HF 2021 - Call for Papers

The OKRs to driving growth, innovation and engagement
2021-11-20, 14:00–14:50, Sponsors - Workshops
Language: English

How are CDW Canada, Google and Intel accelerating growth, driving innovation, increasing coworker engagement, and fostering coordination? They are all using OKRs (Objective Key Results); a simple yet effective approach to achieve operating excellence.

Join Darren as he shares how OKRs are driving growth, innovation, and engagement for the Risk Advisory Services team at CDW Canada.


As a follow up to last year’s talk on making a high performance team, Darren will discuss how OKRs can be used to provide focus to any organization’s most important work, foster coordination, unify and strengthen teams and companies. Additionally, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction, increase performance, and retention.

Darren has spent the past 7 years forming and developing the pentest team for CDW’s Risk Advisory Services practice. He is passionate about Security and ensuring that his team is continually improving and being the best that they can be. In his talk, he will share how OKRs are being used to engage and propel this high performing team to greater heights, as well as how OKRs can be readily used to help any organization or worthwhile venture thrive.


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Darren is a seasoned, results driven Management Consultant specializing in Information Security with over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology security management, operations, architecture, design, and audit.

He is currently the Principal Consultant responsible for directing the Cyber Security and Vulnerability Management teams of CDW Canada’s Risk Advisory Services practice, servicing clients in the Financial, Legal, Health Care, and Technology sectors.

Darren specializes in working with senior management to develop security programs using his advanced knowledge and ability to manage and deliver complex risk-based security framework implementations, perform threat risk assessments, security assessments and audits.

Darren graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering. He holds CCISO, CISSP, CISA, CIPP/C, ISO27001 LA certifications.