The most effective leaders identify problems no one else believes can be solved and bring aggressive new tactics to the fight. Seeing those problems, designing their solutions and ensuring successful execution is all we do, every day.
CSC works with leading nonprofit, private sector and philanthropic organizations to shape the next generation of public and private advocacy work. We help advocates, campaigners and innovators focus on the most critical issues and build campaigns with the greatest chance of success.
CSC’s approach is based on the idea that solving the most difficult and urgent challenges — climate change, runaway AI, nuclear weapons — means reaching the hardest-to-reach decision makers inside the least accountable countries and companies. Our unique mix of research and tactical design lets us hit targets others can’t.
The biggest problems need the smartest solutions. We help clients design and follow new paths to success and improve work already underway: Identifying the right objectives, targeting the right actors, building an effective and efficient campaign vision and executing the work quickly and on budget through our network of partners.
Ryan Cunningham is the Founder & Principal of Cunningham Strategic Communications. He’s spent more than two decades working at the forefront of the world’s most difficult public challenges, from climate change and technology to education and national security. An expert on policy advocacy and public communication, Ryan’s counsel is trusted by global philanthropists, activists, corporate leaders and media.
Before CSC, Ryan led development, climate and large-scale strategic campaign teams at the Glover Park Group, Waxman Strategies and Fenton Communications, and served as Staff Director of the Kerry-Edwards Presidential Transition Planning Team. Ryan also served as the Chair of the Pike Foundation and a Board member of Everybody Wins! DC, and is a former high school teacher and ex-Republican.
Ryan earned a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
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