John Yent is a rehabilitation counselor, vocational expert, and disability services entrepreneur with nearly four decades of experience in the disability rehabilitation industry. He has been in private practice since 2003 and serves as a Vocational Expert contractor for the SSA Office of Hearings Operations, having testified in more than 10,000 disability hearings since 1997. In 2017, he founded Recovery to Work Disability Services, a national Employment Network under SSA’s Ticket to Work program, and in 2024 co-founded. WorkscapeAnalytics.com, a vocational software company. He is a co-founder of the Social Security Vocational Expert Section of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) and has presented at national conferences including IARP, ABVE, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Association of Administrative Law Judges, and NOSSCR.