Preeti was a graduate when she joined the IT’s Her Future programme in 2017, an initiative to improve gender diversity at KPMG. As part of the programme, she dedicated herself to driving inclusion for women, both within and outside KPMG. Since 2019, Preeti has led the Juniors workstream which is aimed at younger women outside of KPMG, to help tackle the gender diversity issue within technology. Preeti leads various events for students aged 10-18, such as bespoke primary school technology workshops, insight events with a long-term mentoring scheme and reunion events to ensure that students are kept engaged. Preeti has also supported and promoted the national roll-out of the internal KPMG mentoring for IT audit females. Preeti is an inclusion and diversity ambassador at KPMG, training and advocating existing and new D&I workstreams and supporting IT’s Her Future’s mission, which, in the past 5 years, has seen its efforts result in an increase in female headcount from 26% to 42%.
