Darcy O’Grady.
The go-to HR consultant
to grow your business
About Us
O’Grady Consultants Inc. is the go-to HR consulting firm when you’re ready to leverage your people to grow your business. We understand and bring solutions to the different people challenges that come with each stage of your company’s evolution.
Our extensive experience has help transform start-ups into multi-national operating companies. We provide strategic and operational HR consulting services that result in proven business-centered HR solutions that support your growth plans.
Darcy O’Grady – President & Principal
Darcy O’Grady is a seasoned HR Executive who holds Chartered Professional HR designations in Canada and the USA and is Certified to offer Extended DISC assessments. He has a degree in economics, attended BCIT’s HR curriculum and Harvard’s Executive Leadership Education Program. After graduating from university, he worked as an analyst and then transitioned into Human Resources with a global oil company. He held roles as a recruiter, compensation & benefits analyst and generalist. He has done the work and has a keen understanding of the fundamentals.
His career success led him to HR responsibility at the Director, Vice-President, Senior Vice-President and Chief Human Resources Officer level within the high technology, engineering professional services and life-sciences sectors. This included experience in start-up / early stage companies helping them scale to successful multi-national ventures. He has built high-performing teams with many of his former reports now holding VP HR responsibility. He is a great mentor and developer of talent.
Along the way Darcy gained experience helping companies establish operations in Canada, the USA, Europe, Middle-East, South Africa, Australia, Japan and Asia. He has been through the IPO and exit/sale process, conducted many M&A due diligence assessments and led several integration planning and execution activities.
Professionally, Darcy has been very active in the HR community as a founder of the BC HR Technology Group where he also served as President and a Board member. He was also a member of the BC Premier’s Technology Counsel providing recommendations to enhance the sector. He championed and led the legislative change initiative for BC’s Employment Standards Act which introduced the High-Tech variance resulting in significant overtime pay reduction for the sector. He was the recipient of the CPHR BC Association’s Award for Professional Excellence as a result. He has also served as a Board member for the BC CPHR association and acts as a Board member for a charitable society.
O’Grady Consultants Inc. has partnerships with associations, several independent service providers and vendors who are drawn on to help our clients.
We have a true passion for helping businesses form, perform, grow and succeed. We position HR to enable your success!
Darcy O’Grady – President & Principal
What clients say
“ROI within the first few weeks”
We engaged Darcy, based upon a referral, to aid us in preparing our organization for its next phase of evolution. The company had recently pivoted to new industry requiring an organization restructure to better align with the new business. We had no internal human resource department in our company and needed input from an experienced HR professional.
Darcy undertook a review of our current organization and worked with our leadership team to structure the most effective organization to deliver on the new business requirements. His project included an internal assessment of our current team’s skills, facilitation of our strategic off-sites, and identification of opportunities to realign our resources, thereby positioning us for success in context with our new strategic plan.
Darcy’s guidance and responsiveness to our needs, helped us to efficiently make the required changes within a few weeks. I would recommend Darcy if you require an independent unbiased perspective of your organization, and a refined clarity on the best way forward.
“Provides tremendous value”
We recently engaged Darcy to provide a full review of our Executive compensation position and practices. It was quickly evident that Darcy had the experience and expertise to help us, producing an excellent report and recommendations based on sound analysis.
Darcy provided tremendous value in an expedited time frame. We have since engaged Darcy on other HR policy issues. We will use Darcy’s services again and highly recommend him.
“Instrumental in helping us build the business“
On a referral, I engaged Darcy to help me build my business. He has helped me assess and select people with the needed skill and character aligned with the culture we are creating. He also developed our compensation system enabling us to compete for talent.
It’s clear he thinks about the business which has helped us beyond HR needs. I recommend him.
“A strategic thinker beyond the role in HR”
Darcy was an integral member of our executive team who built capability that enabled us to grow at 30 plus percent year after year. He was the architect of our HR expertise that exists today beyond his time as an employee which has continued to enable our expansion across Canada and the US.
Darcy is a strategic thinker beyond the role in HR and was instrumental with each M&A. He further designed and delivered our leadership program helping us build a great team.
While he formed the basis of our compensation system, we have recently retained Darcy as consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of our compensation and benefits position. I plan to continue my relationship with Darcy and as such recommend and endorse his abilities to assist with business grow.
“Immensely helpful building out our global footprint”
We engaged Darcy on a referral from one of our founders. He has been immensely helpful in building out our global footprint and securing staff in Canada, the US and Australia. This involved crafting contracts, determining compensation, establishing benefits and complying with the regulatory requirements.
His experience and knowledge of the full spectrum of HR and various jurisdictions has enabled our business. We will continue to draw on his sound judgement and expertise and recommend him fully.
