The origin of Life|After®
A program born from
lived experience.
Life|After® didn't begin in a boardroom. It began with a diagnosis, a family, and twenty years of expertise suddenly finding its most personal purpose.
Where it began
In November 2014, Rick Tyler's wife Holly was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Like anyone who has been through this knows — the world stops. Fear takes over. The crying and praying start. And then the battle begins.
Twelve visits to the infusion lab. Seventeen radiation treatments. Hair loss, weight gain, exhaustion that doesn't announce itself and doesn't leave on a schedule. And then, one day, Holly was cancer free. Their life after had begun — and they quickly learned that "cancer free" and "back to normal" are not the same thing.
Life after starts the day of diagnosis — not the day treatment ends. Everything changes. Even ordinary things become a challenge. And nowhere is that gap more visible than at work, where the world expects you to simply pick up where you left off, and your body and mind are still catching up to who you are now.
What they couldn't find — anywhere — was a program built for this exact moment. Not a general wellness offering. Not a disability claim. Something designed specifically to help a person who has survived cancer find their way back to the work that gives their life structure and meaning. That absence became a mission.
Est.
2015
The Tyler family
"We realized we could give back in a way that was uniquely ours — taking twenty years of return-to-work expertise and applying it to the people who need it most."— Rick Tyler, Founder, Life|After®
The foundation
Long before Holly's diagnosis, Rick had spent twenty years helping people get back to work. Through Tyler Ergonomics, his team had guided employees through recoveries from surgery, injury, and complex medical conditions — for employers ranging from small businesses to Fortune 20 companies. The knowledge was there. The specialist relationships were there. The care coordination process was there.
What Holly's diagnosis changed wasn't the expertise. It was the urgency — and the reason. They took everything they had built and shaped it specifically around the people who needed it most: cancer survivors trying to find their way back to a workplace that doesn't always know how to meet them.
Tyler Ergonomics has managed complex return-to-work cases across industries and employer sizes since the early 2000s.
Unlike general disability programs, Life|After® addresses the specific, persistent challenges of post-treatment life: fatigue, cognitive changes, pain management, and the gradual process of finding your way back.
Each case draws on occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, ergonomists, nutritionists, kinesiologists, and more — coordinated remotely by a dedicated care coordinator.
Meet the founder
Founder & Creator, Life|After®
Rick Tyler brings over twenty years of occupational health and return-to-work expertise to Life|After® — built through Tyler Ergonomics, where he led engagements for employers ranging from small businesses to Fortune 20 companies.
His personal experience with Holly's cancer diagnosis gave Life|After® its urgency and its heart. He launched the program with a straightforward conviction: that cancer survivors deserve a structured, expert-guided path back to the work that gives their lives meaning — and that employers deserve a partner who knows how to help them provide it.
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Our mission
We are here to fight with you. To get you back to what you love to do and need to do. To remind you that work is more than a paycheck — it is identity, community, and a sense of normalcy that cancer tries to take away. Life|After® exists to help restore it, one person at a time, with the expertise and structure that journey deserves.
There is a Life|After.
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