Nita Wade is a workforce development leader with more than 18 years of experience designing and delivering education, training, and professional development programs across public and private sectors. She is known for partnering with leaders to identify organizational challenges and implement practical, results‑driven workforce solutions. She currently serves as a Strategic Learning Performance Consultant with Skillsoft Professional Services.

Prior to Skillsoft, Nita supported workforce development initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expanding training access to 5.7 million users annually. Her career highlights include modernizing deployment readiness pipelines for warfighters across multiple bases, leading training programs benchmarked across global Air Force commands, increasing training system utilizations by 75% impacting skills development and workforce readiness, and managing more than $120M in government training contracts. She served 20 years in the US Air Force, retiring as a Senior Master Seargeant and she holds a BA in Organizational Management, an MBA, and is pursuing an MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.