Meet Christina Hepner

Christina Hepner began her career the way most journalists do: chasing other people’s stories.

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As a TV news journalist and communications leader, she spent more than a decade learning how narratives are shaped, how stories influence what people believe, and how a single headline can shape the way an entire story is understood.

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What took her years to realize was that she had been living under a headline of her own.

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One she never chose.

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At seven years old, after a moment in a classroom that quietly told her she was “too much,” Christina internalized a story she would carry for decades: make yourself smaller.

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That headline followed her.

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At 16, despite being the previous year’s MVP, she was told she didn’t “look the part” for the softball team and walked away from the game she loved.

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At 19, a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis introduced physical and emotional challenges she learned to mask instead of confronting.

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Even as she built a successful career across television news, city government, and nonprofit leadership, that same internal narrative continued to shape how she showed up, often forcing her to choose between using her voice and protecting her place in the room.

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Eventually, she stopped accepting the story as truth.

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She began asking the same question she had spent years asking as a journalist: Who wrote this, and is it a credible source?

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That question became the foundation for The H.E.A.D.line Method™, Christina’s signature framework for identifying, examining, and rewriting the narratives that shape how we communicate, lead, and live.

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Today, Christina helps audiences uncover the invisible headlines influencing their confidence, leadership, and communication, and teaches them how to rewrite those stories with intention.

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Drawing from her background in journalism, strategic communications, and her own experience navigating identity, resilience, and reinvention, Christina delivers keynotes that are equal parts personal, practical, and deeply transformative.

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She believes the most powerful stories are not the ones written about us. They’re the ones we choose to write next.

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