Your goals. Our guidance. One journey.

Focus Financial Group

Your financial journey is multifaceted and unique, and you shouldn’t have to travel alone. You deserve a knowledgeable, dependable guide to help you along the way, and that’s where Focus Financial Group comes in. As financial professionals with deep and broad experience, we’re here to assist you with retirement income planning, wealth management, investing, insurance, tax-efficiency strategies, legacy planning and more. 


Our mission is to help you be wise with money by providing comprehensive, objective financial guidance that reflects your goals and values. In addition, we combine faith and finance to inspire generosity in the Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo area. If you become a client with membership, you can help us strengthen the communities in which we live and work through programs like Thrivent Action Teams, Thrivent Builds and Thrivent Choice® Dollars.* 

Team Intro

Your financial journey is multifaceted and unique, and you shouldn’t have to travel alone. You deserve a knowledgeable, dependable guide to help you along the way, and that’s where Focus Financial Group comes in. As financial professionals with deep and broad experience, we’re here to assist you with retirement income planning, wealth management, investing, insurance, tax-efficiency strategies, legacy planning and more. 


Our mission is to help you be wise with money by providing comprehensive, objective financial guidance that reflects your goals and values. In addition, we combine faith and finance to inspire generosity in the Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo area. If you become a client with membership, you can help us strengthen the communities in which we live and work through programs like Thrivent Action Teams, Thrivent Builds and Thrivent Choice® Dollars.* 

Our story

At Focus Financial Group, we are more than just coworkers. We support each other the same way we strive to support our clients—like family.

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Our team

Shad Connor

Shad Connor

CFP®, CLU®, RICP®

Wealth Advisor

Todd Schaffer

Todd Schaffer

CFP®, FIC, RICP®

Director of Dedicated Planning and Investment Operations

Our advice approach

Building your financial blueprint

Achieve financial clarity and confidence as you work toward your financial goals and dreams. Our advice approach is designed to be flexible to meet your needs and fluid enough to adapt to life changes. We'll start with a blueprint everyone's on board with and work from there.

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How we work with you

Our team is committed to continually simplifying, streamlining and adapting our services to make your experience as easy and efficient as possible. And we are dedicated to delivering the customized strategies and attentive service you deserve.  

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Our solutions

Advice Services

Insurance

Investments

About Thrivent

How we’re different

At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking, and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they've been given.

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Thrivent membership benefits

When you join Thrivent, you become part of something bigger. You share in the collective ownership of our company and you’re part of a community of people looking out for others. In addition to Thrivent’s financial expertise and solutions, membership provides eligible clients with tools and resources to make it easy to give of yourself and live a more meaningful life.

Thrivent membership benefits

Office information

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Operating Hours:

M – F: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.