Before Janet Chihocky helped military buildings tell their stories, she had to keep her own business from ending. The JANSON founder’s career runs through aerospace marketing, a financial reckoning, and a belief that listening is work.
She started at 26 with a living room, a telephone and very long odds. Thirty years later, the Columbus founder still measures marketing by the same test: did anyone move?

After three decades in recruiting, the Employ Partners founder has turned a local lesson into a larger operating brief: look past the handshake, question the checklist, and build the relationship before you fill the role.