Microfinance Focus, August 9, 2011: Women’s World Banking (WWB) has formed a partnership with KPMG Europe LLP (KPMG), a global network of audit, tax and advisory firms, to host and collaborate on WWB’s Women in Leadership Program.

Under this collaboration, KPMG will be hosting the Women in Leadership Workshop taking place in fall 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The program will include participants from microfinance institutions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The goal of the engagement is to develop and encourage senior women leaders in the microfinance industry and leverage KPMG’s own senior women as long-term peer mentors to the workshop participants from microfinance institutions across the globe.

Through the one-year mentoring relationship with their KPMG counterparts, the microfinance women leaders will have access to ongoing support as they experiment with new leadership skills and actualize their leadership vision.

This program also affords high performing KPMG women access to a formal mentoring training program, conducted by KPMG’s Learning and Development Team.