Who We Are
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Partners

Mark Carey

Mark Carey is the President of The Carey Group (TCG), a national consulting firm that provides training and technical assistance for justice and correctional professional and community groups.  He has served as the Deputy Commissioner of Community and Juvenile Services in the Minnesota Department of Corrections from 1999 to 2003, the Director of Dakota County Community Corrections, the Director of Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted County Community Corrections and, most recently, as the warden of MCF-Shakopee, the only state women’s prison in Minnesota.  He has over twenty years of experience in the correctional field serving as a counselor, probation/parole officer, planner, administrator, and consultant.  He taught juvenile justice at the Community College in Rochester, Minnesota, and has published over a dozen articles and two books.

Mark is the current President of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA.)  He has served as President and Chair for a number of Associations and Task Forces, and frequently is requested as a speaker and trainer.  He has been on the APPA Board of Directors since 1997.  In 1996 he received APPA’s Sam Houston University Award.  In 1993, he was selected as the Corrections Person of the Year by the Minnesota Corrections Association.

Frank Domurad

Frank Domurad is Vice President of The Carey Group and a nationally recognized expert in Evidence-Based Practices (EBP).  He has worked with community and institutional correctional agencies at the Federal, state and local levels across the country to implement Evidence-Based Practices, including strategic planning, assessment, human resource development, program implementation and training.  He has written extensively on evidence-based policy and practice, evidence-based management, cognitive-behavioral interventions, organizational development and change management, organizational culture, team building and collaboration, professional assessment/DACUM, strategic planning, e-learning, technology and public safety, and terrorism and homeland security.

Prior to joining The Carey Group, he served as Director of Staff and Organizational Development and Deputy Commissioner for Planning, Administration and Technology in the New York City Department of Probation.  He directed the design, implementation and evaluation of one of the City’s largest reengineering projects, Adult Supervision Restructuring (ASR), which restructured how Probation supervised 85,000 probationers and cumulatively saved almost $40 million in budget expenses.  He is also expert in public finance and public policy at the federal, state, and local levels of government and was the Deputy Auditor General for New York City, overseeing over thirty city agencies with a combined budget of $45 billion.

Barbara Chatzkel

Barbara Chatzkel is a Senior Partner of The Carey Group.  Barbara is an experienced Executive and Business Coach who specializes in helping community corrections organizations implement evidence-based practices and organizational transition and change.  She provides executive coaching services to Chief Probation Officers nationwide helping them to solve complex operational problems and formulate strategy.  Barbara also is an accomplished trainer in many community corrections topics.

She is expert in evidence-based practices implementation in jurisdictions.  This includes educating leaders, establishing implementation teams and committees, developing and monitoring action plans and establishing effective communications during the change. 

Barbara retired from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2000 as the National Director of Quality.  She led multiple reengineering teams for IRS that saved taxpayers millions of dollars and streamlined processing time from months to hours.  She also implemented the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) criteria throughout the 100,000 employee organization in conjunction with the National Treasury Employees’ Union (NTEU.) 

Barbara is a Certified Quality Manager and a Certified Quality Auditor.  She was a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner for 2 years, is a Judge for the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, is on the Technical Integrity Committee for the Arizona Quality Alliance, and is a graduate of Corporate Coach University.  She is the current President of the Cave Creek Museum in Arizona.