Olaf Rughase holds a Doctor of Economics and Management (Dr. rer. pol). He studied in Hamburg (Germany), Witten (Germany), Fullerton (California, USA) and Boulder (Colorado, USA). He graduated at the University of Witten/Herdecke (Dipl. oec.) as well as at the Hamburg University for Economics and Politics (Dipl.-Betriebswirt). Since 1998, he is working as a strategy consultant. In 2001, he founded Schindl Rughase Partners, Germany, which focuses on strategic change facilitation. His main fields of activity are strategic re-orientation, integrations following mergers and acquisitions, growth-oriented change, and business model innovations. Prior to his facilitation activities, he worked for Deutsche Bank Germany and several other companies in Germany and the United States. His research interests include business model design, strategic change, cognitive contributions to strategy theory and roles of consultants/facilitators in strategic change processes.