About Us

Our call to action

Our Mission

For Transitioning Service Members: We are dedicated to serving the military community by connecting them to professional opportunities, resources, and benefits throughout the Great State of Wisconsin. For Businesses and Employers in Wisconsin: Wisconsin businesses invest in us to attract, retain and develop military talent within their companies and the communities they serve.

Our Vision

The vision of Mission Wisconsin is to help employers connect with service members transitioning out of the military, spouses/life partners, and veterans through direct engagement. Connecting service members and families to Wisconsin employers and communities by consulting with Wisconsin businesses on building sustainable transitioning service members and spouses’ programs.

Values

Mission Wisconsin is defined by the same values that are instilled in all of us who have served this great nation: leave no brother or sister behind.

Taking the sea of goodwill that exists for those who have served and building connections for them within Wisconsin.

Helping them maintain camaraderie in our communities and businesses through collaboration with our nationally leading resources here in Wisconsin.

Meet Our Team

Steve Janke is a Marine veteran, founder and CEO of Mission Wisconsin. He worked for the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs and Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation as the statewide veterans field representative and military talent attraction program Manager. He was a fifth-generation dairy farmer in South Central Wisconsin.

Jen spent nearly two decades as a logistics coordinator, planning her family’s moves and adventures, crisscrossing the United States and the Pacific Ocean as a Marine Corps Spouse. With that came the public relations experience of meeting new people and developing lifelong relationships.

Japan was her favorite duty station, but she is coming to love the Midwestern kindness and beauty of Wisconsin! She is excited and dedicated to helping the military-connected community and Wisconsin-based employers achieve success.

Why work with us

As a veteran himself, Steve Janke knows the challenges of transitioning from military life to civilian life. With this experience in his back pocket, Steve was instrumental in helping build the state of Wisconsin’s military talent attraction program.

Through this work, Steve traveled to military bases across the globe, connecting with on-base personnel and those working in the transition space. This helped him build critical connections to bridge the gaps between service members and Wisconsin businesses.

He also met one-on-one with service members and their spouses. He took great pride in helping these individuals find opportunities in the “Great State of Wisconsin.”

Steve is passionate about helping service members and their spouses make their transition to civilian life as seamless as possible. He is also a passionate advocate for Wisconsin, its employers and its way of life.