About Career Catalyst Institute

Connecting education, opportunity, and enrollment growth.

Career Catalyst Institute is a higher education enrollment and workforce development company that partners with colleges and universities to strengthen student recruitment, engagement, and enrollment operations.

Educate · Empower · Elevate

CCI exists to create stronger connections between individuals, academic institutions, and businesses through education, career advancement, and workforce development.

Mission

Build stronger pathways from prospective-student interest to enrollment and career advancement.

CCI’s mission is to connect individuals with educational opportunities while helping institutions build stronger, more effective pathways from prospective-student interest to enrollment and career advancement.

Vision

Become a trusted national institutional partner.

CCI’s long-term vision is to help transform how colleges and universities connect with, engage, and support prospective students on their path from education to career.

Our Values

The standards behind the operating model.

01

Trust

Act with integrity, transparency, and responsible stewardship.

02

Reliability

Deliver consistent, dependable service institutional partners can confidently integrate.

03

Confidence

Communicate clearly, professionally, and with purpose.

04

Progress

Continuously improve people, processes, technology, and outcomes.

Leadership

Complementary experience across enrollment and execution.

CCI’s leadership combines higher education enrollment strategy with complex operations, systems engineering, technology, and organizational scaling.

LC

Lacey Casey

Chief Executive Officer

Higher education enrollment leader focused on institutional growth, enrollment strategy, admissions operations, and scalable team performance.

DC

Devontae Casey

Chief Operating Officer

USMC veteran, engineer, technical leader, and executive focused on operations, systems, technology, analytics, workforce planning, and scalable service delivery.

How We Work

Human-centered engagement, structured processes, and technology.

CCI is designed to operate as an extension of institutional admissions teams while maintaining clear role boundaries. Qualification criteria, messaging, workflows, scheduling procedures, reporting expectations, and other delivery requirements are established with each institutional partner.