Workplace wellness training to prevent addiction and increase organizational effectiveness.

Welcome to STEPS Business Wellness ...

We deliver workplace wellness and personal lifestyle training to prevent addiction, increase organizational effectiveness, and return a great ROI. 

For maximum effectiveness, we recommend an integrated, multi-level program which can be specifically tailored to meet the needs of your company.

Our programs include a free introduction plus leadership, management, and employee training that changes lives and improves businesses.

A wide range of seminars, consulting, and coaching services are available and can be acquired individually in a flexible, modular fashion.  

There are massive gaps in the workplace programs available for mental health, wellness, addiction, and leadership and employee development.

As well as helping prevent addiction and improve the effectiveness of all employees, our programs can help save lives, families, and careers.

Virtually no organizations focus on the prevention of addiction or provide a holistic program that addresses the deeper issues affecting teams.

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You can increase employee productivity, reduce turnover expenses, lower medical costs, and reduce problems from accidents and incidents.

We are a consulting, training, and coaching firm based in Birmingham, Alabama that specializes in wellness and addiction prevention programs for companies.

We are one of the only firms in the country that delivers workplace effectiveness training specifically focused on preventing addiction for the individual and lessening the negative impacts on the organization.

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Steve Ward is a consultant, writer, trainer, and coach for lifestyle effectiveness and the prevention of addiction, and he and his family battled significant addiction issues of their own. Steve retired after 38 years with IBM to found the nonprofit STEPS. He has extensive experience in planning, marketing, sales, management, and consulting and has led numerous organizations. 

Our program includes methodologies and content from Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), an industry leading company whose mission is: “Catalyzing healthy work cultures from the inside out with science.”

Evidence-based OWLS programs were cited in the U.S. Surgeon General’s report on “Facing Addiction in America” (2016) as the only ones that met their criteria for effectiveness for workplace prevention.

Stories of Who We Can Reach

Matt
Matt is a CEO, and he wants what is best for his employees and the company. He wonders about the culture and team dynamics, and he knows (from statistics) some employees have addiction and emotional issues. He wants to help them, and his company.
Matt
Jeff
Jeff is a business man with an alcohol problem, and he is in denial. He didn’t want to go to his company’s seminar on resilience and addiction prevention.
But, to his surprise, he learned some things that helped him understand his problem for the first time.
Jeff
Susan
Susan is VP of Sales. She works hard and faces a lot of stress. Her use of pills has moved beyond “pain management” to a dangerous habit, but she doesn’t know what to do about it. An information session at work opened her eyes, and she used the information they gave her to stop using pills to escape her stress.
Susan
Fred
Fred suspects he is an alcoholic and is ashamed about it, so he keeps it a secret. His company offered a program with anonymous coaching, so he gave it a try. Talking to someone about his problem gave him a new perspective and removed enough of his shame for him to seek more help.
Fred
Eric
Eric is 17 and has used drugs for a few years. His dad went to a STEPS parenting seminar on addiction prevention to find hope for his son. The session not only changed how he parented Eric, but it changed him as a person, a husband, and an employee.
Eric
Don
Don has issues with control and pride. This makes him a toxic leader, and he micro-manages and berates his employees. Some have quit, and others are just putting in their time. Interestingly, a leadership session on wellness and resilience opened his eyes, and he is now dealing with his issues and getting better.
Don
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