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Strategy and Change
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Strategy and Change

by Aaron K. Olson, Ward Ching, Richard Waterer, B. Keith Simerson
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 53m
English
Wiley
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About the Authors

Aaron K. Olson is executive vice president at Aon, a global professional services firm focused on risk and people, with responsibility for business planning and strategic initiatives. He has over 25 years of experience in the areas of corporate strategy, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development and has consulted with organizations in multiple industries around the world. He served as adjunct faculty at Northwestern University for over 10 years, where he taught graduate courses on strategy and leadership. Aaron has written for various publications including Harvard Business Review, CEO, and Investor Business Daily. His first book, Leading with Strategic Thinking, was published by Wiley in 2015.

Ward Ching is an adjunct professor of risk management at the University of Southern California Marshall Business School, where he teaches courses in enterprise risk management and disruptive risk innovation. Ward leads the strategic solutions and innovation practice at Aon, where he focuses on client risk strategy development, advanced decision analytics, and alternative risk finance. He has nearly 50 years of general management consulting and business strategy experience and has worked with a number of Fortune 100 clients to solve complex risk financing problems. Ward is also the chairman of the RIMS Certified Risk Management Commission, which seeks to train and certify the next generation of enterprise professionals. He has written extensively on the ...

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ISBN: 9781119988717