Sharon Hoffman is Managing Director and Head of Executive Coaching at Teneo. Sharon is an award-winning production executive and seasoned communications consultant with more than 25 years of experience in broadcast news, entertainment and new media.
At Teneo, Sharon has coached a long list of Fortune 500 C-Suite executives, private company leaders and startup founders, preparing them for investor events, media interviews, town halls, conferences, panel discussions and numerous other high-stakes public conversations.
Before she came to Teneo, Sharon was Executive Producer for Tonal, a late-stage tech startup in the connected fitness sector, where she hired and led the 50-person creative content production and development team. Prior to that, she served as Executive Producer and show runner for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Entertainment Tonight,” where she also helped launch the 24/7 streaming channel “ET Live.”
Sharon spent more than two decades in national broadcast journalism. She was Executive Producer of the Saturday and Sunday editions of the “CBS Evening News” and led the network’s breaking news and special events coverage on weekends. She helped relaunch “CBS This Morning” and held senior production roles at ABC News, NBC News and NPR. She has overseen hundreds of hours of live news coverage, spanning a range of major events including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Sandy Hook shooting, the death of Nelson Mandela, the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, the election of Pope Francis and multiple national political campaigns and elections. She has conducted hundreds of interviews and produced thousands more.
Sharon’s work has been honored with numerous awards, including seven Emmys (16 nominations), four DuPont silver batons, three RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, a UCLA Gerald Loeb Award for Business and Financial Journalism, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a George Foster Peabody Award. She is based in New York.