Best Christian Workplaces Welcomes Faith Gaines as Vice President of Consulting

FAITH NEWS SERVICE – Mercer Island, WA—Best Christian Workplaces is pleased to announce the appointment of Faith Gaines as Vice President of Consulting. She will serve on the senior leadership team. Faith brings extensive global consulting and executive leadership experience from her tenure at Gallup, where she led employee engagement, leadership development, and organizational health initiatives across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Throughout her career, Faith has directed large-scale engagement surveys and 360 leadership assessment programs, coached senior executives, and built high-performing consulting teams. Known for translating complex data into actionable strategies, her work has helped organizations improve retention, strengthen culture, and accelerate business and ministry performance. She also served in executive director roles overseeing regional growth strategies and client partnerships, with consistent, high-impact results.

Deeply committed to helping organizations flourish, Faith is passionate about building thriving workplaces and is excited to align her experience with Best Christian Workplace’s Christ-centered mission.

“Faith brings exceptional global leadership experience, strategic clarity, and a genuine heart for people,” says Jay Bransford, President & CEO of Best Christian Workplaces. “Her appointment strengthens our commitment to serve Ministry Partners with excellence and to continue equipping Christian-led organizations to build flourishing, Christ-centered workplace cultures.”

As she steps into this role, Faith reflects on the importance of equipping leaders to cultivate strong, healthy, Christ-centered cultures: “Throughout my career, I’ve seen organizations thrive when leaders have the clarity and support they need to build strong, healthy cultures. I’m grateful for the opportunity to bring that experience to Best Christian Workplaces and to partner with ministries that are making meaningful kingdom impact.”

Best Christian Workplaces also extends heartfelt thanks to Giselle Jenkins and Cary Humphries, who faithfully served as Interim Co-Consulting Directors over the past year, helping guide this transition. They will resume their roles as Senior Consultants and Sector Leaders, continuing to serve Ministry Partners with excellence.

In conjunction with this senior leadership change, Robert Wachter, formerly Global Marketing Director, will serve as Vice President of Sales & Marketing. These changes to the senior leadership team equip Best Christian Workplaces to continue serving Ministry Partners and position the organization for strategic future growth.

Best Christian Workplaces looks forward to its next chapter of growth and impact in helping Christian-led organizations set the standard as the best, most effective places to work in the world.

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Media Contact

Robert Wachter
Vice President of Sales & Marketing
rwachter@workplaces.org
206.979.7593

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About Best Christian Workplaces

We equip and inspire Christian leaders to build an engaged, flourishing workplace. We believe that Christian-led workplaces can set the standard as the best, most effective places to work in the world. Our proven three-phase process of Discover, Build, and Grow takes the guesswork out of building a flourishing workplace culture. Best Christian Workplaces is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2002.

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