Uncover Your Path. Empower Your Future.

Personalized career consulting, business planning, and coaching to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

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About Us

Welcome to Minnesota Career Solutions, founded in September 2010. We have grown to be a trusted leader in career consulting, business planning, and personalized coaching. We specialize in helping individuals uncover their path—whether seeking meaningful employment, education planning, starting a small business, navigating career transitions, or personalized goal setting. Using a person-centered and strengths-based approach, we tailor each service to your unique qualifications, interests, education, experiences, and goals. Our experienced team is dedicated to helping you reach your goals with confidence.

Our Mission: To empower individuals to uncover their path and achieve their goals by providing compassionate, personalized consulting services that align with their unique strengths, aspirations, and potential.

Our Vision: We envision a world where every individual has the confidence, clarity, and support to pursue a fulfilling path—whether in work, education, or personal growth. We strive to be a trusted partner in helping people navigate change, set meaningful goals, and build a future rooted in purpose and possibility.

CARF Accredited Since May 2011: CARF International accreditation demonstrates a program’s quality, transparency, and commitment to the satisfaction of the persons served. CARF International is an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of human service providers in the areas of Aging Services, Behavioral Health, Child and Youth Services, Durable Medical Equipment, Employment and Community Services, Medical Rehabilitation, and Opioid Treatment Programs. (888) 281-6531.

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Our Services

Business Planning / Self-Employment

We guide individuals through the business planning process with a clear, step-by-step approach. Our experienced consultants provide personalized support, strategic planning, business consulting, financial planning, marketing strategies, and competitive analysis. From initial planning to launch and beyond, we are dedicated to ensuring your business’s long-term success.

Career Exploration

Our services empower job seekers to discover and navigate their ideal career paths. We offer person-centered planning, tailored job-seeking skills training, access to labor market insights, and opportunities for informational interviews and job shadowing. We help identify your unique strengths, skills, interests, and preferences, ensuring a clear and confident path toward fulfilling employment.

Job Search & Coaching Support

We tailor our approach to meet each person’s unique needs, providing personalized career support for achieving employment success. We offer guidance with networking, LinkedIn optimization, labor market insights, crafting strong résumés, uncovering job leads, interview preparation, and negotiating job offers. Our support helps employees build confidence, learn their roles, and succeed long term. We assist with job training, accommodations, and workplace concerns, while also partnering with employers to strengthen communication, resolve issues, and foster natural supports for a positive work experience.

Education Planning & Exploration

We provide personalized support to students throughout their post-secondary education journey. Our services are tailored to each student’s unique needs and goals, offering assistance in selecting schools, registering for classes, and managing academic responsibilities. We also help identify needs and accommodations, access resources, develop time management and organizational skills, and create meaningful connections between their chosen degree and career aspirations.

Personalized Coaching – Uncovering Your Path

No two journeys are the same—your coaching experience shouldn’t be either. We offer personalized, one-on-one coaching designed to meet you exactly where you are. Together, we’ll identify your goals, uncover what’s holding you back, and create a custom action plan that fits your unique strengths, challenges, and aspirations.

Meet the Team

Justina Cloutier
Justina Cloutier

Founder & Career Consultant

Justina is the Founder of Minnesota Career Solutions, launched in September 2010, and brings more than 20 years of experience in career coaching, business planning, and personal goal setting. Throughout her career, she has successfully supported over 1,500 clients to uncover their path in their personal, professional, and educational goals. She assists individuals in navigating life and career transitions with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Embedded in the belief that every individual deserves the tools, support, and confidence to pursue a meaningful path forward, Justina’s coaching style is warm, goal-oriented, and deeply collaborative. She meets clients where they are, helping them identify strengths, goals, and purpose. Known for her ability to balance encouragement with accountability, she empowers individuals to break through barriers and follow through on their path with confidence and clarity.

Her specialties include career exploration, education planning, self-advocacy, networking, interviewing, personal goal setting, job seeking skills, and small business planning. As an entrepreneur herself, Justina has a passion for helping aspiring businesspersons bring their ideas to life. She guides clients through every phase of the business planning process, from concept to implementation, offering strategic insights and personalized support along the way.

Justina holds a B.A. in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Minnesota–Duluth. Her reputation for excellent customer service, genuine connection, and consistent follow-through continues to make her a trusted partner and leader in personal and professional growth.

Kelly Kennedy
Kelly Kennedy

Career Consultant

Kelly joined Minnesota Career Solutions in April 2016 and brings over 15 years of experience in the social services field. Her expertise includes conducting situational assessments, facilitating job placements, and managing programs. Kelly is deeply committed to supporting individuals with disabilities and empowering them to achieve success through employment.

She is an active member of the National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) and currently serves on the board of the NRA's Job Placement Division (NRAJPD), as well as the Minnesota Job Placement Division (MNJPD) board. Kelly is also a past board member of the Minnesota Rehabilitation Association.

Throughout her career, Kelly has been recognized for her dedication, receiving the JPD Placement Person of the Year award in 2011, the Lori K. Sterner Memorial Award in 2018, and the Barbara McCarty Memorial Award from NRAJPD in 2022. In 2018, Kelly also became a statewide Placement 101 Trainer.

Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice from Colorado State University.

What Our Clients Say

"I would like to thank you for all the support you gave me throughout the job search process. I don't think I would have done it without you. Keep on doing what you do. You are good at it. Thanks again"
- Job Seeker

"Minnesota Career Solutions Career Consultants are very knowledgeable and their ability to handle a diverse range of different disabilities, personalities, and job goals and be flexible to the needs of the consumers and the open communication with VR staff."
- Referral Source

"Sending gratitude for your help with my business plan! My little business is cracking open."
- Business Owner

"Thank you, You worked very well with my daughter and me. We have recommended you to others."
- Team Member

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Contact Us

Address: PO Box 381, New Prague, MN 56071

Email: jcloutier@mncareersolutions.com