Michelle Martin
Chief Executive Officer
As a creative wellness entrepreneur with a corporate past, my work is all about making an impact by measurably activating health and wellbeing in individuals and teams. A Canadian-born EU resident, I work with a global lens (and network) to support a better future of health for all, with a focus on sharing functional wellness, human potential insights, and augmented intelligence technology.
I hold a strong belief that being a high-performance human requires a much more comprehensive approach to health than is currently offered by conventional medicine. And the source of the insights that motivate my work today were a few key health and wellbeing experiences that have given me compassion for complex health challenges. These experiences include:
An “irreversable” autoimmune disease that I self-cured with lifestyle medicine.
A multi-system health crisis that Functional Medicine helped me survive, then thrive.
A silent meditation retreat where I couldn’t stop giggling (Must life always be so serious?).
A cancer support role that took me from Stanford and Mayo Clinic, to German precision medicine.
A former co-founder passing away from Lyme disease related mental health challenges.
Having worked with dozens of integrative and functional practitioners over 20 years, I am deeply attuned to the reality that success in any health journey is deeply personalized, and must balance health science with human psychology. That’s why my chosen view of wellness includes seven different “worlds”: sleep and restfulness, nutrition and hydration, exercise and movement, mental wellbeing and cognition, relationships and connections, stress and resilience, and environment and sensory experience.
My past work involves, in corporate, being the CEO’s communications advisor at the largest company in my home province (after an early career in journalism) and, as a startup founder, multiple successful ventures, including a collective intelligence technology startup, an art marketplace startup (acquired: 2016), a conference on entrepreneurial peak potential, and various Web3 investments.
In my personal life, I’m turning 40 this year, am a new mom, and am constantly applying Maka Health’s “Functional Wellness Way” to build out my own longevity lifestyle to continue to optimize my wellness holistically.