Aaron Poh

I’m Aaron Poh, a fractional COO, strategic advisor, entrepreneur, and founder of Aspen Strategy Group, helping leaders turn strategy into clear priorities, aligned teams, and consistent execution.

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Aaron Poh's Experience:

• Executive Director & Founder at Aspen Strategy Collective

  January 2026 - Present | Aspen, CO & Washington, DC

  Aaron founded Aspen Strategy Collective as a platform for leaders, operators, strategists, and entrepreneurs who want to become more disciplined about turning strategy into execution. The Collective brings together practical frameworks, tools, coaching, accountability, learning experiences, and community to help professionals improve how they prioritize, make decisions, lead teams, and execute.

• Founder & CEO at Aspen Strategy Group LLC

  December 2024 - Present | Aspen, CO & Washington, DC

  Aaron founded Aspen Strategy Group to help leaders bridge the gap between strategy and execution. He works with executives, founders, leadership teams, associations, nonprofits, and growing businesses on challenges including: * Strategic planning and execution * Fractional COO and executive operations * Operating model and organizational design * Organizational effectiveness * Business and enterprise transformation * Leadership alignment and accountability * OKRs, performance management, and governance * Process improvement and operating discipline * Workforce and organizational planning * Change management His work is designed to move beyond recommendations and establish the systems, ownership, operating rhythms, and decision structures required to execute effectively.

• Fractional COO & Strategic Advisor at Independent and Client Engagements

  December 2024 - Present

  Aaron serves organizations in fractional COO, strategic advisor, and transformation leadership capacities. His engagements often focus on organizations experiencing growth, organizational complexity, leadership transitions, unclear roles and accountability, inefficient operating processes, or difficulty translating strategic priorities into execution. He works alongside CEOs and executive teams to establish greater clarity around priorities, organizational structure, decision rights, performance, operating cadence, and execution.

• Strategy, Transformation & Finance Leadership at FINRA

  | Washington, DC

  At FINRA, Aaron worked within the Office of the CFO across enterprise strategy, finance transformation, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, and operating model initiatives. His work included leading and supporting efforts to: * Improve financial operating processes and shorten cycle times * Redesign organizational structures and clarify accountability * Align workforce investments with strategic priorities * Establish stronger planning, governance, and performance disciplines * Lead technology-enabled finance transformation * Identify opportunities for cost efficiency and capacity reinvestment * Translate enterprise priorities into executable initiatives

• Strategy & Transformation - North America at Sodexo

  Aaron worked on enterprise transformation and strategic initiatives at Sodexo, supporting priorities spanning growth, operational efficiency, talent, digital transformation, organizational effectiveness, and business performance. His work included helping translate enterprise strategy into initiatives, roadmaps, governance structures, and transformation programs across a complex global organization.

• Strategy & Management Consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton

  Aaron began his consulting career at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he advised government and commercial organizations on strategy, transformation, organizational effectiveness, technology strategy, and operating improvement. His work evolved from enterprise architecture and technology strategy into broader business transformation and executive advisory roles. Assignments included: * Supporting the creation of a U.S. Air Force Chief Data Office and its multi-year transformation roadmap * Advising executive leaders on strategy, organization, and transformation * Supporting commercial consulting leadership with strategic planning and business operations * Developing operating models, governance structures, and implementation roadmaps * Supporting post-acquisition integration * Evaluating investment priorities and growth opportunities * Leading cross-functional consulting teams

• Corporate Strategy at Hilton Worldwide

Aaron Poh's Education:

• Duke University

  2013 – 2015
  Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Engineering Management
  Concentration: Supply Chain and Operations

• The Johns Hopkins University

  2009 – 2013
  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
  Concentration: Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics Double Major, Minor:Entrepreneurship & Management

• The Johns Hopkins University

  2007 – 2007
  Non-Degree
  Concentration: Biochemistry

• University of Denver

  2006 – 2006
  Non-Degree
  Concentration: Engineering

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