Faith and business
were never meant
to be separate.
Rachel Sparkes has spent 26 years building people-first cultures inside some of the world's largest technology companies. She has led teams across 17 countries, built People and Culture functions from the ground up, guided organisations through mergers and acquisitions, and coached hundreds of senior leaders through the hardest moments of their careers.
And through all of it, she has carried a conviction that most people around her didn't quite understand — that work can be a vehicle for Kingdom purposes, that business can serve something far greater than profit, and that the way we lead can be an act of worship.
Rachel is a member of Planetshakers Church in Melbourne — and her faith is anything but private. Her walk has never been perfect or a straight line, but the love of Jesus in her life is the one thing she has never been able to argue with. It is the foundation everything else is built on.
That is also why Dunamis Business Movement is built as a social enterprise. Beyond the 10% tithe every Dunamis member pledges from their own business, Rachel commits 50% of all Dunamis program profits to Planetshakers Church — to fund the Empower Food Bank, Boom Buses youth ministry bringing the gospel to the city's youth, and International Missions. Business as worship. Commerce in service of the Kingdom.
And for years she walked into her workplace on Monday morning asking — am I building this for something bigger? Is there a place for people like me? For leaders who love God, love their church, and still feel alone in the unique tension of faith and business?
There wasn't. So she built one.
