Category Winners
Kathryn Britten Accountancy
It is a great honour to receive this award and I am grateful to all of my colleagues at BDO Stoy Hayward for their continuing encouragement and support for women at all levels throughout the firm. Recognising and nurturing female talent and female role-models has never been more important and I welcome and encourage initiatives that inspire others by raising awareness of the achievements and impact of women throughout the business world.
Kathryn Britten is National Head of Forensic Accounting at BDO Stoy Hayward LLP. She joined the firm in 1990 having trained with Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers) and after taking a 6 year career break to focus on her family. Kathryn became a partner in BDO Stoy Hayward in 1995 and leads a team of over 100 partners and staff in 7 national offices. Putting her vast range of experience in the field into practice, Kathryn has acted as an Expert Witness in over 200 disputes and regularly provides
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pre-action advisory services to parties considering litigation or arbitration. She is a fellow and member of the Council of the Academy of Experts; a member of the Expert Witness Institute and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a CEDR trained Mediator. Kathryn is a keen supporter and promoter of working arrangements that help achieve a balanced lifestyle. In recent years she was instrumental in inaugurating ‘The Work Life Balance Challenge Fund’ project at BDO Stoy Hayward, which led to the implementation
of major initiatives to give employees, especially women, greater flexibility in their working lives. As a member of the ICAEW’s Narrowing the Gap Steering Committee, which advises on issues relating to gender diversity in the accountancy profession, Kathryn contributes to the advice provided by the Institute for its members.