Kari Shively

Kari Shively is a Senior Vice President with Stantec, responsible for marketing, business development, and growth within the company’s water business line. Stantec is a global consultancy with 26,000 engineers, scientists, planners, and other professionals that has been providing creative, collaborative solutions to California’s water needs for more than 70 years. In her current position, Kari leads strategy and business development for Stantec’s North American water business line, connecting clients, experts, and communities to help identify sustainable solutions for our toughest water challenges.

A career employee of Stantec, Kari has held a variety of positions in the company spanning business operations, project and account management, and technical leadership. Kari strongly believes that effective teams reflect the communities in which they live and work, and that having diverse minds at the table helps us craft the best possible solutions. This has led her to help drive Stantec’s diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and support women and people of color in finding success in the engineering consulting industry.

A registered professional engineer, Kari draws on three decades of experience in water resources planning and management in the West. Her focus is on balancing the demands placed on our limited water resources, helping to identify water-related vulnerabilities, define goals and streamline decision making, and craft sustainable water projects and policies. Highlights have included working collaboratively with state and federal agencies on complex projects including the Central Valley Flood Management Program, Delta Plan, Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Investigation, American River Basin Common Features Project, and others. She has also worked with water agencies and interest groups to help craft guidance, policy recommendations, and policy implementation plans related to water resource management, water use efficiency and conservation, ecosystem restoration, flood protection, and other challenges. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from University of the Pacific.

Outside the business of water, Kari loves the outdoors, especially hiking and adventuring throughout California with her two sons. As an amateur rockhound, she enjoys exploring and collecting rocks in new, out of the way places.