About – Summit Wellness

Our Philosophy

We believe each person has unlimited potential to achieve far more than they feel is possible. In order to reach that potential, one must be able to envision their dream, embark on the journey, navigate and persevere through the storms, reach their summit and then use the momentum gained to create a new vision. This is a Summit Journey.

We believe that a healthy lifestyle is of paramount importance to obtaining the Summit Journey. Well-balanced nutrition, fitness, and mental health are the tools needed for achievement.

We believe when great effort is put into reaching personal summits, grand rewards will follow.

Michelle Lockhart

Chief Nutrition Officer

Michelle has been a Registered Nurse for 32 years. During that time she has practiced at the bedside in Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, and on the trauma team. She has been involved in education for the last 20 years beginning with teaching at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University Dental School to currently teaching in the Health Sciences department at Brigham Young University-Idaho. She has extensive experience in curriculum writing and program development. She developed several statewide health care programs for the Commonwealth of Virginia working with the Governor’s office. She also built the medical specialties programs for the Chesterfield Technical College in Chesterfield Virginia.

Michelle is a Certified Personal Trainer, a Certified Health and Wellness Coach and an Therapeutic Nutrition Practitioner through the Institute of Functional Medicine and a Fitness Nutrition Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She developed the highly successful MoreEnergy nutrition program. Her main focus is to provide nutrition and lifestyle education and coaching to those who want to take control of their disease risks and processes and live a healthier, more productive life.

She loves trying new things, learning everything about everything, and being outdoors and active. Most of all she loves her husband and their 7 kids, spouses and grandkids!

Martin Frey

Chief Journey Officer

Martin Frey, is a successful business leader, tech investor, and an accomplished mountaineer and sailor. In April 2016, he set a Guinness World Record when he became the only person to successfully climb the world’s Seven Summits and sail the Seven Seas.

Martin’s groundbreaking achievement follows a 30-year business career that included 13 years in Silicon Valley as a senior director for Cisco, where he ran a global organization supporting their largest customers while Cisco grew to become the world’s most valuable company. In 2004, he moved to Utah, where he served as the managing director of the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development, developing and leading programs to create, grow and recruit Utah businesses. Martin’s efforts were instrumental in helping Governor Huntsman lay the foundation for a highly successful economic development model that continues to be recognized at a national level.

Martin is passionate about inspiring the next generation of leaders and actively offers his time and talents to a wide array of organizations in the Utah community. He currently serves on several boards and advisory councils including the Brigham Young University College of Engineering, and University of Utah College of Humanities, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Utah County, and the Academy for Creating Enterprise. His current work focuses on helping organizations scale their social impact and helping families better manage their screen time.

Martin graduated from BYU in Mechanical Engineering and from Harvard’s Advanced Management Program. He and his family live in Holladay, Utah.

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Website: 7summits7seas.org

Instagram: @7summits7seas

Aaron Ogden

Chief Fitness Officer

Aaron is a native Utahn who was raised in a family that actively embraced an outdoor lifestyle, using the four distinct seasons of Utah to become proficient at many outdoor activities. He graduated from the University of Utah in Exercise Science. Since sitting at a desk was not in his make-up, he pursued a career in health and fitness.

Aaron is a certified personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine, has Reebok Neuromuscular Training, is a herbalist from School of Natural Healing, and is a Wilderness First Responder.

Aaron is dedicated to his own self-development using continued education, community service and physical activity that pushes his own abilities. Some of the adventures he has done are backpacking for 6 months across Alaska with just the pack on his back, many adventure races, and whitewater kayaking on more than 100 rivers, including the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon. Each of these adventures strip the layers and help him to connect to who he really is.

Aaron has worked with many people and is continually amazed at how many people simply exercise for their health, but then do nothing to reward themselves for the effort put in. For this reason, he founded KOLIfit, a company that prepares people with the fitness level and skills to accomplish amazing things outdoors. His passion is to help people to experience life in the great outdoors.

Aaron’s spirit animal is the Bear Cub: Work hard, play hard and learn all you can.

Gordon S. Bruin

Chief Mental Health Officer

Gordon S. Bruin is an American Board Certified Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who specializes in helping individual’s recover and reclaim hope from the results of trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. He is a mind/body therapist who incorporates best practices from a clinical perspective that engages the whole person (mentally and physically) in the recovery process. He has 30 years’ experience in providing individual, group and couples therapy as well as program development and managing highly effective clinical teams.

He received a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and is also a graduate of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Leadership Institute. He is also a trainer in the clinical best practice of motivational interviewing.

His passion is in the field of quantum mechanics and the science of seeking the optimal performance state known as flow. His work is in helping others overcome deep seated mental help issues, which are inhibitors to living a life of peace, prosperity and positive influence.

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