Laura was made a Teaching Fellow on Effective Christian Leadership at Spurgeon’s Theological College in 2022. She started providing church-based leadership training in 2010 and at Spurgeon’s in 2019.  She has led a Women Leader’s support group and co-led Leadership Learning Hubs since 2021. She also coaches and mentors women ministers.

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Laura has undertaken training in Biblical Counselling which she uses within coaching and church-based discipleship settings in both one-to-one and group formats,

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Laura was  a Lay Leader at Streatham Baptist Church between 2019-2022 and has experience in church risk management,  complex decision-making, challenging pastoral and safeguarding interventions, discipleship and racial justice strategy, service leadership, outcome measurement, Biblical Life Coaching  and  more.

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Since becoming a Christian in 1976, she has led on church and LifeGroup leadership training, a homegroup, youth group, drama group and pub outreach, discipleship, mentoring, prophetic encouragement, prayer ministry, worship and several surveys after three years leading a mobile theatre outreach in Youth With A Mission in UK and abroad.

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​Laura retired as a specialist mental health Occupational Therapist in 2018 after 31 year’s NHS management experience and six years in senior management where she honed skills in outcome measurement, training, service-user empowerment, disability equality and satisfaction surveys. She led a national special interest group for Occupational Therapists in eating disorders for 16 years providing Masterclass training, published research and ten national conferences, for which she received a Professional Merit and Lifetime Achievement Award. She received training in a wide variety of therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Analytical Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy, Family Therapy and more.
 

Laura was a Care Quality Commission Specialist Advisor and represented her profession at national advisory groups including NHS England’s advisory group for eating disorders, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Quality Network for Eating Disorders and NICE Guidelines. As Clinical Training Lead in Beat (the UK’s eating disorders charity) she developed eating disorders training packages and recruited over 20 trainers to deliver these to clinicians, educators, employers, carers and sufferers across the UK.

Laura is an action-oriented, natural leader who loves family, people, multicultural unity, and fun. She cares deeply about effective church leadership, discipleship and enabling people to overcome psychological distress. She enjoys zooming with family, jogging in nature, singing in the shower, digging the garden, sea-kayaking, painting, and thrashing Adrian at Scrabble.
 

Laura is passionate about enabling church leaders, and their partners, to lead effectively and make truly devoted disciples who make disciples.