Janise Brooks

Janise Brooks is President of PAX Financial Group, where she oversees the firm’s operational and strategic direction on behalf of the more than 1,300 households and 200 businesses we serve. She joined PAX in 2007, starting as an administrative assistant and earning her investment advisor, securities, and insurance licenses along the way before stepping into the President role.

That path gives Janise a rare vantage point: she understands PAX from the ground up, and she uses that perspective to build the systems, processes, and culture that let the firm operate with the rigor and scale of a much larger organization. She keeps the team aligned on PAX’s strategic objectives and accountable to its guiding philosophies, with a clear standard driving every decision, giving clients the best possible experience and taking care of the employees who serve them.

Janise’s approach to leadership is shaped in part by her own path. Her parents met in northern Japan, then moved to the U.S. and raised their three children, Janise and her two older brothers, in rural California. Janise took her first job on a neighbor’s farm, working her way through school on the values her parents instilled in her. That same drive has carried through her career at PAX and through her personal life as well; she’s been married for 30 years and is the proud mother of two children. She holds an MBA and an MS in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and applies both to how she builds and leads teams.