Kudzai Consulting Group

Become Interview-Ready for GRC. Or Build the Security Program Your Company Needs.

Career changers and recent graduates become interview-ready by building work samples, learning the language of the field, and practicing how to explain and defend their decisions.

Small and mid-sized companies get practical ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST readiness support.

People preparing for careers in governance, risk, and compliance

How Dr. Shumba Can Help You

Begin Your First Work Sample

The Risk Register Weekend Challenge · one live weekend

Experience the profession, build five risk entries with coaching, and leave with work you can show a hiring manager and resume bullets written from it.

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Become Interview-Ready with a Complete Portfolio

The GRC Portfolio Studio · a six-month coaching program

Follow 10 guided steps with live coaching and feedback, and finish with connected work samples plus career preparation and group job search support.

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Prepare Your Company for ISO/IEC 27001 or NIST

GRC Advisory Services

Practical readiness support for small and mid-sized organizations: policies, risk processes, and the evidence customers, auditors, and assessors ask for.

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Meet Dr. Rose Shumba

Dr. Rose Shumba has spent more than 20 years preparing students and professionals for technology and cybersecurity careers.

She is a computing professor and cybersecurity educator, a former director of an NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, and holds a PhD in Computer Science and the PECB ISO/IEC 27001 Foundation credential. She founded Kudzai Consulting Group to help career changers build work they can show and to help companies build security programs they can use.

PhD in Computer Science 20+ years in cybersecurity education Former NSA/DHS CAE director PECB ISO/IEC 27001 Foundation
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Come to the Live Risk Register Weekend Challenge

Begin Your First Work Sample in One Weekend

Most career changers stay stuck because they keep studying instead of building. In five live hours across one weekend, you will build five risk entries with Dr. Shumba coaching you while you work, and leave with work you can show and resume bullets written from it.

August 29 and 30, 2026 · 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET · General $97 · VIP $197

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A Message From Dr. Shumba

I have watched talented people circle the edge of cybersecurity for years. They collect credentials and wait to feel ready.

Readiness grows when you build professional work samples, understand your decisions, and practice explaining them. That is what I help people do.

Iron sharpens iron.

Dr. Rose Shumba