Written to Challenge How You Think and Lead
My writing varies between security, leadership, and personal development. Whether you are an executive navigating organizational risk, a leader building a high-performance team, or someone looking to find their drive and build something more, there is something here for you.
Driven (mostly) Every Day: Finding Your Drive and Building Something More
This book is for anyone who has ever felt like they were falling short of their own expectations. Not because they lacked talent or ambition, but because they were waiting to feel ready, waiting to feel driven, waiting for the right moment. Driven (mostly) Every Day is a candid, practical look at what drive actually is, where it comes from, and how to build it deliberately, one mostly-good day at a time.
“Aaron has written a memoir with no victim and no hero in it, just a person doing the next necessary thing, year after year. He doesn’t ask you to admire him, and that is precisely why you do. He reports the hard years plainly, claims no special suffering, and never pauses to collect sympathy he could easily have taken. The result is a first-person account that feels earned rather than performed. You finish it certain that the kid figuring things out alone was already the leader he would become.”
– Kaushik Hatti, PhD., CISO
“Generational knowledge. Younger generations often ask, “How did you get where you are?” and the answer can sometimes feel like “luck.” But fortune favors the prepared, and that is what Aaron so clearly shows in this book. From a difficult beginning, through Marine Corps boot camp, commercial IT trench experience, and the hard-earned ability to identify gaps in both the environment and himself, Aaron lays out the preparation, decisions, and discipline that shaped his path to becoming a CISO. This short book makes it clear that luck is not enough. It shows the how, where, and why behind the choice we make, and how preparation over time is what ultimately moves us forward in our careers and in our lives.”
-Cody Burrows, CISO
The CISO's Ground: A Strategic Foundation for Cybersecurity Leadership
Most security programs are not built. They accumulate. The CISO’s Ground changes that. Built around three proprietary frameworks developed across over a decade of leading security programs in some of the world’s most complex organizations, this book gives security leaders and practitioners the structured foundation most programs are built without. Whether you are preparing to step into the CISO role or looking for a more rigorous way to assess and advance what you have already built, this book gives you the thinking tools to do it, without handing you a script. The work of building the right program for your organization, your risk profile, and your constraints is yours to do. This book gives you the ground to build it on.
Co-Authored Work
Currently in the final stages of publication. Details and purchase information will be available upon release.
