Yolanda is a purpose-driven leader with 15+ years of building high-growth startups with companies such as Uber, Deliveroo, and Rocket Internet. Originally from Canada, she has lived and worked in every single continent, with the exception of South America, and is currently based in Singapore.
At 18, Yolanda rented an abandoned industrial warehouse in her hometown of Toronto and got artists like Daft Punk and Major Lazer to play there by messaging them on Myspace. She went on to intern at the European Court for Human Rights and graduated top of her class at Oxford. Her early career included launching and leading the team for a Rocket Internet food startup in West Africa and working in market launch for Uber in Sub-Saharan Africa. After 3 years on the African continent, Yolanda expanded her experience to Asia where she built the Deliveroo partnerships team across APAC and the Middle East.
Yolanda prides herself in her brave and unconventional approach to success and a lifelong growth mindset. She embraced entrepreneurship by setting up her own company, Uncommon, born out of her own experience as a female leader. Uncommon aims to build a more inclusive future of work through offering a private leadership network for women in Southeast Asia and beyond. It provides a strong and uplifting network of senior industry leaders, a personalized development roadmap, executive group coaching, masterclass workshops, and an enriching speaker series, all in one membership.
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