Dr. Alicia Britt Chole has often been compared to a velvet-wrapped sword: her voice is soothing and her messages are piercing.

She loves to study and teach less than trendy themes like what grows in barren seasons, the discipline of decrease, the use and abuse of spiritual authority, doubt as a growing pain of faith, and habits of a truly healthy soul.

An intriguing wordsmith, Alicia is a skillful mentor, an award-winning writer, and an international speaker. In a culture obsessed with all-things-new, Alicia brings ancient truth to life.

Alicia holds a doctorate in leadership and spiritual formation from George Fox Seminary and serves as the founding director of Leadership Investment Intensives (www.leadershipii.com), a nonprofit devoted to providing customized soul-care for leaders in business and ministry.

Along with her husband, Dr. Barry Jay Chole, Alicia lives in the Ozark countryside and enjoys thunderstorms, jalapenos, pickleball, twilight golf with Barry, honest questions, and pianos in empty rooms.

Alicia Britt Chole’s atheistic existence was dramatically interrupted by Jesus weeks before she began her university studies.Today, Alicia speaks to leaders and learners around the world about God’s nearness. Those who have heard her describe Alicia as an unusually disarming combination of realism and hope, intellect and grace, humor and art.

Alicia and Barry have been married for 34 years. Together they laugh a lot and enjoy life with their three amazing children in the Ozarks of Missouri.

Alicia holds a B.A. in Plan II pre-law (1983), an M.A. in Education (1994) from the University of Texas-Austin, and a DMin in Leadership and Spiritual Formation from George Fox Evangelical Seminary (2015).