Tina Sung

Tina Sung was most recently at the Partnership for Public Service where she was the Vice President for

Federal Executive Networks and prior to that, Vice President of Government Transformation and Agency Partnerships. In her 15+ years there she launched more than 20 products and services to help agencies become the “best place to work” by improving employee engagement, leadership, and operational excellence. Her efforts contributed to diversifying the Partnership’s revenue and scaling its growth from $5MM to $25MM. She set the gold standard for convenings with the most senior leaders in government and personally facilitated Deputy Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries for Administration and Management, the General Counsel Exchange, and Strategic Advisors to Government Executives. She coached and mentored hundreds of individuals and groups of appointees, senior executives, and staff to thrive and succeed in a complex federal ecosystem.

She was an integral part of the Center for Presidential Transition and developed a full life cycle of support for presidential appointees with Ready to Serve (a popular website), eleven modules in Ready to Govern (delivered in collaboration with the White House Office of Presidential Personnel), Ready to Act, and the latest, Ready to Exit to help appointees leave their agencies better than when they arrived.

She works extensively at the political-career interface and has years of multi-sector executive leadership experience, as well as a track record of innovation and accomplishment in every phase of her professional career. Her government experience includes key senior executive service positions in the Department of Health and Human Services overseeing regional human resource activities, the Social Security Administration in Operations, Systems, and Operations Analysis and Support, and as Executive Director of the Federal Quality Institute (FQI) at Treasury. Concurrent with her FQI service, she served as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award senior examiner for seven years and on the Vice President’s National Performance Review to Reinvent Government.

She is the immediate past president and CEO of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD, now known as the Association for Talent Development), the world’s leading association of professionals specializing in workplace learning and performance with 70,000 members from more than 100 countries connected through 150 chapters. There, she pivoted the focus from training and development to learning and performance and launched the ATD Certification Institute. Her private sector experience includes launching two companies, Synergy Works LLC and Experience Matters, the Executive Transition Experts, and serving on the board of Shambaugh, a women’s leadership company.

Tina is a Certified Association Executive, a National Association of Corporate Directors Certified Director, A World Academy of Productivity Science Fellow, and a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow. She co-founded the Asian American Government Executives Network and currently serves on the American Society of Association Executives Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI)Task Force to improve opportunities for AANHPI to assume leadership roles in nonprofits, and on the board of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at UCLA. She recently served on the Society for Human Resources Management Foundation where she co-chaired the Thought Leadership/Research to Practice Committee.

Tina graduated cum laude from Princeton University, earned a Master of Business Dynamics, completed Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Managers and the Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership and Management Program. She was selected for the prestigious President’s Executive Exchange Program sponsored by the White House. She was honored as a Fed 100 Winner for her work on Shared Services.