Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A.

Kwame is a two-time best-selling author, keynote speaker, business lawyer and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute.

Recognized as one of the world’s top negotiation experts, he hosts the number one negotiation podcast in the world, Negotiate Anything, which has +10 million downloads and listeners in +180 countries.

Kwame gained prominence through his TEDx Talk, “Finding Confidence in Conflict,” viewed over 645,000 times. He’s the author of two bestselling books: “Finding Confidence in Conflict” (2020) and “How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race” (2022).

He’s also a regular Contributor for Forbes and has been featured in NPR, USA Today, Fox, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and more.

Under Kwame’s leadership, ANI has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and globally recognized organizations like Google, Apple, NASA, Uber, Target, Intel, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Sotheby's International Realty and more on applying the fundamentals of negotiation to corporate success.

Awards:

* John Glenn College of Public Affairs Young Alumni Award (2020), * Moritz College of Law Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award (2021), * Columbus 40 under 40 (2022), and * The Ohio State University William Oxley Thompson Alumni Award (2023).

He’s the only person in the university’s history to win consecutive alumni awards from both the law school and the master’s of public affairs program.

Kwame is a business attorney at Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor with 40 courses and 2.3 million global learners, averaging an impressive 4.7 out of 5 rating.

That said, Kwame’s proudest achievement is his family. He’s married to Dr. Whitney Christian, and they have two lovely sons, Kai and Dominic.

Fun Fact: Kwame is a chess enthusiast, having played 20,000+ online games and ranking in the 99th percentile on Chess.com.