About Us — Wisconsin Return to Work Center

Jesse Roy Ogren, M.S., CRC, LPC - owner

Jesse Ogren earned a Master of Science in vocational rehabilitation at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He began his career in public rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Specialists Group in Phoenix, Arizona, and has owned the practice since 2008. He still works cases himself.

His forensic work spans personal injury, divorce, FELA, workers' compensation, and ADA-related litigation, grounded in vocational evaluation, case management, job analysis, and job placement. His clients include the vocational rehabilitation agencies of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, the Veterans Administration, and the federal government. He serves on the counseling board of IARP and holds certification as a Forensic Vocational Evaluator with the A-R-E-A Organization.

The office is in Minnesota. The name remains Wisconsin's, where the practice was founded in 1992.

Kenneth E. Ogren, M.S. - founder

Kenneth Ogren founded the Wisconsin Return to Work Center in 1992 and ran it until 2008. The firm advised employers on disability management, workers' compensation, human resources, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, and assessed vocational capacity for insurers and attorneys in long-term disability and Social Security cases. He testified as an expert in personal injury, workers' compensation, long-term disability, and divorce cases. He built the practice alongside Jesse, who took it over in 2008.

He has worked in vocational rehabilitation since 1974, when he completed his graduate coursework at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

From 1977 to 1984 he directed the Occupational Medicine Clinic at the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, overseeing its workers' compensation and employee health services.

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