Curious Conversations with Special Guest Phei Sunn - Season 2/Episode 15

In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Phei Sunn. Phei Sunn is currently Director, Transformation Office at the Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore, where she drives organisational transformation efforts by aligning strategy and risk governance, building culture and capabilities for transformation, and developing strong leaders and a supportive ecosystem for innovation and learning. She also co-leads the Environmental Sustainability Secretariat which provides oversight on sustainability workstreams across LTA. She currently contributes as a public sector career coach, action learning facilitator for public sector organisational development programmes, and serves as a pro-bono Board member with the HSD Institute. Phei Sunn is also an active session designer and/or facilitator in many citizen-engagement projects. As part of giving back to the community, she regularly conducts facilitation refresher workshops for fellow colleagues. Over her 20+ years span in the Singapore Public Service, Phei Sunn has also worked on portfolios such as trade policy, manpower development, and strategic foresight. Prior to LTA, she was Principal Consultant at Civil Service College, Institute of Leadership and Organisational Development (CSC/ILOD), where she supported public sector projects in the areas of change, visioning, culture building, and leadership conversations; facilitated training workshops on organisation design, teaming, organisational development and change. Phei Sunn holds a Masters in Social-Organisational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, a Masters in Public Administration from the LKY School of Public Policy (Best Capstone Paper), and a Bachelors (Hons) in Economics from the National University of Singapore. She has a graduate diploma from the NTL-CSC Organisational Development Practitioner Certificate Programme, is a certified Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Professional in working with complex adaptive systems, and certified Prosci change practitioner. Outside of work, Phei Sunn is an avid ultra-endurance athlete and mountaineer. She loves being in nature, and running ultra-distances in the trails. She climbed Mt. Everest in 2019, and became the 3rd Singaporean to complete the Seven Summits (scaling the highest peak in each continent) in Dec 2021. In 2023, she successfully scaled Mt. K2, the second highest peak in the world, and became one of the first Singaporean females to do so.