Authors

Aaron K. Olson

Aaron is Executive Vice President at Aon, where he has held various leadership roles focused on client engagement, corporate strategy, organizational effectiveness, and talent management. Aaron serves as adjunct faculty at Northwestern University teaching graduate and executive courses on strategy and leadership.

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Ward ching

Ward 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 led the Strategic Solutions and Innovation Practice at Aon, where he focused on client risk strategy development, advanced decision analytics and alternative risk finance.

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Richard waterer

Richard is the Global Risk Consulting Leader at Aon. In this role, he is responsible for leading a team of 1500 full-time risk consultants, helping clients to identify and quantify risk, select and implement strategies around risk transfer, retention and mitigation, and provides post-loss consulting.

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B. Keith simerson, Ed.D.

B.K. provides consultation, executive coaching, and advisory services in the areas of strategic leadership and strategy formulation and execution. He is on the adjunct faculty of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy where he teaches graduate courses on strategy and leadership.

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