Sharon Hoffman has led Teneo’s executive presence and performance advisory work since January 2025, coaching Fortune 500 CEOs, CFOs, and senior leadership teams during moments of heightened investor scrutiny, media attention, and strategic transition. Her practice focuses on preparing senior leaders for earnings calls, investor days, activist situations, leadership succession events, media interviews, and other high-visibility engagements where clarity, authority, and disciplined execution are essential.
At Teneo, Sharon has advised numerous C-suite leaders across sectors, helping them translate strategy and vision, financial performance, and complex topics into clear, credible narratives for investors and key stakeholders. She specializes in strengthening message architecture, tightening answer precision, and elevating executive command in live, unscripted environments.
Sharon is also an award-winning production executive and seasoned communications consultant with more than 25 years of experience in broadcast news, entertainment and new media. She spent more than two decades in national broadcast journalism, including serving as Executive Producer of the weekend editions of the “CBS Evening News,” where she led breaking news and special events coverage. She helped relaunch “CBS This Morning” and held senior production roles at ABC News, NBC News, and NPR. She oversaw hundreds of hours of live national coverage during moments of crisis and historic global 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. Her background overseeing live national coverage under intense scrutiny informs her disciplined, fact-based approach to preparing senior executives to perform with control and authority in high-pressure environments.
Prior to her work in executive coaching, Sharon served as Executive Producer for Tonal, a late-stage technology company in the connected fitness sector, where she built and led a 50-person creative production and development team. She was also Executive Producer and showrunner for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Entertainment Tonight,” where she helped launch the 24/7 streaming channel “ET Live.”
Sharon’s work has been recognized with seven Emmy Awards (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.