Mark MacKizer.

Mark MacKizer, as a former Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (retired), is an expert in both overt and covert forms of harm perpetrated by narcissistic and psychopathic personalities. His roles have included extensive behavioural analysis and advisory work relating to risk, personality, and mitigation.

Mark’s 27-year career with the FBI has included general and leadership roles in special weapons and tactics, evidence response, crisis management coordination, organised crime drug trafficking investigations, homicide investigations, and co-ordination of one of the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment teams.

Mark spent 7 years assigned to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at Quantico where his focus was on crimes against children. He was responsible for providing behaviourally based operational support to law enforcement agencies internationally and domestically which involved threats of targeted violence, terrorism, homicide, sexual assault, child abduction, equivocal death, and cold cases, as well as training to federal, state, local and international law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation of child abductions, the disappearances of children under unusual circumstances, child homicide and child sexual victimisation.

Mark has an extensive career working with people who have psychopathic, narcissistic, and predatory personalities and their victims and surrounding communities. He is exceptionally experienced in working with the darker sides of human behaviour including coercion, exploitation, fraud, fabrication, intimidation/threats, grooming, toxicity, and manipulation.

At Kalmor, Mark specialises in advising organisations on ways to handle complex situations which involve risk resulting from the behaviour of a person within an organisation or community. The risk posed by the person may be to other people, to organisational reputation, to finances, to assets, and to organisational survival. Mark assists organisations work through the options for addressing the risk and which elicits the best responses and outcomes for all stakeholders.

At Kalmor, Mark also specialises in coercive control advisory work and training.

Mark is an expert in the detection and identification of coercive controlling behaviours. He has delivered presentations internationally on DARVO and interrogation/interview techniques designed to expose coercive controllers and where there is often limited evidence.

Coercive control is the art of using a plethora of strategies to target, engage, weaken, isolate, and exploit targets/victims causing severe harm which may be psychological, emotional, financial, social, reputational, parental, and relational. It has been described as a form of terrorism and may indirectly lead to death through illness, suicide, or drug-related death.

Mark has co-developed a unique, cutting edge, interviewing technique which can be used in the justice system to expose and gain actionable information from coercive control perpetrators, including higher functioning narcissists and psychopaths.

This technique can be used in any arena where coercive controllers engage including corporates, domestic violence, terrorism, cults, child prostitution and other sexually exploitative industries, consulting, religion, law enforcement, and the justice system. This specialised technique has been developed from data collected by the United States Government over a 5-year period relating to best practice interviewing and interrogation techniques and several other research projects presenting related data. Mark has worked on combining this best practice information to create this specialised interview/interrogation process.

At Kalmor, Mark is also a specialist presenter and facilitator of programs designed to educate about narcissistic and psychopathic personalities, their attributes, and tactics as well methods to expose and manage them.

Mark has presented at numerous conferences throughout the US and internationally on areas such as child abductions; DARVO and interrogation techniques; sex crimes and missing person investigations.