June 6, 2023 — Today, Cozen O’Connor announces a transition for two of its ancillary businesses, Margolis Healy and Associates and COSECURE.
For decades, Margolis Healy has been a market leader specializing in safety, security, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance for communities and workplaces across industries, with a strong focus on K-12 and higher education. Acquired by Cozen O’Connor in 2017 as an ancillary business of the firm, Margolis Healy has continued its reputation as a leader in the field.
Today, the physical security and emergency preparedness capabilities offered by MHA will merge into the firm’s existing ancillary business, COSECURE. This evolution comes as a natural next step in enhancing COSECURE’s cybersecurity focus to encompass all aspects of organizational security. COSECURE, as an expanded entity, will now offer industry-specific, comprehensive physical security assessments, crisis planning and response offerings, and workplace violence training, in addition to the cyber risk services it has always provided. Daniel R. Pascale, former executive vice president of Margolis Healy, now leads COSECURE as its new CEO.
Margolis Healy will now operate under the name The Healy+ Group. The business will focus solely on best-in-industry Clery Act compliance consulting, organizational assessments for higher education police and campus safety organizations, after-action reviews and special investigations, expert consulting for civil litigation, and culture and strategy services focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and initiatives. Steven J. Healy, founder and CEO of Margolis Healy, will lead Healy+. Margolis Healy has cemented its reputation as a national thought leader in Clery Act compliance and Healy+ will continue to provide this same world-class services to the higher education community.
With this evolution, both COSECURE and Healy+ will continue to operate as ancillary businesses of the firm and will maintain a relationship as collaborators powered by professional-grade expertise, decades of experience, and leaders on the cutting-edge of their respective fields.
For any questions, please reach out to:
Brian Gillam
Chief Operating Officer, Ancillary Business Units, Cozen O’Connor
bgillam@cozen.com | (215) 665-6936
Steven Healy
CEO, The Healy+ Group
shealy@healyplus.com | (609) 468-8326
Daniel R. Pascale
CEO, COSECURE
dpascale@cosecure.com | (262) 527-1332
November 7, 2023
Steven Healy and Kyle Norton spoke with Spotlight PA about a Penn State student who raised concerns about a decrease in crime alerts on campus and requested historical crime data under the Clery Act, but faced delays and denials. The student filed a complaint with the U. S.
September 25, 2023
Our Vice President of Culture and Strategy, Dr. Diedrick Graham, was invited to talk to Dr. Michelle Robin of Big Shifts Foundation in advance of their 31 Days of Kindness campaign.
September 18, 2023
Diedrick Graham, PhD, Vice President of Culture and Strategy at The Healy+ Group, recently spoke to HR Executive Magazine, elaborating on the concept of safety in the organizational context and the connection between physical and psychological well-being.Read the full article here.
August 29, 2023
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with our CEO Steven Healy about how college campuses can balance the need for open access with safety and security.Listen here.
September 27, 2022
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August 23, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, PA. – August 23, 2022 – Margolis Healy, a professional services firm and ancillary business of Cozen O’Connor, is excited to announce several key additions to its experienced staff of consultants and subject matter experts. The firm welcomes four new seasoned industry professionals to its rapidly growing consulting practice to provide strategy and expertise to workplaces, communities, schools, and campuses to create safe, welcoming, and respectful environments for their employees, students, and community members.
August 22, 2022
Daniel Pascale was quoted in HR Dive discussing the increase of violence. The last few years have brought a jump in homicides, Daniel pointed on in an August 3 webinar. And sadly, he said, “we’re going to see that spill into the workplace.
May 2, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, PA. – May 2, 2022 – Margolis Healy is excited to announce that Jonathan Kassa has joined its consulting practice. Jonathan has led innovative national initiatives to increase community safety and victim advocacy over a career spanning 29 years.
