Chloe is both academic and practitioner. At LST, she lectures, supervises research and writes as a practical theologian, with interests including leadership, spiritual theology and preaching. Within the local church context, she spent a decade in leadership and now offers her time to the wider church in preaching, teaching and mentoring emerging leaders. Chloe also practises as a Carmelite-trained spiritual director, working often with evangelical leaders. 

Cambridge University gave Chloe her first degree, a Masters in Law, and was also where she met her husband. Some years after qualifying as a solicitor in a ‘magic circle’ City practice, Chloe then left the City to pursue theological training at LST alongside her leadership role with a church in West London. During that time she also fulfilled various teaching responsibilities here at LST and was then officially appointed to the faculty in 2014. 

Chloe’s doctoral thesis, Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship, was published in Routledge’s ‘Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology’ series. She has also published a number of academic articles (see ‘Select Publications’ tab), various devotional materials and she blogs on leadership and spirituality. 

Chloe’s interests within the area of practical theology include leadership, spiritual theology and preaching.  

Books and Monographs:

• The Glorious Risk: Freeing the Church from Managerialism and the Martyr Complex (forthcoming with InterVarsity Press, 2026). 

• Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship, Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles, Book Chapters and Reviews: 

• ‘“An Understanding of His Secrets and Grandeurs”: Teresian Perspectives on the Discernment of Visions and Locutions’, Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care (forthcoming in 2025). 

• ‘Directing Desire: Diagnosing Acedia and Dark Night in Spiritual Direction’ in: John of the Cross: Carmel, Desire and Transformation, Peter M. Tyler and Edward Howells (eds.), Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. 

• ‘Improvisations on a Theme: A Template for Freedom in Spiritual Direction’, Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction  30:1 (2024). 

• ‘“A Friend Even Though He is Lord”: Teresa of Avila and the Soul’s Relationship with God’, Studies in Spirituality 32 (2023), 337-352. 

• ‘Leadership Vulnerability: Its Concrete Expression and the Courage to Embrace It’,Journal of Religious Leadership 22:1 (2023), 30-51. 

• ‘The Heart of the Matter: Using Theological Reflective Method in Spiritual Direction’, Practical Theology 15:4 (2022), 342-353. 

• ‘Prophetic Imagination as a Mode of Practical Theology’ in: Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology: Theology that Impacts Church and World, Helen Morris and Helen Cameron (eds.), Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. 

• ‘Difficulties in Prayer: Diagnosing and Directing Acedia and Dark Night’, Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 28:2 (2022), 28-37. 

• ‘Review of Hopeful Influence: A Theology of Christian Leadership (Jude Padfield)’, Modern Believing 63:4 (2022), 419-420.