For Schools, Nonprofits & Anyone Who Shows Up for Kids
Your Staff Care Deeply.
They Just Weren't Given
Training This Focused.
Most people working with high-behavior kids and stretched-thin families were never taught the emotional regulation and co-regulation skills that make this work sustainable — not because they weren't paying attention, but because no one ever taught it. We help schools and nonprofits close that gap, one team, one training, one leader at a time.
"The people I work with aren't missing effort or heart. They're missing training nobody ever gave them. That's the gap we close — together."
Where We Start
A few things we've learned after 15+ years in this work.
What We Hear From Leaders Like You
The behaviors are real. So is the exhaustion. You're not imagining any of it.
After 15+ years working alongside schools and nonprofits, a few things come up in almost every conversation we have with leaders:
- Staff managing intense behaviors every day with training that never touched regulation or co-regulation
- Turnover that keeps climbing, no matter how many new people you bring in
- New initiatives asking more of an already-stretched team, without giving them more support to match
- A staff that genuinely cares but doesn't always have the tools to stay steady when things get hard
- Leadership approaches built for a different era, doing their best against today's very real challenges
- Not enough hours in the day to figure out where to even start
"The people I work with aren't failing. They're doing exactly what they were trained to do. The problem is that what they were trained to do was never enough for this work — and that's fixable."
Dr. Jennifer Ulie, Founder, Mensana Wellness SolutionsHow We Work
You don't have to overhaul everything to get started.
Some organizations bring us in for one training. Others want an ongoing partner as they build something bigger. Both are a great place to start — here's what that can look like.
Training & Consulting
Support for Your Team, Your Way
From a single training for your support staff to an ongoing partnership across your organization, we meet you where you are. No engagement is too small to matter, and none is too big for us to help you plan.
Explore training & consultingLeadership Development
Building Leaders at Every Level
Leadership development that goes beyond the people at the top. We build capacity throughout your team through coaching, cohort learning, and practice grounded in what your organization actually needs day to day.
Explore leadership developmentSpeaking & Keynotes
A Message That Sticks
Dr. Ulie delivers keynotes and workshops, from small team sessions to full-staff events, that give people something real to walk away with. Not theoretical. Not generic. Just useful.
Book Dr. UlieWhat the Research Shows
When staff feel equipped, everything downstream tends to get better.
These numbers reflect what tends to happen for staff, kids, and families when adults get the training they were never given the first time around.
Who This Is For
Leaders at schools and nonprofits who want their people to feel as supported as the kids they serve.
We work with mission-driven leaders across sectors — people who care about their staff and their outcomes in equal measure, and who are ready for something more useful than another one-off training day.
- Schools and school districts
- Nonprofits, large and small
- Child welfare and human service organizations
- Healthcare systems and community health
- Justice and corrections systems
- Any organization where people show up for kids and families every day
Wherever you're starting from, there's a way to begin.
Some of the leaders we work with are ready for a long-term partnership across their whole organization. Others just need one training for one team to get some momentum. Both are exactly the right place to start.
If you're not sure which fits, that's a completely normal place to be — that's what the first conversation is for.
We'd love to hear where you are.
From the Field
What leaders say after doing the real work.
"She captivated our attendees. She was engaging and entertaining, all while communicating a much-needed message. Her passion is contagious."
"This was the most relevant professional development I have ever taken part in. It came at a time I desperately needed strategies. I serve others daily — this helped me understand how to sustain that work."
"Cold hard fact: she held 200+ employees' attention for the last hour of a full 8-hour professional development day. This can only be done by a masterful presenter."
"I walked away from our first meeting feeling the importance of this work and moved by what we are doing for our community. It was one of the most impactful events of my entire career."
"Dr. Ulie equips educators, mental health professionals, and support staff with practical tools. Her emphasis on addressing root causes rather than over-focusing on behavior challenges the field to think differently."
"This course was unlike any other professional development I have taken. I genuinely looked forward to the learning every time I logged on. It helped me through some very challenging times both as a professional and as a person."
About Dr. Jennifer Ulie
Two decades of asking the same question: what do people actually need to do this work well?
Dr. Jennifer Ulie is a nationally recognized social, emotional, and mental health expert, speaker, and consultant who has spent more than two decades working alongside thousands of educators, direct-care staff, and leaders across education, healthcare, justice, and human services.
Her work has spanned roles as a teacher, professor, nonprofit founder, executive director, and elected school board member. She has collaborated with the NIH, CDC, DOJ, NIMH, and the Department of Education, sits on the Advisory Board for the National Center for School Mental Health, and has been featured on PBS, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX.
What she brings to every engagement isn't just an exceptional résumé — it's a genuine belief that the people doing this work deserve training that actually prepares them for it, and the frameworks to make that happen.
Meet Dr. Ulie
From Dr. Jennifer Ulie
Not ready to bring someone in yet? Start with your own team.
The Regulated Professional is a 10-session curriculum built around the training most staff never got: the everyday skills that make trust, communication, and steady leadership possible.
- Ten fully-built sessions with facilitator scripts, ready to run
- No outside facilitator required — your team leads it themselves
- Built for schools, nonprofits, healthcare, justice, and human services
Free Workshop
Not sure where to start? This is a good first step.
This free workshop breaks down the brain science behind dysregulation and gives you six practical strategies to reduce challenging behaviors, defuse crises, and help your team feel steadier day to day. Research-grounded, immediately usable, and built for the realities of your work.
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Wherever you're starting from,
we'd love to hear about it.
No pitch. Just a conversation.
You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out. Tell us what's going on with your team, and we'll help you think through what could actually help.
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