About Torund Bryhn

Strategic Communications Advisor, Founder of Public Figure Agency: Public Relations and Public Affairs, Executive Positioning Expert, Bestselling Author, and Podcaster.

Torund is a strategic communications expert at heart. She builds reputations, ignites movements, and expands circles of influence across multiple domains. Today, she advises leaders, executives, and organizations across more than 20 countries, helping them position themselves as thought leaders and navigate the most complex communications challenges. Her work spans politics, corporate strategy, nonprofits, energy policy, and international relations. What sets Torund apart is her integrated stack: systems thinking combined with technical execution, creative production, thought leadership development, and high-level relationship building with media, investor, and political circles.

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Turning Expertise into Influence

Torund Bryhn helps established experts turn what they know into influence that can travel. Her premise is simple: expertise is not enough.

Knowledge creates influence only when people recognize it, position it as intellectual capital, and connect it to the right people, platforms, markets, and institutions.

Through Public Figure Agency, she works with executives, founders, experts, and organizations to find what makes them distinctive, identify where that knowledge has the most leverage, and build the architecture around it. The work can include positioning, thought leadership, books, media, speaking, stakeholder engagement, reputation, and the systems required to hold public visibility once it arrives.

She treats brand, communications, public relations, and relationship-building as parts of one influence system, not separate disciplines.
 
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Substance First

Positioning, for Torund, is not the manufacture of a story. It is the work of finding the substance worth building around.

Her career has tested that principle across American politics and Capitol Hill, corporate communications, nonprofits, energy, public affairs, crisis and reputation management, and international policy. The pattern has been consistent: lasting influence begins with something real, then gets framed so it can move. The work starts beneath the message. Through research and diagnosis, she identifies the experience, point of view, and intellectual capital that can set a leader apart. Then she determines what should be brought into the world, how to position it, and which vehicles and relationships can carry it further.
 
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A Transatlantic Lens

Born in the United States to a Norwegian family and shaped by work on both sides of the Atlantic, Torund learned early that ideas do not travel unchanged. Context, culture, and relationships decide whether the same idea lands or fails. She studied Strategic Communication at Columbia University, completed executive education at INSEAD, and specialized in crisis-management training at MIT. Today, her work focuses on one defining problem for established experts: how to turn a lifetime of knowledge into influence that outlasts the individual.

From expertise to influence. From influence to legacy.

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