Josh Gryniewicz

Founder & Chief Narrative Strategist
Odd Duck

Josh Gryniewicz (GREN – AH – WITZ) is the founder and Chief Narrative Strategist at Odd Duck, a storytelling-for-social-change creative consultancy focused on impact-driven organizations. Josh is also co-author of the award-winning national bestseller INTERRUPTING VIOLENCE. For over a decade, he has worked in nonprofit communication, notably as communication director for Cure Violence Global, an internationally renowned violence prevention program, and Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH), a Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on national multi-sector data sharing to address social determinants of health. In 2018, he founded Odd Duck to combine his passions for storytelling and social change. The agency’s Navigating Misinformation for Community Health framework has been shared with over a thousand community health organizations and included in the Harvard School of Public Health curriculum. Odd Duck has worked with nearly a hundred changemaking organizations and advised hundreds more, including the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the Alliance for Early Success, and the White House.

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Presentation(s):

• Flipping the Script: A New Approach to Narrative Strategy and Storytelling for Nonprofits

  Friday, August 1, 2025
  11:30 AM - 12:30 PM