About
Sharon Mahn, Esq. Sharon Mahn is the Founder and CEO of Mahn Consulting, LLC, a top international legal and executive search and consulting company based in Manhattan. She was an award winning legal executive Managing Director at the previously largest legal search company in the world pior and was also the Global Head of Legal at a half billion dollar conulsting company. She also practiced law at two premier New York City based international law firms.
Lawdragon listed Sharon as one of the top 100 legal consultants in the world, and she was also named by Leading Women Entrepreneurs as one of the twenty-five Leading Women Entrepreneurs in the New York City area, as well as Top Fifty Business Women by NJBIZ. She is published and is often quoted for her expertise in major periodicals such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and The American Lawyer. She appeared on television for her business expertise, and she is often a panel speaker at industry events worldwide. Additionally, she is also a guest professor for more than a decade at the New York University School of Professional Studies graduate and Masters program, and also has served as a Judge "Shark Tank" style at the school for grading student's final business projects. She penned a column for the New York Law Journal for many years pertaining to industry trends.
In philanthropic endeavors, Sharon was honored as a "Woman of Infuldence" at the T.J. Martell Foundation, as well as the Louis Armstrong Mount Sinai Hospital Music and Medicine Steering committee. She was previously placed by the Robin Hood Foundation on the board in the New York City chapter of Advocates for Children. She has run over fifty marathons and half marathons domestically and internationally for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, St. Jude's Hospital and other causes supporting children and cancer research. She also has served as an Advisor on various for-profit-boards domestically and internationally. She was recognized as a leader for her work with the veterans with not-for-profit Operation Jersey Cares, as well as a Founding Member of the Impact100 Charity in her childhood hometown of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Sharon is a graduate of Western Michigan Law School, cum laude, where she was Senior Associate Editor of the Law Review, a three-year recipient of Academic and Merit Scholarships, and a Recipient of Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Foundation Awards for Outstanding Women Law Students. She is a graduate at Muhlenberg College, where she was recently elected to be on the Board of Trustees, and formerly served on the Alumni Board.
Sharon has lived in downtown Manhattan for over two decades, and loves all that New York City offers with her family, friends and dog Hudson. She enjoys world travel and has recently completed her star in the presitgious Abbott Marathon series where she has competed in all six of the top marathons in the world on behalf of various philanthropic endeavors.