Steven Corn is a Maryland court roster mediator, business affairs executive, and dispute resolution professional with more than 35 years of negotiation experience helping individuals, families, creators, and businesses resolve complex conflicts. As the founder of Metis Mediation Services, Steven combines transformative mediation principles with decades of executive-level negotiation experience to help parties reach practical, lasting agreements while preserving important relationships. Before becoming a professional mediator, Steven spent more than 30 years in the music industry, negotiating thousands of business transactions involving artists, record labels, publishers, distributors, licensing, royalties, intellectual property, and entertainment contracts. His career includes leadership roles in music distribution, publishing, business affairs, and catalog management, including serving as CEO of an award-winning jazz label whose artists collectively earned five Grammy® Awards and seventeen Grammy® nominations. This uncommon combination of mediation training and real-world commercial negotiation experience allows Steven to effectively resolve disputes involving family relationships, business conflicts, entertainment matters, contract disputes, intellectual property, healthcare, landlord-tenant issues, and community disagreements.
