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.
Building Reputations and Igniting Movements Across Domains
Torund Bryhn understands that authentic differentiation is the foundation of influence. Throughout her career spanning politics, corporate communications, nonprofits, international policy, and energy sectors, she has witnessed a consistent truth: leaders and organizations that build real substance before crafting their narratives command lasting influence. She approaches communications as a strategic architect, layering systems thinking with creative storytelling to decode what makes leaders and organizations genuinely different. Rather than manufacturing messages, Torund uncovers the core truths beneath surface positioning and frames them in ways that resonate across audiences. Her work has ranged from shaping media narratives on Capitol Hill to repositioning organizations facing reputation challenges to building thought leadership platforms for executives emerging into public life. Torund’s methodology, the Evodia Flow, is grounded in 360-degree research, insight discovery, and strategic positioning that transforms how audiences perceive leaders and organizations.
Strategic Communications Across Politics, Corporate, and Policy
Torund Bryhn has spent her career navigating the intersection of business, policy, academia, advocacy, and culture. She began on political campaigns, where she learned firsthand how ideas grounded in technology, relationships, and storytelling can mobilize meaningful wins. She later saw this same pattern repeat in corporate environments, nonprofits, and international policy forums. This cross-sector experience gives her a rare advantage: she understands how to communicate across silos and move ideas from the margins to mainstream influence. Whether advising leaders on personal positioning, guiding organizations through crisis communications, or developing thought leadership strategies, Torund brings a systems-level perspective that accounts for stakeholder dynamics, media landscapes, and the nuances of different sectors. Her strategic counsel is grounded in research and shaped by an understanding that true influence emerges when substance precedes narrative.
Torund Bryhn's Journey: From Multiple Continents to Multidisciplinary Expertise
Torund Bryhn was born between Norway and the United States, a bicultural background that shaped her understanding of how ideas, culture, and communication cross borders. She grew up navigating different perspectives and learning early that the same message lands differently depending on context, audience, and cultural framework. This foundation became essential to her later work in international communications and cross-sector positioning. Her formal education at Columbia University in Strategic Communication, combined with executive education at INSEAD and specialized crisis management training at MIT, equipped her with both theoretical frameworks and practical tools. But her real education came through doing: working on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, directing communications for organizations ranging from World Vision to AGR Group, advising on parliamentary communications in multiple countries, and building strategic communications departments from the ground up. Each role added layers to her understanding of how organizations and leaders can authentically communicate their impact. Today, she brings this multidisciplinary perspective to every engagement, helping underestimated experts become recognized public figures and helping established leaders expand their influence into new domains.
Building Reputations and Igniting Movements Across Domains
Torund Bryhn understands that authentic differentiation is the foundation of influence. Throughout her career spanning politics, corporate communications, nonprofits, international policy, and energy sectors, she has witnessed a consistent truth: leaders and organizations that build real substance before crafting their narratives command lasting influence. She approaches communications as a strategic architect, layering systems thinking with creative storytelling to decode what makes leaders and organizations genuinely different. Rather than manufacturing messages, Torund uncovers the core truths beneath surface positioning and frames them in ways that resonate across audiences. Her work has ranged from shaping media narratives on Capitol Hill to repositioning organizations facing reputation challenges to building thought leadership platforms for executives emerging into public life. Torund’s methodology, the Evodia Flow, is grounded in 360-degree research, insight discovery, and strategic positioning that transforms how audiences perceive leaders and organizations.
Strategic Communications Across Politics, Corporate, and Policy
Torund Bryhn has spent her career navigating the intersection of business, policy, academia, advocacy, and culture. She began on political campaigns where she learned firsthand how ideas, grounded in technology, relationships, and storytelling, can mobilize meaningful wins. She later saw this same pattern repeat in corporate environments, nonprofits, and international policy forums. This cross-sector experience gives her a rare advantage: she understands how to communicate across silos and move ideas from the margins to mainstream influence. Whether advising leaders on personal positioning, guiding organizations through crisis communications, or developing thought leadership strategies, Torund brings a systems-level perspective that accounts for stakeholder dynamics, media landscapes, and the nuances of different sectors. Her strategic counsel is grounded in research and shaped by an understanding that true influence emerges when substance precedes narrative.
Torund Bryhn's Journey: From Multiple Continents to Multidisciplinary Expertise
Torund Bryhn was born between Norway and the United States, a bicultural background that shaped her understanding of how ideas, culture, and communication cross borders. She grew up navigating different perspectives and learning early that the same message lands differently depending on context, audience, and cultural framework. This foundation became essential to her later work in international communications and cross-sector positioning. Her formal education at Columbia University in Strategic Communication, combined with executive education at INSEAD and specialized crisis management training at MIT, equipped her with both theoretical frameworks and practical tools. But her real education came through doing: working on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, directing communications for organizations ranging from World Vision to AGR Group, advising on parliamentary communications in multiple countries, and building strategic communications departments from the ground up. Each role added layers to her understanding of how organizations and leaders can authentically communicate their impact. Today, she brings this multidisciplinary perspective to every engagement, helping underestimated experts become recognized public figures and helping established leaders expand their influence into new domains.