Kwame Christian is a leading negotiation expert, best-selling author, podcaster, keynote speaker, Forbes contributor, business attorney, and founder of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI). ANI is a global consulting firm that provides training and coaching on negotiation strategies for both personal and professional conversations. With a focus on negotiation, diversity, equity, inclusion, leadership, sales, and conflict resolution, ANI assists organisations and individuals in transforming challenging discussions into opportunities for success. Under Kwame’s guidance, ANI has worked with Fortune 500 companies to enhance corporate outcomes through effective negotiation techniques. He developed the Compassionate Curiosity Framework™ and has conducted workshops worldwide.
Kwame gained recognition after his TEDx Talk, "Finding Confidence in Conflict," which has over 409,000 views. He has since published two bestsellers: "Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life" (2020) and "How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race: Practical Tools for Necessary Change in the Workplace and Beyond" (2022). He hosts the podcast "Negotiate Anything," which covers topics from salary negotiations to conflict management, and has become the top negotiation podcast globally, with over five million downloads.
As a practising attorney, Kwame helps businesses navigate legal challenges and secure better deals. He has taught negotiation and communication at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, which is renowned for its dispute resolution programme. Kwame holds a law degree, a master's in public policy, and a bachelor's in psychology from The Ohio State University, where he received multiple alumni awards.
Outside work, Kwame is also an avid chess player, having played over 20,000 games and achieved a ranking in the 99th percentile on Chess.Com.
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