Leading the Wellness Connection to National Recognition

Steve Holt is the president and owner of High Impact Health and Fitness Services. Steve has been actively involved in the health and fitness industry for over 30 years. His career started as a fitness director at the YMCA. After six years as a professional at the YMCA, he moved onto Salem State College (Salem, MA) and founded the Wellness Connection, a comprehensive health promotion program offered to New England businesses. During the next 20 years as director of the Wellness Connection, Steve managed corporate fitness and wellness contracts for such prominent clients as Intel, Verizon, General Dynamics, Titleist and Foot-Joy, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and OSRAM Sylvania. Steve retired from Salem State College in 2003 and subsequently founded High Impact Health and Fitness Services the following year. The Premier Health and Fitness Resources website came online in 2005. The Wellness Connection was added to the company when Salem State College decided to discontinue the program and turn the business operations over to High Impact Health and Fitness Services.

Steve graduated from East Carolina University with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 1974. He obtained his masters degree in cardiovascular health from Northeastern University in 1984. He is a past regional president of the former Association for Worksite Health Promotion and has received numerous awards for his dedicated service to the industry and his professional achievements.

He lives in central Massachusetts with his wife Sharon. His twin children (Jessica and Jason) both work in professional positions in the greater Boston area. A lover of physical activity and the outdoors, Steve plans to spend many more years building the Wellness Connection and Premier Health and Fitness Resources into premier providers of quality health promotion resources.