About Us

Science-based since 1990

Healthy work cultures, from the inside out.

Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS) is a consulting and training practice in Integral Organizational Wellness™ — because the workplace shapes the well-being of working adults and their families.

From stress to resilience to thriving

Every workplace functions at a level of well-being. We help you identify where you are today — and move to the next level, and the one after that.

Stress

Strain, burnout risk, and reactive coping keep teams in survival mode.

Resilience

Individuals and teams build the skills to recover, adapt, and support each other.

Thriving

A healthy climate sustains itself — energy, connection, and well-being compound.

Our mission

We catalyze healthy work cultures from the inside out — with science.

Start with three short videos: who we are, how we work, and what we've built.

Who is OWLS

How OWLS works

Portfolio

Our values

How we show up

Integrity

It's all about walking the talk.

Evidence-based

We show proof — from clinical trials or reliable results across diverse settings.

Collaborative

The dream is in the team, built on trusted, strategic partnership.

Creative

We design, tweak, customize, brainstorm, innovate, experiment, and grow in the process.

Thoughtful

No quick fixes here. Deliberation, discernment, mindfulness.

Responsive

We stay agile, pivot when needed, and remain heedful throughout.

Our process

Every work setting is unique. Our process honors that.

We don't sell off-the-shelf fixes. We collaborate with you through four stages — and adjust along the way to keep your people engaged.

Step 1

Discover

Together we surface your organization's unique potential, risks, and current level of wellness.

Step 2

Customize

We tailor from our library of proven programs — team resilience, healthy leadership, wellness champions, climate, and mental well-being.

Step 3

Implement

With your own empowered involvement, we deliver the optimal service for your setting.

Step 4

Evaluate

We measure how things are going and make adjustments to ensure lasting engagement.

Our outcomes

$5M+
in funding from the National Institutes of Health and SAMHSA

That funding helped us design, implement, and evaluate outcomes with dozens of workplaces across diverse industries. And these results don't just emerge within individuals — they show up in teams and whole organizations.

Reduced substance misuse Enhanced productivity Reduced stress Improved mental well-being

More about OWLS

There is a positive feedback loop between individual health and overall organizational health. When workers are healthy and in balance, the whole climate at work becomes more vital, friendly, and socially healthy — and a healthy climate, in turn, helps employees stay well.

Our purpose is to help you understand, improve, and maintain that feedback system. Every engagement is grounded in scientific research and customized to your needs, using tools like employee surveys, culture audits, workshops, coaching from worker to executive, team retreats, assessment design, and policy development.

Clients have included: federal and local government, military, hospitality and hotels, healthcare, construction, police and 9-1-1, professional organizations, and higher education.

Our president, Dr. Joel B. Bennett, is available for public speaking.

Where is your workplace on the continuum?

Let's discover your organization's potential together — and build the customized program that moves you from where you are to where you want to be.