Living Your Hero’s Journey

As a consultant, trainer, activist, and ordained minister, Rev. Dr. Patricia Novick has focused on issues of personal growth, social justice, diversity, health, and the environment. She holds doctoral degrees in clinical psychology and in ministry, as well as master’s degrees in sociology and divinity. She designed and administered the first degreegranting holistic health program in the United States. The self-care wellness program she designed has been taught to more than ten thousand people around the world. She has led international programs to teach emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, self-sponsorship, nonverbal communication, and other topics, and she has consulted to organizations and coached individuals in those topic areas. She is a founding trainer at the Multicultural Leadership Academy, a nine-month program that is now in its ninth year, that builds transformational leadership skills and crosscultural team-building capabilities among Latinx and African American leaders in Chicago.