Meet Dr. Jan Hoistad

Go Further and Achieve More, with Greater Ease.

Meet Dr. Jan Hoistad

Go Further and Achieve More, with Greater Ease.

How does Dr. Jan work?

Dr. Jan coaches, consults and partners with you through every transition and stage of growth in your professional and business life. She’s fully committed to accelerating your ability to develop a greatly satisfying professional life—fully aligned with your personal values and needs. She’s committed to helping you avoid detours, so you move further, faster and achieve more with greater ease. Clients from all over the globe seek Jan’s assistance across numerous transition points in their lives to remain aligned, successful and fulfilled. They appreciate her direct nature, caring persistence, and commitment to their growth and goals.

Who is Dr. Jan?

As the founder and CEO of DJHPartners, Inc., Dr. Jan Hoistad has helped career professionals, business owners and partners, and their teams worldwide to achieve ambitious business goals, collaborative relationships, and a greater quality of life. She partners with you through every choice point in your life and business. Whether you’re aimed at a big project, an expanded or transitioned business, or a more fulfilling life, Dr. Jan works with you to implement the best strategic solutions so you achieve your goals with greater ease.

What’s Dr. Jan’s story?

An expert in entrepreneurship, business acumen, human development, systems and stages, creativity and learning styles, Jan is a native of Minneapolis where she did her undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota in Psychology, Education and Studio Arts. A Licensed Psychologist, she holds an MA and PhD in Developmental and Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology’s campus in San Francisco where she lived for a number of years. This was followed by a stint of post-doctoral work on the opposite coast, in the mountains of North Carolina. Upon returning to Minneapolis she established her business guiding people to integrate their professional and personal goals as they develop across their lives.

As an entrepreneur with extensive organizational experience, Jan has completed postdoctoral training in communications, negotiations, mediation, systems, organizational advancement, and leadership development, along with training in negotiation from Harvard’s Project on Negotiation (PON) and mediation from Minnesota Dispute Resolution Services (MDR). She has taught in the psychology departments of San Francisco State and Sacramento State Universities and served on the faculty of St. Olaf College. Jan has also conducted numerous workshops for professionals and couples around topics of partnering to achieve goals together. A prolific writer, Jan has published many articles, workbooks and books on communication, relationships, goal achievement, and career advancement.

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“I am rewarded when my clients develop the clarity and confidence to know and achieve their dreams. Helping them align and strategically move towards their goals impacts all aspects of their life. It quickly moves them to the next level of success they desire, for themselves and in all their relationships.”

Success Stories

Insightful, dedicated, experienced entrepreneur: Dr. Jan Hoistad is an extraordinarily gifted leader who knows how to build businesses and the people who run them.

Working with Dr. Jan Hoistad is both productive and a pleasure. We have utilized Jan’s talents for strategic planning in building our team of employees and developing strategies for growth.

Dr. Jan provides the focus needed to look at the big picture and to create balance within both work and personal environments. Business owners and Team leaders can definitely benefit from Jan’s experience, insight, creativity, and ability to keep busy professionals on track with their goals.

Jan has been an invaluable resource to grow, define, and sharpen our 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.

Dr. Jan helped us step back and look at the Big Picture, further defining our company 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.