Senior Vice President, Strategy
Email: jan@finneymedia.com
Hi, I’m Jan Shober. I started in radio more than thirty five years ago. I had the distinct joy of serving as a Vice-President of Media Expansion and Syndication, Executive Director of Briargate Media and Director of Broadcast Creative Services. The wonderful people I met! The teams I worked with! The programs and short form I had the great pleasure of being involved with! Do I sound like a cheerleader? Well, I was in a way.
I worked with around 3,000 media outlets and oversaw placement for the Focus media family of radio and TV products. The Creative Serve area won numerous Addy awards in the Public Service category during my years there, as well as serving as a generator for new programming. Overall, placement extended across formats, ranging from Teaching-Talk/Inspo/CCB for an award-winning long-form program to CCM and Country/NewsTalk/AC for several significant short form products.
And other significant experience? Well, I had my world expanded, as well as my heart for service. We left the relative comfort of the Upper Midwest and lived in Ecuador, South America, where I served with Reach Beyond as a radio host and producer. I lived at 9,000 feet with three growing children in a very different cultural environment.
Let me mention a few other places I developed friends. I graduated from Colorado Christian University in Organizational Management, the Moody Bible Institute in Bible-Theology and the Rio Grande Bible Institute in the Spanish Language. For a long time, I was on National Religious Broadcaster’s Radio Committee and a member of the NRB’s Board of Directors.
All along the way, my family has provided constant joy. My family includes my husband Phil, three adult children and their delightful families.
It has always been my life mission to reach more people with Jesus love and Good News; now based on the years of experience I collected we can do that together as a team, whether we are working together on your team’s strengths (using Strengthsfinder) or considering your Teaching format lineup or focusing in on your strategy.
