When we created WellSteps, we were both university professors, doing research, teaching students, and working with companies and worksites that were trying to help their employees to be healthier.

Together we have spent nearly 40 years in academia and we have worked with hundreds of companies. We have seen what works, what doesn’t, and what it takes to transform a worksite into a place where employees and their families can be healthy.

We both left academia because we knew that the only way individuals would do the things necessary to prevent chronic disease was if someone showed them how. We thought we could do that. We now call ourselves recovering academics because you can never really be cured of academia!

At the zenith of our recovery, Steve called Troy and they had a conversation sort of like this.

And the rest is history. We boogie boarded. We probably will again too. Most importantly, in that meeting, we built the foundation for the WellSteps solution. The WellSteps solution gets to the heart of problems we had both been studying our whole careers. Our solution works because it is simple and yet it has been called, Revolutionary by friends and colleagues alike. That is a great compliment for a couple of recovering academics!