on building place-based, inclusive, risk-aware, and forward-focused solutions to current and future challenges. Callaway joined the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network as the Chief Impact Officer to support its work to connect and strengthen the civil servant leaders at more than 150 local governments working in sustainability and resilience. She researched, prepared, and coordinated peer learning, managed the $3.5 million operations effort, and led on SSDN’s resilience topics.
Callaway earned several awards for leadership over her career, serves on Waterkeeper Alliance Leadership Circle, and is an Elder at Government Street Presbyterian Church. She is certified floodplain manager, Everything DiSC Trainer, and presents to a variety of audiences on resilience, environmental issues, and leadership and team building. Callaway is also pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy in Environment and Science at the University of South Alabama’s Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Casi and her husband will see their only child graduate high school this year.
