Steve Conner

Janitorial Agency Employee Profile

In 2005, Stephen Conner founded The Janitorial Agency, a professional franchise and marketing company, with his lifelong friend and business partner Dan Carey. The company is currently operating in the United States and Canada.

Steve has a strong work ethic that has been instilled in him from the time he could help on the farm. His grandfather put him to work and taught him how to earn his own money. At the age of 12 he knew how to profit from selling produce. By the time he was 16, Steve had his own commercial cleaning company, contracting company, and a tree removal service. Steve's grandmother was the vice-president of a 5/3rd bank regional branch and still today gives him solid advice on how to manage his employees and customers. Steve's father has been with Dean Foods for nearly 30 years. His uncle, who recently retired from Aramark, was the Director of Operations of the commercial cleaning division for over 20 years. His uncle has always provided insight and help with any business consulting Steve has needed. With this well rounded family, Steve has learned many good qualities from his role models that are needed to become a successful entrepreneur.

Steve enjoys outdoor sports and is a fishing and hunting enthusiast who spends some of his spare time promoting usaonthefly.com with his partner, Ken Van Every.

After graduating from high school in 1999 Steve went on to pursue a degree in ministry. Once he completed his ordainment Steve began attending Central Michigan University for a degree in Business Administration and Psychology. While attending CMU from 2001 to 2005 Steve worked at the Home Depot. He was known at the store for his ability to be a leader and in his first year, he was second out of over 1,800 stores in the United States for John Deere sales.

Today Steve is taking more classes at CMU to enhance his business skills and is completing his MBA. He works hard to ensure all his customers and partners are well informed and enjoys building personal relationships with all of them. Some of Steve's greatest skills and accomplishments include the development of advisory counsels in each industry he is involved with. Steve is a very detail oriented person and demands professionalism from his staff. Steve is a role model to his staff by battling the everyday demands of work, family and school and often works late and on weekends.

Steve and his wife Sheri have three daughters. Steve plans to instill the hard work ethic in his children and he hopes to see them take an interest in the company as they get older.

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