Fresh by Friska is a change management consultancy that helps organisations, and the individuals within them, more readily accept and thrive through change.

Friska Wirya brings digital transformation to life by accelerating adoption and building digital proficiency at scale, having worked for some of the biggest names in mining, engineering and technology. A change and transformation expert for nearly a decade, she’s led programs influencing up to 23,000 people across the seven continents. She headed up change at Newcrest Mining, the largest gold miner on the ASX, leading its digital transformation changes to achieve significant financial and innovation outcomes, winning the 2018 METS Ignited Collaboration Award and several other innovation rankings. Prior to this, Friska was the Global Change Lead for multi-million dollar projects at engineering giant Worley, and built the change management practice at Fujitsu.

Her expertise has been sought after at Women in Leadership Asia, Future of Mining Sydney, Female Influencers in Tech, Contino’s The Tech Leadership Panel, Women in Mining & Energy Indonesia, Minerals Week Canberra, Mining Leaders Forum Perth, MEC Mining’s Digital Transformation series and AusIMM’s Digital Disruption bulletin. Friska is also a featured contributor to The Future Shapers, Thrive Global and Delivering Happiness and has been published in The Australian HR Institute.