The Firm

Licia Hahn & Co, LLC is a management consulting firm helping CEO’s and their C Suite teams improve company and leadership performance.

The firm’s clients range from Fortune 500 global companies to start ups in the media, healthcare, financial services, and industrial sectors. Hahn’s practice also includes news talent, high profile sports figures, and politicians. Her firm has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and on CNN. 

Licia Hahn Profile

Hahn’s success in advising company CEOs, their teams and boards, is rooted in years of corporate leadership experience.

Before the formation of her firm in 2001, Hahn served as EVP Marketing, Working Woman Network, a B2B digital brand, and VP News & Marketing, CBS Television Stations Group. Hahn led the CBS O&O’s – the network’s key source of cash flow – through a business transformation, instilling the disciplines of performance accountability, strategic focus, branding, and senior team alignment, resulting in major revenue, ratings, and market share growth. Hahn also created an AI news product in partnership with Carnegie Mellon providing CBS with a competitive advantage in breaking news.

Prior to her stint in broadcast news, Hahn was a marketing executive, successfully repositioning leading magazine brands: The New Yorker, House Beautiful, and European Travel & Life. She began her career in corporate sales at IBM and fixed income institutional sales at Lehman Brothers. She then served as finance director for a U.S. congressional race in Philadelphia. After the campaign, she joined ad agency Lowe & Partners in account management on Citibank’s credit card businesses.

Hahn is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. cum laude in French literature and attended Columbia University’s Executive MBA Program in Finance and Accounting for Executives.

A FOCUS ON NEUROSCIENCE AND EDUCATION

Hahn’s strong, continuing interests are in neuroscience healthcare solutions and student mentoring.

She was the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of a new podcast, This Is Your Brain with Dr. Phil Stieg launched in 2019. Over the course of  Season One’s 57 episodes, it ranked in Apple’s Top 25 Lifesciences podcasts.

Hahn spearheaded the creation of The Weill Cornell Children’s Brain Tumor Project in 2011 to fund research for rare and incurable pediatric brain cancers with two leading neuroscientists: Dr. Mark Souweidane and Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield. Over the course of ten years, the project achieved its goal of funding a world class lab, developing promising therapies, and providing hope to affected families globally. 

Hahn has lectured widely in the business, non-profit, and academic sectors. She and her husband, Gene Dattel, are Associate Fellows at Yale University’s Berkeley College, a community of Yale faculty and external thought leaders. They established a mentorship program for Yale students now in its 8th year, providing guidance on issues ranging from academic focus, identity, and leadership to editorial review of articles for publication and academic papers, career paths, job interview prep and placement. They also fund and moderate a monthly private seminar of selected undergraduate and graduate students on national security, global finance, and statecraft. Hahn also teaches a student seminar on The Art of Persuasion©2023.