Janese Evans

Founder/President, Strategic Toolbox

Janese focuses on helping people and companies get unstuck. She’s grounded in a belief that everyone is creative, but everyone gets stuck. With that in mind, she uses tools and talents to identify what is possible and what is preferable. As principal of Strategic Toolbox, she’s done work in 23 countries and 18 languages for a mix of high tech, consumer, industrial, service and educational clients. Her specialty is strategic issues. Whether through facilitating creativity and planning sessions or providing the research to better understand a situation and a target audience,

Janese brings insight and ideas that have influenced business decision-making for nearly 30 years. She has a background on the supplier, agency and client sides, having held leadership positions a Custom Research, Rapp Collins Communications, Hawkeye Consulting Group, Business Incentives or The Schwan Food Company. Her B.S. and M.B.A. are from St. Cloud State University.