About Patricia

Patricia Mulholland, MA, MT-BC, NMT brings a breadth of training and experience and a capacity for depth to her training and coaching.  For over 26 years, she was a senior consultant with The Ariel Group, a Boston-based company with a global presence, known for its methodology defined by theatre arts. She has worked with business leaders in academic and corporate settings all over the world including General Electric, Capital One, Liberty Mutual, Proctor and Gamble, Coca Cola, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the executive education programs of Harvard Business School, Columbia University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia.

Patricia’s career also includes three years as Director of Training for the Saltwater Institute, a non-profit foundation offering programs based on the values-driven work of Tom Chappell, co-founder of Tom’s of Maine,

She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and has trained extensively in voice with the Roy Hart Theatre, and master teachers David Darling, Bobby McFerrin, Claude Stine and Lisa Thorson.  In addition to her training/coaching work, Patricia earned a B.A. in Music Therapy at Berklee College of Music and is a board certified music therapist in private practice (www.BeYourNote.com).  She has been adjunct faculty at Maine College of Art and is a guest/artist lecturer at Berklee and the University of New England.

As an actor, she has performed widely in Southern Maine, including an original chamber theater piece, A Solitude of Space: Emily Dickinson: The Woman, The Poet, and the title role in the Maine premier of Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed.  Patricia may be heard on the audio book, I Only Say This Because I Love You, by Deborah Tannen.