EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.
How EY can help
-
Helping top leaders to achieve peak performance, professionally and personally, by providing insights and networking opportunities.
Read more
Learn to balance career and personal life
Yvonne values personal fulfillment and family as highly as professional success, and she’s learned how important it is to make this point known.
“Family is my priority, and Dell is an enabler to me having a great family.”
Yvonne is the executive sponsor of two of Dell’s employee resource groups — Family Balance and Women in Action Network, which she helped found more than 20 years ago.
Today, when asked to give advice to young women looking to make it to the highest levels of success, Yvonne advises them first to be great at their job, whatever that job is, and don’t rush.
“Your career is really long. Don’t rush things — and that includes how you define success. No one has the same career journey.”
On top of that, she adds, make sure you communicate your aspirations clearly.
“What I learned later in my career that I wish I had known earlier was, you shouldn’t assume someone knows what you want to do in your career or that they know what you’re interested in.”
A few years after she returned from Canada, another international assignment arose for Yvonne — this time in Singapore, another opportunity she didn’t want to pass up. Now she had three kids: a kindergartener, a senior in high school and one in college at the University of Texas.
“When I went to Singapore, I absolutely played the cards differently.”
She agreed to the move for two years. She navigated cultural differences and remote relationships, exposing her to a whole new world of organizational dynamics, and an appreciation for working in others’ time zones.