Tereza Scott has international award for governance, risk and compliance

Tereza Scott has been named Educator of the Year at the Women in Governance, Risk and Compliance Awards 2026 in recognition of her contributions to education and mentoring in governance, risk management and compliance. She leads the KPMG Business Institute training centre, where she established the KPMG Compliance Management Programme, the first comprehensive training programme of its kind for compliance professionals in the Czech Republic. Tereza also developed a methodology for assessing the maturity of compliance management systems.

The award is presented by Women in Governance, Risk and Compliance (WGRC), a global initiative dedicated to supporting and connecting women working in governance, risk management and compliance. This year’s awards attracted more than 400 nominations from around the world across 26 categories. The winners were chosen by a panel of 18 leading experts in the field. Tereza is the first recipient from the Czech Republic to receive the award.

“I am truly honoured to receive this award. It represents international recognition of the quality of the training programme that my colleagues and I have developed. Most of our instructors are KPMG professionals, and we place strong emphasis on practical learning, drawing on real-life experience from dozens of projects. Our approach goes beyond knowledge of legislation, also focusing on market standards across a wide range of industries,” says Tereza.

About Tereza Scott

Tereza has been with KPMG since 2014. She focuses on projects involving risk management, compliance, internal audit and the design of internal control frameworks. She specialises in the design, implementation and assessment of compliance management systems (CMS) and is the author of a methodology for evaluating their maturity and alignment with the Czech Corporate Criminal Liability Act and ISO 37301:2021.

She has also been involved in implementing regulatory requirements in the areas of GDPR, Solvency II, MiFID II and AML. Throughout her career, she has worked with financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, healthcare organisations, manufacturing companies and entities in the energy sector.

About the KPMG Business Institute

Established in 2014, KPMG Business Institute (KBI) has since trained nearly 7,000 professionals from more than 1,000 companies across a wide range of industries. KBI offers both open-enrolment courses for individuals and bespoke training programmes tailored to the specific needs of organisations.

Its most popular courses focus on financial management, accounting, and regulation in the banking and insurance sectors. More than 100 professionals from over 80 companies have completed the KPMG Compliance Management Programme. KBI also provides training in leadership, change management, psychological resilience and other essential soft skills.

KBI also provides comprehensive diagnostics and optimisation of learning and development programmes for other organisations.

“We help organisations that are struggling to align internal training programmes with corporate objectives and the KPIs of different employee groups. At the same time, we ensure that the return on their investment in learning and development can be measured,” Tereza explains.

Czech and Slovak KBI teams join forces

KBI delivers training projects not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Slovakia and other Central European countries. This year, the Czech and Slovak KBI operations merged and will now be led jointly by Tereza.

“The Czech and Slovak KBI teams had already been working closely together. By fully integrating our teams and expertise, we can now offer a broader portfolio of courses in both countries. Today, most of our training programmes are delivered in a hybrid or fully online format, for example for employees of multinational corporations working across different countries,” Tereza explains.

At the same time, KBI is increasingly focusing on long-term learning and development. “One-off training sessions are beneficial when they complement expertise in a specific area. For lasting success, however, organisations need regular, multifaceted and systematic learning and development, and we can help both design and deliver such programmes,” Tereza concludes.