Free four-session live career series | August 15–September 5, 2026
Kudzai Consulting Group
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Free four-session live career series
Start Here: Free Non-Coding Cybersecurity Career Series
See where your experience may fit, watch a realistic assignment take shape, and learn how to plan, build, and explain your first work sample.
This series was created from a survey of 53 career changers, recent graduates, and IT professionals exploring Governance, Risk, and Compliance and other non-coding cybersecurity careers.
You do not need to know the role names before attending. The series begins by showing you the field and the work.
The complete live schedule
Four Sessions. One Connected Path.
What Does the Job Actually Look Like?
Sunday, August 23 | 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. ETPlan Your First Work Sample
Saturday, August 29 | 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. ETHow to Build and Defend Work Employers Can Review
Saturday, September 5 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ETThe questions raised by aspiring cybersecurity professionals
The Series Begins Before You Choose a Role
A survey of 53 career changers, recent graduates, and IT professionals identified several common needs. Almost half had not started because they did not know where to begin, and seven in ten wanted a clear, step-by-step path.
Participants wanted to know:
What is non-coding cybersecurity, and what types of work are included?
Where can someone with my education and experience begin?
What does the work look like during a normal assignment?
How can I gain practical experience and create work an employer can review?
How do I explain my work on a resume and during an interview?
You will explore the field and identify possible directions.
You will connect a job responsibility to the work an employee performs.
You will plan a focused work sample.
You will see how a complete work sample is built, checked, explained, and used in the job search.
A clearer way to begin
Progress Begins When You Can See the Work
Information about certifications, tools, and job titles can be useful. It becomes more useful when you understand how it connects to the work an employee is expected to perform.
That is the path this free series will introduce.
01
Learn what types of work exist.
02
See how one assignment is completed.
03
Choose a focused piece of work to build.
04
Learn how to explain and defend your decisions.
05
Translate the completed work into job-search language.
Four sessions. One connected path.
What Each Session Covers
Session 01
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET
Not Sure Where to Start?
Saturday, August 1511:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET
Explore the field and identify a possible direction.
You may be interested in cybersecurity without knowing the different areas of non-coding work.
During this session, you will:
- Learn what non-coding cybersecurity means
- Explore work involving governance, risk, compliance, policy, audit, privacy, vendors, security awareness, and access decisions
- See examples of what professionals in these areas produce
- Identify skills that may transfer from healthcare, finance, education, operations, administration, project management, IT, and other fields
- Use the Cyber Role Finder to compare possible directions
- Select two or three areas to investigate further
You will leave with: a shortlist of possible career directions and a practical next step.
Session 02
4:00 to 5:00 p.m. ET
What Does the Job Actually Look Like?
Sunday, August 234:00 to 5:00 p.m. ET
Connect a job responsibility to the work an employee performs.
Job postings list responsibilities, but they rarely show the full assignment behind those responsibilities.
During this session, we will:
- Review current job postings
- Identify responsibilities that appear repeatedly
- Select one responsibility and turn it into a realistic assignment
- Examine the business situation the employee may receive
- Identify the documents, records, and other evidence the employee may review
- Walk through the decisions the employee may need to make
- Examine the document or work product a manager would review
- Discuss the questions the employee should be able to answer about the work
You will complete a one-page Job Responsibility to Work Map connecting:
Job responsibility → assignment → evidence → decisions → completed work
You will leave with: a clearer picture of what one non-coding cybersecurity responsibility looks like in practice.
Session 03
10:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET
Plan Your First Work Sample
Saturday, August 2910:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET
Turn what you have learned into a First Work Sample Plan.
This will be a guided working session, not an open-ended question-and-answer hour.
Bring your Cyber Role Finder results, your Job Responsibility to Work Map, and the questions you have developed during the series.
During the guided portion, you will:
- Choose one responsibility to demonstrate
- Define a realistic business situation
- Identify the evidence or information you would need
- Decide what document or work product you would create
- List the decisions the work sample should show
- Identify the assumptions you may need to make
- Prepare questions you should be able to answer about your reasoning
- Decide how the completed work could be described in a portfolio, resume, or interview
You will complete a first draft of your First Work Sample Plan.
The final 10 minutes will be used for focused questions about your direction, assignment, and next step.
You will leave with: a written plan defining what your first work sample should contain and what you should be prepared to explain.
Keep moving between the live sessions
Two Short Work Sample Prompts
You will not be left without direction between August 29 and September 5.
Registered participants will receive two short email prompts to help them continue developing the First Work Sample Plan.
Each prompt should take about 10 to 15 minutes. Bring your completed prompts to the September 5 session.
Choose the business problem.
