Vocational Expert Services

Jesse Ogren has experience in professional vocational services including forensic services for personal injury, divorce, FELA, workers compensation, and ADA related cases. He has performed vocational evaluation, case management, job analysis, and job placement with agencies like the States of Arizona, Wisconsin and Minnesota vocational rehabilitation departments, the Veterans Administration vocational rehabilitation department, and the federal government. He has served on the counseling board for IARP, he has been certified as a Forensic Vocational Evaluator with the A-R-E-A Organization, and he has been licensed as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor.

Mr. Ogren came to the Wisconsin Return to Work Center in 2008 after starting his career in Phoenix, Arizona at the Rehabilitation Specialists Group. He brought his knowledge of public rehabilitation programs to the company and continued working in that area. Although the office resides in Minnesota, the company maintains the name Wisconsin Return to Work Center because of its founding in 1992, in Centuria, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is viewed as historically important in the development of vocational rehabilitation programs nationwide, and Mr. Ogren received his training in the field at the University of Wisconsin Stout as a master’s level vocational rehabilitation counselor and evaluator.

In 1992, Mr. Kenneth Ogren opened the Wisconsin Return to Work Center. This company has provided ongoing management consultation services to employers on disability management, workers compensation, human resources, The Americans with Disability Act and provide vocational assessment services to insurance companies, and attorneys on long term disability cases and social security testimony. He provided expert testimony in personal injury, workers compensation, long term disability, and divorce cases.

Kenneth Ogren has worked in the field of vocational rehabilitation since 1974, when he completed his graduate courses at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. 

Mr. Ogren worked at the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis from 1977-1984. He was the Director of the Occupational Medicine Clinic, providing workers compensation and employee health services.

In 1984, Mr. Ogren became the Director of the Menninger Clinic - Return to Work Center in Topeka, Kansas. Until 1992 he directed two Project with Industry programs, a National Institute for Handicapped Research grant, and developed national training programs for disability management.