March 11, 2022
Margolis Healy and Associates and COSECURE hosted a webinar in conjunction with PaWARN on the cyber and physical security threats that water and wastewater facilities face today. Dr. Ronald Menold of COSECURE and Daniel Pascale of Margolis Healy were joined by Mike Snyder of PaWARN for this webinar.
September 29, 2021
Steven Healy spoke with NBC5 about the importance of emergency alerts sent on campuses. He recommends all universities take steps to make sure there's no delay in emergency alerts. "Institutions should be testing their systems on a regular basis.
February 11, 2021
WILLISTON, VT. – February 11, 2021 – Margolis Healy is excited to announce that Gabe Gates, formerly from the University of Virginia and the Pennsylvania State University, has joined its consulting practice. Gates brings his extensive leadership experience in campus safety, Clery Act compliance, youth protection, and policy development to his role with Margolis Healy.
April 2, 2020
Earlier today, CEO and co-founder of Margolis Healy Steven Healy announced the promotion of Robert L. Evans to director of K-12 Services. Since 2014, Evans, a retired captain with the Vermont State Police and a former Army Ranger, has served in a unique role for Margolis Healy as the liaison to the Vermont Agency of Education and Department of Public Safety.
September 9, 2019
WILLISTON, VT. – September 9, 2019 – Cozen O’Connor and Margolis Healy announced that Christi Hurt has joined both firms as vice president for strategic initiatives. In this newly created position, Hurt will lead strategic initiatives for both Margolis Healy and Cozen O’Connor’s Institutional Response Group.
June 7, 2019
Dan Pascale discussed with WCAX3 about the efforts in Vermont to keep children safe at school. Law enforcement evaluated 95 percent of schools in Vermont last year. Now, almost $700,000 from a Department of Homeland Security grant will help schools with emergency preparedness.
May 16, 2019
Kathy Zoner discussed with Campus Security Report about what a campus safety leader should do when creating an efficient unit. “Nothing beats face-to-face” for getting feedback on your performance, Zoner said. You can conduct surveys or hold forums.
May 7, 2019
Steven Healy discussed with the USA Today about how a campus layout impacts protecting people on campus like it did at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Universities can be particularly hard to protect against people with bad intentions. They tend to be open spaces, especially public colleges like UNCC, and it can be hard to track everyone who comes and goes.
April 29, 2019
BURLINGTON, VT. – April 29, 2019 – Margolis Healy today announced that the firm will partner with Vermont’s Department of Public Safety to provide school safety planning, training, and exercise assistance to Vermont schools. This partnership marks the second phase of a school safety strategy announced by the Scott Administration in February 2018, following the first phase of a statewide school safety assessment overseen by DPS.
March 7, 2019
Margolis Healy will be discussing our campus safety report during a special meeting with the Board of Trustees, PSU community and public. Click here for the full story.
March 5, 2019
Kathy Zoner — who worked for 27 years in the Cornell Police Department, the last decade serving as the university’s chief of police — joins Margolis Healy as director of organizational assessments. Kathy will manage all projects related to campus safety assessments including management and staffing studies, post-incident reviews, special investigations, and other projects related to campus safety and security. “I am excited for the opportunity to more broadly share the vast human relations knowledge and positive police-community relationship building I have gained while at Cornell.
August 3, 2017
Cozen O’Connor Acquires Safety and Security Consulting FirmMargolis Healy & Associates serves universities, colleges, K-12 schools, government agencies, and private entities across the country on matters of safety and security Philadelphia, August 3, 2017 - Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce the acquisition of Margolis Healy & Associates, LLC, a leading consulting firm specializing in safety and security and regulatory compliance in the United States. This acquisition by a business subsidiary of Cozen O’Connor comes six months after Cozen O’Connor launched the country’s premier Institutional Response Group led by Gina Maisto Smith and Leslie Gomez. The highly accomplished attorneys in the Institutional Response Group provide legal advice and guidance to assist institutions in preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based harassment and violence, child abuse, and other forms of interpersonal violence.
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