The Jan Hopkins Group is a communications consulting firm. We help companies and non-profits better connect with key constituencies, including clients and prospects, especially in the high-net-worth marketplace, to meet goals ranging from business development to fundraising. We help key executives anticipate media reaction to their messages and develop powerful media skills and contacts. Services include media coaching, video production, speakers and panel moderators, and customized programs.

Jan Hopkins is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist and former anchor & correspondent at CNN with two decades of experience in business news and network television production. At the end of 2007, Jan became the President of the Economic Club of New York, the first woman to fill this post. The Economic Club of New York is one of the nation's oldest and preeminent speaker's platforms for major global business, financial and political figures.
She covered Wall Street from the bull market to the crash in the 1980s and the business world from dot com boom to bust in the 90s. She has interviewed guests from heads of state to heads of companies to shareholders, workers and men and women on the street. Prior to CNN she worked for ABC World News Tonight, CBS network television news, plus for radio and television stations in Ohio.
She is also a former Managing Director and Head of Client Communications at Citigroup Private Bank where she developed strategy and programs to communicate Citigroup's best ideas to high-net-worth clients around the world.
          In 2005 she founded The Jan Hopkins Group, a communications and media strategy consulting company that specializes in connecting clients more effectively with their audience and offers media training and video production services. The Jan Hopkins Group has worked with a national non-profit to connect with potential leaders for a major capital campaign; with the chief executive of a hedge fund on media strategy; and produced a video for a pharmaceutical company shareholder's meeting.
Jan Hopkins serves on the Advisory Board of the Knight Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University School of Journalism. As a Bagehot Fellow she studied at Columbia University School of Business. She is a former member of the board of Girl Scouts USA and of the board of trustees at Hiram College. She is a Director of Bostwick Laboratories of Richmond, Virginia and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Goverance Committees.

Lesley Geary is a 24-year TV news veteran. Specializing in producing long form television pieces, Geary reported business for the Nightly Business Report on PBS for more than 10 years, was CNBC's first female bureau chief, and contributed more than 100 pieces to Movers and Business Unusual at CNN.

Bill Kavanagh has over twenty-five years experience in documentary and nonfiction media as well as theatrical and live event production. His company, Kavanagh Productions Inc. is a collaborator with the Jan Hopkins Group.
Kavanagh's documentaries have been awarded two Ford Foundation grants and have been shown throughout the Americas.
His broadcast directing skills are coupled with an ability to elicit fascinating interviews, both public and personal. He’s also directed event coverage of Tiger Woods, and with public figures Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
In the corporate world, and he has produced industry award-winning corporate work for his clients including the CEOs of Merrill Lynch, American Express and New York Life Insurance and Soros Fund Management.

Agi Clark’s advertising career spans 25 years, two thirds of it spent at N.W. Ayer going from Art Director/writer to Executive Creative Director. She then became Chairman, Chief Creative Officer at Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein. She spearheaded countless prestigious accounts such as AT&T, DeBeers, IBM, The Bahamas, The New York Stock Exchange, India Tourist Office, Gillette, Kraft, J.C. Penney, and won many awards for her work. She now is designer and senior editor of Hudson River Art magazine. She does design, strategic and advertising work through her new company: studio-agi

Deborah Marchini spent 23 years covering business news, the last 13 of them anchoring a live, daily, early-morning show for CNN. She's also reported from Washington and New York for CNN, and traveled frequently on the speaking circuit addressing large groups and leading panel discussions on finance and investments. Before moving to television, she wrote extensively about taxes, economics, and monetary policy. Highlights of her career include covering the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and White House economic policy for CNN.

Pamela Wallin is the Senior Advisor on Canadian Affairs at the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas in New York, and she serves on several corporate boards and many advisory and volunteer organizations. The career of the Canadian-born journalist, diplomat and entrepreneur has now spanned more than thirty years and several continents. Pamela has just completed her four-year term as Consul General of Canada in New York. She was appointed to the prestigious post in 2002.

Emmy award winning journalist, Valerie Morris is a former Business Anchor for CNN domestic and international. She continues her nationally syndicated radio column "With the Family in Mind" on the CBS radio network.
A popular lecturer on financial literacy, Morris also works as a facilitator, keynote speaker and Mistress of Ceremonies for senior executive conferences and corporate staff and employee special events.
Morris' broadcast career spans more than 35 years and includes both coasts. She came to CNN in 1996 from WPIX-TV in New York where she was both a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor. She began her career as a broadcast journalist in San Francisco where she worked for KRON-TV and KGO-TV as a researcher, general assignment reporter and ultimately an anchor. Morris was also the morning drive anchor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco and midday anchor at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.