Greg Mckay Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az

North America

North America

Arizona, United States

A Found Future Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering and supporting young people, age 14-21, who are experiencing or leaving foster care. Our mission is to establish partnerships and capture resources to fill the gaps resulting from the foster care experience. Directly funding necessary supports will transform the lives of foster youth, empowering them to break the cycle of adversity and become secure, independent, and purposeful adults.A Found Future closes the technology gap by providing foster youth with laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, software, and training.A Found Future assists foster youth in obtaining driver’s education, an instructional permit, a driver’s license, a vehicle, and insurance.A Found Future pays tuition for vocational programs and trade schools, and facilitates mentorships and apprenticeships to equip foster youth with practical skills and knowledge to quickly start and maintain a career.A Found Future envisions a future where every young person experiencing or leaving foster care has equal opportunities and support to overcome challenges, achieve their aspirations, and lead fulfilling lives. We aim to prevent generational child maltreatment and reliance on foster care.

United States

Sound Advice for Child Welfare, HHS, and Public Safety and Justice OrganizationsExecutive Coaching and Development: All too often, government leaders are thrust into the top role without adequate preparation. Moreover, they are typically inheriting a system in crisis, making it difficult to integrate and build sound relationships and strategies. Having been thrown into the shark tank personally, I know how to navigate the perils of executive leadership, bringing immediate relief in areas like crisis management, policy reform, process improvement, people management, and legal, political, and media pressure. I led the reformation of Arizona's Child Welfare system and brought the state from worst ranked in the US, to best in class. Please let us help you.IT Transformation: Antiquated technology systems strip government organizations of vital capacity and lead to suboptimal outcomes for constituents. Moreover, efficiencies and savings are unrealized. But the decision to undertake an IT transformation is critical, therefore preplanning is key. I have been in the trenches of system replacements and cloud migrations, and know how to keep you from falling in. I led the deployment of Arizona’s, first in the nation, end-to-end platform based child welfare data system that replaced the state's 24-year-old mainframe. I can also help you with political, procurement, and change management approaches as well. I also worked in big tech and have the inside info.Class Action Litigation Defense (SME): Class action litigation against government organizations has become a pervasive and toxic practice that does more harm than good. What may have started as a well-intentioned mechanism to reform underperforming systems, has become an enterprise that enriches attorneys, violates constitutional separation of powers, does not help class members, and zaps innovation for decades. I successfully defended a CRI lawsuit in AZ and and can help you do the same. Do not accept a consent decree.

Global

Industry vertical leader/subject matter expert for Microsoft's $13 billion Government Sector business. Focused on Public Health/Social Services, Public Safety/Justice, Critical Infrastructure, and Public Finance.Relationship building, sales enablement, thought leadership, solution development/accelerators, pipeline generation, SI/GISV partnerships and GTM strategy.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft's in-house system integrator, contracted my services as the former state child welfare leader who implemented an end-to-end system replacement. Helped build relationships with government c-suites, enable sales teams, craft RFPs, submit responses, attend orals, and garner awards. Dynamics 365 platform on AZURE was their Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) solution offering.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Childhelp is one of America's oldest nonprofits for the protection, prevention, and treatment of abused children. Core businesses were a National Child Abuse Hotline; Child Advocacy Centers coordinating with law enforcement, healthcare, legal, and social work professionals; and residential treatment centers and schools for children suffering severe trauma and behavioral health crisis. Organization's size was 700 employees and a $45 million annual budget emanating from government contracts, grants, and fund raising.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Greg was appointed Director of Arizona’s Department of Child Safety (ADCS) by Governor Douglas A. Ducey on February 10th, 2015. ADCS is the state's child welfare organization hosting nearly 3000 employees and a $1 billion budget. Under Greg’s leadership, the child welfare agency recovered from its position as worst ranked among 50 states to first ranked in most notable categories. Remarkably, he did so with a leaner workforce and saved or cost avoided $98 million of federal and state dollars during his five-year tenure. Greg and his team inherited the recently divested agency with nearly 20,000 backlogged investigations, the highest foster care growth in America (92%), an unresponsive call center, the highest caseloads in the nation, over 50% turnover, 19,043 children in foster care, and a $70 million year-over-year deficit. On his third day in role, Greg was served as the defendant in a class action lawsuit brought by Childrens' Rights Inc. that would have placed the state agency under the control of attorneys and a federal judge. Greg launched a strategy of holistic reform, confronting culture, public policy, organizational design and processes, spending, political norms, public/media relations, and antiquated tools and technology. At its conclusion, the retributive culture abated, the call center ranked best-in-class, the backlog subsided to a couple hundred, caseload averages dropped from the 150's to the teens, turnover was in the low 20% range, and a 28% safe foster care reduction left about 13,600 children in foster care. Due to a balanced budget and a surplus, pay raises for line level staff and supervisors were given for the first time in a decade. Greg and his team successfully defended against the class action, which closed with no decree, no monitors, and no imposed benchmarks. Greg and his team were also the first in America to successfully replace a mainframe for an end-to-end platform based child welfare data system.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

