S5:E194🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic, DIT

S5:E194🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic, DIT

Cybersecurity Audit, Agility, AI & the Discipline of Lifelong Learning

Mark your calendars!

The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — S5:E194 goes LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic—cybersecurity educator, author, audit and risk leader, and lifelong learner whose career spans more than three decades across technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk management, and education.

📅 Tuesday, September 29, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 9:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!

🌟 Meet My Guest

Dr. Linda Kostic has built a remarkable career at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, audit, risk, governance, education, and now artificial intelligence.

Her leadership journey includes senior roles with Citi, T. Rowe Price, Transamerica, and E*TRADE Financial, where she helped organizations navigate cybersecurity and technology audit, enterprise and operational risk, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and major transformation initiatives.

Today, Linda serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), teaching undergraduate and graduate students while bringing decades of real-world experience into the classroom.

But what I find particularly compelling about Linda's story is her commitment to lifelong learning.

Throughout her career, she has repeatedly accepted assignments in areas she had not yet mastered—and then learned, built, led, and ultimately helped others grow.

Learn. Build. Develop Others. Leave It Better.

That is leadership. ❤️🙏🏾

📘 Featured Conversation: Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We will explore Linda's 2026 book, Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and an increasingly important question:

How can Agile practices and AI transform cybersecurity auditing while preserving the professional judgment, critical thinking, accountability, and human oversight that effective assurance requires?

We will discuss where AI can reduce administrative burden, improve audit efficiency, strengthen analysis and enable auditors to spend more time on what humans do best—asking difficult questions, exercising judgment, understanding risk, communicating insight, and helping organizations make better decisions.

🎓 What You Will Learn…

✨ Why lifelong learning is a discipline, not simply a slogan.

✨ How Linda went from accounting into technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk, and AI—and what leaders can learn from repeatedly stepping into unfamiliar territory.

✨ Why leaders don't need to know everything before accepting a difficult assignment—but they must know how to learn.

✨ How Agile methodologies and AI can reshape cybersecurity auditing.

✨ Where AI can augment auditors—and where human judgment and accountability must remain essential.

✨ How organizations can move from periodic, process-heavy auditing toward more agile, data-informed and continuous approaches to assurance.

✨ Why developing people, not merely processes and technology, is essential to sustainable transformation.

✨ What Linda has learned from three decades of leadership—and what today's cybersecurity and AI professionals should be learning now.

📚 Explore Linda's book: ⁠Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)⁠

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got questions for Dr. Linda Kostic about leadership, cybersecurity audit, Agile, AI, risk, education, or lifelong learning? Post them below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

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👇 Your Turn:

✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

✨ Tag a colleague who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