Nekisha Ladd

Nekisha Ladd is a cybersecurity consulting and business leadership professional and the Founder and CEO of Pavo Pluma Consulting LLC. With 24 years of experience spanning military service, human resources, and IT, her work focuses on human-centered cybersecurity, security awareness, stakeholder engagement, change management, security processes, and technology implementation, with an emphasis on practical and user-friendly security solutions for businesses. She began her career in military personnel (equivalent to HR) for four years including a deployment to Iraq, transitioned to corporate and government HR roles for about 10 years, then moved into IT where she became a subject matter expert through continuous learning. She founded her consulting firm in February 2025 to address complex people, process, and technology challenges across government and corporate sectors.