I’m a student at Arizona State University where I’ve been studying Health Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and am interested in going into healthcare system operations. Dr. Hoistad has been working with me as I’ve grown into an adult by helping me put myself in the best position possible to succeed in my education, career, and relationships. Dr. Hoistad has installed a “why not” attitude into my life, which has given me the freedom to fearlessly chase my dreams while also growing as an individual. I enjoy my time when I’m working with Dr. Hoistad, as she encourages me to push my boundaries, and helps me grow my network. I would recommend Dr. Hoistad to anyone interested in working to advance in both their personal and professional life.

I have worked with Dr. Jan since my senior year of high school, going on year 6 now. She’s helped me through changing colleges and majors. Having Jan to bounce ideas off of and get my thoughts out to someone impartial is very helpful. She also has helped me in my professional life with her contacts that include attorneys and finance connections. I am very grateful to work with Dr. Jan.

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 Jans 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!

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

I can’t thank you enough for all of the help, insights, encouragement and guidance you have given us over the past two years. During our journey together my family and I have greatly benefited and continue to move more easily forward in business and life, using the helpful tools and skills that you have taught us.Some quick catch up: I want to share because you are an integral part of all of this positive activity that you have helped us achieve. (The generations) are all doing our daily work together on the farm and at markets. And we are involved in our own individual creative endeavors as well…. community theater, performing and directing… opening an office with others that practice massage and acupuncture. I have begun to write music and play my instruments again….. also skiing and mountain biking.With your help we have all been able to move through some sad losses, challenging times and adjustments in our business and personal lives. We have actually began to thrive with other activities along with our daily work. These outside activities have helped us to deal with the ups and downs on the farm, in business and also in everyday life.We feel really feel good that the door is open with you for any needs in the future. We are able to move forward with our work and lives in a much better “mind set” and “skill set” thanks to you!In much gratitude,-Mike Braucher, Owner Sunshine Harvest Farm

I have been working alongside Dr. Jan Hoistad for a little over 6 months to collectively create a strategy for her informational content creation and business brand story. During that time, I had the benefit of learning, not only more about her but also learning from her through the hours of pouring through this content that has been pouring out of her.I was able to read through her lessons and her tidbits of wisdom as well as about the positive results her clients experienced over the past months (and years).Those pieces and tidbits and success stories inspired me in my own business – every day. But I was also inspired to move toward some self-reflection of my personal relationships - that of my beloved partner and spouse, as well as those relationships with my children, my extended family, and those I considered to be my close friends.I’m so grateful for the opportunity to work alongside Dr. Jan in a way most will never get to experience. Now I can confidently say, I can completely endorse all the reasons why any individual or couple, or even a professional partnership or team of people would be better off; personally or professionally, by taking a journey of self-discovery and relationship coaching with Dr. Jan Hoistad.I highly recommend Dr. Jan Hoistad as a valuable and expert resource for couples, business owners and professionals who want more out of life, their business relationships or their career goals and are facing transitional moments in their life or those relationships.

Jan is the best person I’ve ever known to help with so many of life’s transformations. I’ve known her for ages as a colleague, friend and member of Jan’s business teams at different stages. We met at a dinner for entrepreneurs decades ago and have supported and contributed to each other’s work over the years. Jan is a first class, organized, compassionate and knowledgeable person who excels at helping business people at all stages of transition and building.If you choose her you are lucky and you’ve chosen wisely.-Nancy Bundt/Minneapolis and Oslo

As a graphic designer, Ive worked with Jan for over five years, and through many stages of my professional life. While working with her, I learned invaluable collaborative and communicative skills at every step of the way. Jan is an excellent coach who combines sharp, purposeful insight with conscientiousness and creativity. In a team environment, she is an effective and supportive leader, and a joy to work with. I cannot recommend her enough.

Dr. Jan has played a pivotal role in our partnership over the years. Weve experienced a number of significant changes that have affected our relationship and professional aspirations. Jans ability to get to the heart of an issue and assist in clearing away obstacles that prevent growth is remarkable. Shes helped us stayed focused on whats most important as we go through so many changes. I attribute the successes weve experienced since, in part, to her insights.

Dr. Jan helped me uncover and articulate what I have to offer that others dont. Then she helped me build a marketing plan around it. I not only gained a clear vision of what steps I needed to take next to get my business going, she helped me with the confidence to do it! Dr. Jan helped me hone my unique approach and strategize how to connect with the clients who want what I have to offer. Thats been priceless!

Dr. Jan Hoistads 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.

I have worked with Dr. Jan Hoistad as my executive and career coach for a number of years now 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’s helping me think through what I want to do next as I prepare myself for a much planned for early retirement.

I met Jan in 2005, when she came to me for speech communication coaching as she launched a book and new phase of her business. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and consulting with Jan as a professional colleague. Jan continually challenges herself to grow personally and professionally, combining new learning with her wealth of knowledge and experience to help clients grow their partnerships and businesses in ways that are true to who they are and what they value. Jan is what I want in a coach; she’s knowledgeable, thoughtful, intuitive, creative, gentle, firm, honest and fun. When we confer, she listens so well and sparks me to consider fresh perspectives that allow me to make next steps that always feel rightly aligned with both my soul and my goals. If you seek a coach to take you from feeling stuck, conflicted or overburdened with “shoulds,” to the next level of success, hire Jan Hoistad!

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. Hoistads 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.

Ive worked with Jan in a number of capacities including, as her marketer, as her client, and as a colleague. In all cases Ive found her to be smart, focused, and flexible when weve needed to shift strategies. I value her ability to help get me out of my head and come up with new ideas and solutions. Working with Jan is really a pleasure!

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.