Confirm the responsibility you want to demonstrate and the situation your work sample will address.
Define the evidence, completed work, and reasoning.
Identify what information you would review, what document or work product you would create, and what decision or recommendation you should be prepared to explain.
Session 04
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET
How to Build and Defend Work Employers Can Review
Saturday, September 511:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET
See how a complete work sample comes together and how to explain it.
During this session, we will walk through one complete example from the business situation to the finished work: a short vendor security review, so you can see the full anatomy of a defensible work sample.
You will learn how to:
- Check that the work sample addresses a clear business problem
- Show what evidence and information were reviewed
- Separate facts, assumptions, and decisions
- Explain how the completed work supports a business decision
- Record your reasoning in a Decision Brief
- Prepare for questions about your choices and recommendation
- Turn the experience into a portfolio description, resume bullet, and interview story
- Choose the next step for building your own work sample
You will use a Work Sample Quality and Defense Checklist to review the example and your own First Work Sample Plan.
You will leave with: a checklist for building and explaining your work and a clear next step for completing your first work sample.
Four practical results
Leave With More Than Notes
By the end of the series, you will have:
A shortlist of non-coding cybersecurity areas to explore
A Job Responsibility to Work Map showing what one role responsibility looks like in practice
A First Work Sample Plan defining what you can build next
A Work Sample Quality and Defense Checklist
A clearer way to connect your experience, practical work, and job search
Build more than a completed template
The GRC Build-and-Defend Method™
The series introduces a three-step method for developing practical work you understand and can explain.
Learn It
Understand the company situation and learn the GRC concepts needed to complete the assignment.
Build and Defend It
Use evidence, instructions, and templates to create a focused piece of work, record your reasoning, and prepare to answer questions about your decisions.
Use It to Get Hired
Turn the completed work into a portfolio description, resume bullet, LinkedIn project, and interview story.
Learn it. Build and defend it. Use it to get hired.
Managers need to see the completed work. They also need to hear how you reached your decisions and why your recommendation makes sense.
Guided practice after the free series
Live Risk Register Weekend Challenge
After the free series, you may decide that you are ready to build and defend a focused Governance, Risk, and Compliance work sample.
The optional paid Live Risk Register Weekend Challenge will take place on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, 2026.
Using evidence from TechFlow, a realistic fictional company, participants will complete a focused risk register and Decision Brief with live instruction, feedback, and opportunities to explain their decisions.
The Challenge is optional. Details will be shared during and after the free series.
I created this series to make non-coding cybersecurity work easier to see, understand, practice, and explain.
Live instruction from an experienced cybersecurity educator
Meet Dr. Rose Shumba
I have spent more than 20 years in cybersecurity education and have helped hundreds of students and professionals prepare for technology careers.
My experience includes:
- Directing a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, designated by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security
- Teaching Cyber Science at the U.S. Naval Academy
- Serving as a program director and associate dean for graduate programs
- Beginning my technology career as a software engineer
- Helping career changers, graduates, and professionals prepare for cybersecurity careers
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the series free?
Yes. There is no charge to attend the four live sessions. Registration is required.
Do I need to know which cybersecurity role I want?
No. Session 1 introduces different areas of non-coding cybersecurity and helps you identify possible directions.
Do I need a coding or technical background?
No. The series focuses on cybersecurity work involving business decisions, risk, policies, compliance, evidence, and communication. Basic computer skills and a willingness to learn are all you need.
Do I need to register for each session?
No. One registration covers the complete four-session series.
Do the sessions build on one another?
Yes. Session 1 helps you identify possible directions. Session 2 shows how a job responsibility becomes actual work. Session 3 helps you plan a work sample. Session 4 shows how to build, check, explain, and defend that work.
Is Session 3 an open question-and-answer session?
No. It is a guided working session. The final 10 minutes are reserved for focused questions about your work-sample plan and next step.
What happens between August 29 and September 5?
You will receive two short email prompts that help you continue developing your First Work Sample Plan. Each prompt should take about 10 to 15 minutes. Bring the completed prompts to Session 4.
Will I complete a full portfolio piece during the free series?
You will complete a First Work Sample Plan and use a complete example to learn how strong work is built and defended. The optional paid Challenge provides guided time to build and defend a focused risk-register work sample.
Is the paid Challenge required?
No. The free series provides its own complete results. The Challenge is an optional next step for people who want guided practice building a risk-register work sample.
See the Work and Choose Your Next Step
Across four free live sessions, you will explore the field, see what one responsibility looks like in practice, prepare a plan for your first work sample, and learn how to build and defend the completed work.
Complete the registration form at the top of this page to reserve your seat.
