Trust Hacked by Nia Luckey redefines leadership for the digital age, framing trust not as a soft skill but as critical infrastructure. Drawing on her military and cybersecurity background, Nia presents the Trust Protocol, a strategic, actionable framework modeled on cybersecurity principles. The book argues that trust, like a firewall, must be systematically designed, monitored, and maintained.

Through compelling stories and practical tools, Luckey explores three core pillars: Authentication (proving credibility through consistency), Encryption (creating psychological safety), and Resilience (planning for inevitable trust breaches). She provides leaders with diagnostics, playbooks, and rituals to embed trust into daily operations, teams, and organizational culture. The final chapters address leading through AI and automation, emphasizing ethical oversight and human judgment.

Trust Hacked is a battle-tested guide for building antifragile organizations where trust is engineered to withstand pressure, recover from failure, and become a lasting competitive advantage.

Nia Luckey translates military-grade trust protocols to modern leadership. Her path was nonlinear, beginning with the exacting discipline of classical flute. That foundation in practice and precision later anchored her through very different challenges: first in the U.S. Army, where trust meant survival, and later within Fortune 500 enterprises, where its breakdown carried a different but severe cost.