Manager of Global Diversity at GE Healthcare Systems, her office is in Waukesha, the home base of its 47,000 employees spread around the world. It is her "privilege" to assist the corporation in getting the job done even better by incorporating people from many countries, many languages, many skills and many points of view. The final product is richer by far because of the multitude of inputs. She says, "We reflect the world in employee makeup and we leverage our cultural differences."

Pearman lives in Menomonee Falls with her husband and is the daughter of a jazz musician. She initially studied music herself at Crane School of Music in upstate New York. She became interested in early childhood education during her junior year, which led to her involvement with the Head Start Program, and she graduated with an Early Childhood Education major. After years in education, she became interested in life and health insurance for women and worked in that industry. Eventually, those different strains led to one piece of what she would call beautiful music: her current job. Organizing seminars and assisting in the education of GE’s employees, she travels the world each year: France, U.K., India, Ghana and all points in the U.S.

Much of her personal community involvement revolves around her early love of education, especially math. She works through the Urban League with a program called Math Plus run in conjunction with Marquette University. "Kids need to know the importance and reality of math skills. One area we work on is getting the word out in the popular media. We also know by sixth grade, that children’s math ability eclipses their parents. Parents can no longer help with homework and so we work with both parents and children. I knew we were successful when I saw a child ask a teacher for an autograph."