Dr. Jan Hoistad Partners - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lisa Bobyak

Dr. Jan Hoistad is a rare find, indeed; a brilliant mind trained in the fields of education, mediation and psychology. We originally met over 10 years ago and I continue to marvel at Dr. Jan's unique strengths. She's a coaches coach, with her deep instinctual insights and her uber smart intellect. She's as gentle as she is direct. Looking for coaching for your team or your partnership? I highly recommend, Dr. Hoistad.

Tony Rubin

Dr. Jan Hoistad is an incredible professional partner to my advisory practice. Her attentiveness to clients who are either in career transition, business growth mode or partnership challenges, has been rewarding to clients. I appreciate Jan's perspective on how to help cut through the brush to get to the root of issues that need to be flushed out and refined for success. As an advisor to clients, i appreciate her skill set in guiding people through some of the greatest challenges and opportunities! I like to refer clients, acquaintances and friends to Dr. Jan Hoistad!

David Mann

Dr. Jan Hoistad's intuitive ability to guide her clients is incredibly effective. She uses her psychological expertise alongside her keen business sense to simultaneously listen and lead, so her clients are confident the solutions Dr. Jan provides are always in their best interest. She understands how critical it is to have healthy, thriving professional relationships, and she knows exactly how to help her clients achieve that. Dr. Jan has been both a client and a colleague of mine, and our time together is always as productive as it is enjoyable.

Laura Cullip

Jan has been an invaluable resource to grow, define, and sharpen our farm business. She is supportive, intuitive, clear, and creative. She has helped us vastly improve our hiring, employee management, and risk management processes, often with simple, creative strategies that make a big positive impact. She’s also helped us step back and look at the Big Picture, further defining our farm’s mission, values, and visioning for the future, and then grounding that vision in the present. Her blending of the practical improvement of systems with the creative visioning for the future has been an inspiring part of our work with her. With Jan’s help, we’ve been able to move our farm forward without sacrificing our quality of life and partnering goals.
Laura Frerichs, Loon Organics

Beth Klute

I worked with Dr. Jan Hoistad as my executive and career coach for a number of years as I have moved through various transitions. First and foremost was growing me into a greater leadership and training role in my organization. At the same time she’s offered great guidance to me as a single working mom, and to my two sons as they’ve grown into young adults exploring college options and developing their career paths. Finally she helped me think through what I wanted to do next as I prepared myself for a much planned for early retirement.

After successfully reaching my goal to retire early, coaching with Dr. Jan keeps me on track. We focus on the new priorities for my newfound freedom. These include traveling the country to find a compatible geographic home. Enjoying exercise and self-care activities. Making new friends. Navigating distant parenting of twenty-somethings while keeping an eye on aging parents. All the while we’re tapping into a dream I have of sharing my experiences in a podcast for others like me--early retirees who want to create a vibrant life they enjoy for the next 30+ years!

Emily Nahem

I have known and worked with Jan personally and professionally for a number of years. As a personal mentor, she has provided me genuine and valuable advice and expertise when it came to pursuing a career path based on my passions, values, and interests. She spent time talking me through the important and critical steps to begin my career and has influenced me to go into the field that I’m in, career development among young professionals. My professional work with Jan helped me to develop a critical-thinking, creative, and business-savvy mindset. I learned from her how to listen to someone’s story and help create solution-focused goals, generally from an organizational standpoint. Her focus on collaboration and teamwork have been admirable for creating an environment in which strategic ideas have developed. Jan has always encouraged partnering with others and building relationships, which I have learned is vital to creative professional development. As I have embarked on my own journey through graduate school and into my first professional career position, I must give credit to Jan’s influence and dedication in working with me.

Judy HORNBACHER

Insightful, dedicated, brilliant, experienced entrepreneur: Dr. Jan Hoistad is an extraordinarily gifted leader who knows how to build businesses and develop the people who run them. I was a business client of Dr. Hoistad's for five years. Her work made it possible for me to start , manage and build my design business. She led me, pushed me, informed me, supported me as I negotiated each new phase of my enterprise. I could not have done what I did without her. I recommend her most highly.

Julie M

Our experience in working with Dr. Hoistad was insightful, efficient, and effective. We found her suggestion of meeting together as a group and one-on-one meetings to be very helpful. She helped each of us individually create a framework that we merged together as a group. We made great strides in our communication skills and found tactical solutions to use going forward in to the future. We would recommend any partnership to hire Dr. Hoistad.