BIO

PERCEPTIVE - PASSIONATE - POWERHOUSE

With more than 25 years proven platform experience, Jan’s exceptional presentation skills make her encouraging messages the inspired choice for conferences, retreats, fundraisers—ministry, non-profit, and general market—events. Her powerful, passionate presentations—blended with Scripture, real-life solutions, street-smart insights, humor, contagious passion, and grace—truly bless participants.

Jan knows about hanging on to a bare thread of hope—in spite of all odds and worldly conditions. By God’s grace, she overcame divorce, dysfunctional family relations, childhood abuse, divorce, the loss of her only biological child, depression, gang warfare, cancer, and much more. Now she energizes others with truth and freedom found only in Christ. A non-denominational Christian, Jan is living proof that God heals and transforms the improbable.

Jan’s ministry experience includes:

• Founder and president of Set Free Today Ministries ( www.setfreetoday.com)
• Founder and president of Jan Coates Consulting
• Author of several books, including Set Free, and numerous articles
• Regular national and regional television and radio guest
• Speaking coach for more than 20 years
• Graduate of Park University (Summa Cum Laude)
• Attended Moody Bible Institute
• Vice President, Christians In Recovery
• Founding member of MADD, Kansas City, MO
• Certified speaker with CLASServices, Speak Up Speaker Services, National Speakers Association
• Bible study leader
• Popular conference, retreat, and workshop speaker

Jan will energize and encourage you with life-changing messages and practical Scriptural insight. A native of Kansas City, MO, Jan also lived in Boston and San Francisco. Jan and her family are at home in College Station, TX, where they have lived for 13 years.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Park University, Kansas City, MO.

COMMUNITY

• Jan was one of the founding members of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), Kansas City, Missouri Chapter. As a Director of the Speakers’ Bureau for this MADD Chapter from 1982-1987, her role included extensive television, radio and platform speaking. She coordinated sales drive campaigns with 2,000-percent increase in local contributions.
• Jan has assisted numerous ministries and community organizations over the past 20 years, including: Save Our Streets Ministry, Community Bible Study, Christian Women’s Club, Precept Ministries, Youth for Christ, AWANA, crisis pregnancy centers, Home4Families, pro-life organizations and more.
• She is a member of Christ United Methodist Church, College Station, TX.

BUSINESS

• Jan is an author, speaker and consultant. She has worked in sales, marketing and creative writing for more than 30 years. She is the President and founder of Creative Consulting/Marketing Solutions, a full service firm that provides customized consulting, marketing, promotion and publicity services for Christian and cross-over publishers and authors.
• She is also the President and founder of Jan Coates Consulting (JCC), A general marketing consulting firm, specializing in keynotes, breakouts, workshops, training, coaching, and seminars. JCC also offers corporate sales/marketing training.

Jan and her team have designed and produced hundreds of newsletters, publicity campaigns, ads, brochures, Web sites, press kits, videos and more for a broad array of organizations ranging from Fidelity Investments to urban ministries.

As a professional speaker, she shares biblical topics and life applications with groups, ranging from small urban ministries to large Christian conferences.

Prior to owning her own business, Jan was a Professor of Marketing for Eastern Nazarene College. A pioneer in the office automation industry for ten years, Jan was the major account sales manager for Wang Laboratories where she reported to John Chambers, now CEO and Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems, Inc. She was the National Account Sales Manager for NCR and Branch Sales Manager for AM International. She exceeded sales quotas by up to 400 percent. Her warm, professional style allowed her to build solid relationships with national accounts resulting in multi-million dollar contracts. Prior to entering the computer industry, Jan was one of the investment banking industry’s first female corporate officers, managing municipal and corporate bond ROI for more than seven years.

PERSONAL

Jan and her husband, Bill, have been married for 25 years. They now have two teens, Matthew Jacob and Jordan Nicole.

A native of Kansas City, MO, Jan also lived in Boston and San Francisco. Jan and her family are at home in College Station, Texas where they have lived for 13 years.

She has shown Appaloosa horses, receiving numerous awards including Reserve World Championship. Jan enjoys family time, reading and fishing.

A bit of humorous trivia about Jan:

• Fellow students in her pottery class voted her out of the class because her clay kept flying off the wheel.
• She was nominated “class clown” in aerobics.
• Her kids refuse to shop with her because she gets lost in the revolving doors.