The Life of Pear: A Female Millennial Leader

3 Patterns That Helped Me Thrive In My Career

Here’re a few patterns that I’ve picked up along the way that has thankfully helped me create a path (to hopefully success!) in whatever career paths get paved in front of me.

pearlyn yeoApril 28, 2024leadership, career, marketing

How to successfully transition into a Functional Leader

Here are some of my key learning points and thoughts provided to me by different leaders that I’ve spoken to about my career journey.

pearlyn yeoMarch 10, 2024leadership, marketing, learning

4 Inspiring and Empowering Women Leader Quotes

As I reflected on my own leadership journey, I took some time to revisit some of the inspirational people and quotes that have guided and served as pertinent reminders when things get tough (and they always will!).

pearlyn yeoFebruary 12, 2024leadership, marketing, learning

Horizontal vs Vertical Growth: What's your take?

Principally, horizontal and vertical learning are 2 very different skillsets, and how you approach it is very much dependent on not just your own objectives but also the environment in which you grew up in.

pearlyn yeoJanuary 1, 2024growth

3 Key Takeaways on How I Pivoted my Career

Here are some of the learnings I’ve had so far in my continuous pursuit of embracing the unknown of transiting into a new role

pearlyn yeoNovember 25, 2023growth, marketing

3 key learnings from a new team

Having been a Circles employee from the beginning, I didn’t think too much when I voluntarily accepted the shift, thinking it wasn’t going to be much of a difference versus what I’ve gone through in my past 7 years.

pearlyn yeoSeptember 16, 2023team, newbusiness, growth, jetpac

3 Important Learnings As A New Leader

When we go through our career journeys, we inevitably go through ups and downs, and here are some learnings as a new leader.

pearlyn yeoJuly 2, 2023

3 ways to continuously engage your team(s)

I’ve been holding to a few teams for awhile, namely Design, Content, CRM as well as Web Development. Many have commented - this is a broad portfolio, how do you manage…etc. While I completely acknowledge the fact of matter that it IS alot & I’m working on fixing it, I’ve taken some time to reflect on how I grew these teams & how I sustained my energy (lol) spanning across them.

pearlyn yeoApril 2, 2023leadership, growth, teams, engageemnt

Why am I, the way I am?

I’ve recently taken a personality and strengths test and gotten my results from it. This has actually given me very clear insights as to Why I am the way I am.

pearlyn yeoFebruary 26, 2023learning

4 ways to keep up with a growing startup

We all know that being in a startup can be stressful, frustrating, and overwhelming…but it can also be fulfilling, exciting and refreshing. How does one manage the evolving stages of a 0 to 1 startup, and beyond? What works, what doesn’t?

pearlyn yeoDecember 10, 2022startup

Tips and tricks on working with Gen Zs

We’re in a different corporate world today where we see many of our workforce has a median age of 24,25. 25?! It’s true. Especially in a startup environment, we typically have a lot of younger, energetic colleagues who are crucial for the next generation of success in the company.

pearlyn yeoOctober 23, 2022genz, work, culture

How I transited from an Individual Contributor to a Manager

It was a mindset that took awhile to apprehend, and apply, but I’m glad I managed to do so, as it has enabled so many people around me to grow.

pearlyn yeoSeptember 11, 2022career, management, growth