Fifteen women have successfully completed the second cohort of the KPMG Fiji’s ‘It’s Her Future’ program — a two-day training initiative designed to build and offer ways to introduce females to careers in technology where women are underrepresented.
Speaking to the media after the training last week, KPMG Fiji managing partner Lisa Apted said the accounting firm was excited to have hosted the tech session for young women who see themselves with a future in technology.
“This is the second year we have held the program, very successful for us — this gives an opportunity for women in a field where it’s not traditionally theirs,” Ms Apted said.
Facilitator of the program, KPMG Australia technology lead Fiona Glaskin said the program was an exciting time for the participants who showed a lot of interest in what she had to share during the training.
She said the participants were engaged in intensive sessions such as mock interviews for a job or debates, had critical discussions, introduced to people in roles they aspired, showed and trained in everything they needed to be a woman in technology.
“The program evolves year on year because of the great feedback we’ve had from past participants,” Ms Glaskin said.
“The key difference between last and this year would be that we had women in the program last year who have returned to work for us.
“So being able to bring them back to the participants to share their experience really reflects on the effectiveness of the program.”
Participants were final year university students Shreshtha Sharma, Ilisabeta Vitukawalu, Tanya Molia, Cheyennce Godson and Sisilia Singh, who spoke to this newspaper and expressed their gratitude towards the program.
They said the program was an “eye opening experience” and that they will apply their newly acquired knowledge into their various lines of technology work.
Note: This article was first published on the print version of the Fiji Times dated July 21, 2025