In 2011, Governor Janice K. Brewer enacted a Child Safety Task Force to explore solutions to recurring child fatalities involving children with significant histories and interactions with the child welfare system. It's primary result was the legislatively created Office of Child Welfare Investigations (OCWI), which was tasked with better protecting children who were alleged victims of criminal abuse and neglect. The primary goal was to reduce fatalities and repeat maltreatment of known victims by merging law enforcement's investigative acumen with social workers interacting with children and families. In 2012, Greg McKay was appointed by Governor Brewer to be the first chief. Greg was the sole employee, and was required to build the office from scratch. No staff, policies, procedures, training, facilities, or equipment existed. Greg started with an appropriation to hire 25 staff in order to investigate over 11,000 criminal maltreatment allegations. He launched operations and focused on the highest priority cases in Arizona's metropolitan areas. Based on demonstrable results, Greg lobbied the Governor and the Legislature to appropriate funding for 100 more staff. The unit went from investigating 300 crimes per year to over 3000 statewide.It was through this office, and the homicide of a child, that Greg and his team discovered a CPS process of administratively closing cases without ever responding or investigating abuse allegations. Nearly 7000 such cases were discovered, leading to continued abuse of children and the eventual abolition of the former child protection agency.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Greg became a police officer in Phoenix, America's fifth largest city, in 1995. While with Phoenix PD, he worked Patrol Division in the Squaw Peak Precinct where he was a field training officer. He left patrol and joined the Organized Crime Bureau where he investigated and tracked criminal syndicates and prison gang members. He also worked in the Gang Enforcement Unit, disrupting criminal street gangs, predominantly in the Maryvale and South Mountain precincts.He went on to join the Family Investigations Bureau and investigated Crimes Against Children and Sexual Exploitation for seven years. He and his wife became foster parents to child victim during this time. He joined the Major Offender Bureau's Fugitive Apprehension Investigation Detail (FAID), where he and his teammates conducted surveillance and eventually tactical operations to bring in the most wanted, violent fugitives. He lost one of his best friends, and teammate, John Hobbs, during a shootout with a parolee wanted for homicide. For this reason, and many others, Greg opposes criminal justice reform that permits known criminals to endanger the public.Greg's final assignment was in the Violent Crime Bureau's Homicide Unit, where he investigated and assisted investigating countless murders and unexplained deaths. During this time, he re-evaluated several complex child death cases that were ruled accidental or undetermined, and eventually cleared each as a homicide. Several convictions followed, including two death penalty sentences. He was awarded Arizona's Investigator of the Year in 2012 for this work, and was requisitioned by Governor Jan Brewer to merge criminal investigative expertise into the state's child protection system. In 2015, Greg honorably retired from Phoenix PD after 20 years of service. This was in response to Governor Douglas A. Ducey appointing him Director of Arizona's Department of Child Safety.

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