2025 Speaker's Profile

Sunny Yan
Senior HR Director, Culture & Transformation
The Coca-Cola Company
Sunny Yan currently serves as the Senior HR Director, Culture & Transformation at Coca-Cola ASEAN and South Pacific Region, driving the culture transformation and people strategies, focused on creating an environment where employees can thrive, and equips the organisation to win.
A strategic thinker and culture builder, Sunny is known for her contributions to transforming businesses through people-centric practices across the APAC region. With her diverse experience in various regional and local business environments, she has consistently produced solid results and cultivated strong partnerships with business teams, delivering impactful programmes and interventions at scale. Passionate about culture transformation, business partnering and talent development, she is constantly inspired to accelerate organisation agility and resilience for future of work, and groom new generation of global talent.
Sunny graduated with Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in the City of New York.
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