Khristian A. Howell
Keynotes · Panels · Podcasts · Press

Not another wellness voice. Not another designer.

Twenty years as an editorial and on-camera voice. Khristian braids three threads most people keep apart: design, the body and reinvention. Audiences leave with language for something they already felt.

Khristian A. Howell smiling, in a green sweater with gold bangles

Watch the reel

On-air expert reel
FormatsKeynote, panel, fireside, podcast
AudiencesBrand, design, lifestyle and women’s leadership
DeliveryIn person or virtual, in English
On cameraTODAY, NBC, HLN, FOX

Talks

From the conference stage to Cannes, and the podcast mic in between.

01

Design as a decoder

The same principles that fix a room can redesign a business, and a life.

The filter behind everything Khristian does, from corporate brand work to Center of Gravity. How color, space and feeling reveal what a brand or a person actually needs.

Best for · Brand, marketing and leadership conferences

02

The center of gravity

Building a life that holds its own weight, on purpose.

A framework for telling the difference between a life that looks right and one that feels right, and redesigning toward the second.

Best for · Women’s leadership, lifestyle and wellbeing events

03

You are already an expat

Feeling foreign in your own life is the real emigration. No passport required.

On reinvention, from someone who moved her life across an ocean to find the words for it.

Best for · Career reinvention, global and women’s leadership audiences

04

The why beneath the brand

Through a designer’s eye and a journalist’s ear.

How brands earn meaning, and why some stories travel while others stall.

Best for · Marketing, creative and industry stages

In the room

Stages, studios and screens.

Keynote

AmericasMart, Atlanta.

Panels

Better Homes & Gardens conference. Licensing industry shows. Let’s Conference, the lifestyle design conference in Atlanta.

In conversation

Interviewing Tom Dixon on stage, at the invitation of his PR team.

On air

TODAY, as spokesperson for Better Homes & Gardens in a live segment. Guest judge on NBC’s American Dream Builders with Nate Berkus. Recurring design expert on FOX 32’s Good Day Chicago. HLN and Atlanta Plugged In.

On screen

Executive producer, No Hands: The Wild Ride of the Schwinn Bicycle Company. World premiere, Boulder International Film Festival, April 2026, followed by Newport Beach and Chicago International Film Festivals.

Khristian interviewing Tom Dixon on stage
In conversation with Tom Dixon.
Khristian on the TODAY set in a coral blazer
Live on TODAY for Better Homes & Gardens.
Khristian with the cast of American Dream Builders
Guest judge on NBC’s American Dream Builders.
Why she lands

An easy, generous guest who carries a conversation and says the thing everyone recognizes but no one says.

Credentials

Former Hearst contributing editor for Better Homes & Gardens and Real Simple. Author of Color + Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design. Namesake product collections at Target, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, West Elm and Apple. Featured in ELLE Decoration, Domino, Essence and HGTV Magazine. Founder of Center of Gravity. Advisor to Solliance.

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