About Michael

 Michael Brook Author

                  Soaring & High Performance Living

Michael Brook is 67 years young and still soaring on trampoline, high diving, and aerial acrobatic skiing.  He is a speaker, coach, insurance professional, holistic health practitioner and the author of New Dimensions in Health.  He has a passion for living and sharing the principles of High Performance Living and optimal health creation to empower and inspire others to live their dreams of success.

Michael’s athletic accomplishments include state trampoline champion, a member of the Great American High Dive Team and the premier skier on the professional freestyle circuit in the aerial acrobatic event.  As an athlete, he had first-hand experience of the role thought, emotion,  imagination, and visualization play in enhancing physical performance and preventing injury.  In over 50 years of participating in sports where a slight mistake can cause serious physical damage Michael has never broken a bone in his life. These insights and experiences led him into the field of holistic health to explore how thought and emotion affect physical health which in turn affects one’s professional performance, quality of life and financial health.

This diverse background as an insurance professional with training in holistic health and an understanding of the mind/body connection gives Michael unique insights and perspective on minimizing risk and optimizing performance.  There is a huge difference between optimizing health on all levels, including financial and organizational, Vs fighting dis-ease by treating symptoms.  This holds true for individuals as well as organizations.

Michael’s passion for living and teaching High Performance Living inspired the founding of the Positive Air Team.  This group of professional athletes presented an entertaining, action-packed program sharing the message of “High Performance Living” to teach and inspire over a million students, staff and parents across the western U.S.  In addition, Michael has presented his High Performance Living message to organizations such as the:

  • U.S. Ski Team,                                                    
  • Colorado Department of Health
  • Utah Principals Association
  • Colorado School Counselors Association
  • South West Regional Training Center
  • Colorado Chiropractic Association
  • National Management Association
  • Continental Airlines
  • Qwest Communications

To bring these diverse experiences together Michael authored New Dimensions in Health: Simple Secrets to creating Optimal Health.  This also includes economic health.  The principles shared here empower individuals to enhance their quality of life, become more productive and make a greater contribution to the organizations of which they are a part.  This, in turn, supports those organizations ability to make a greater contribution to society. The principles that create optimal emotional and mental health are the building blocks of peak performance.  Inspire, inform and motivate your team to Soar with this fun, entertaining program.