Research Insights for Faith Driven Entrepreneurs
Across the globe, purpose-driven founders build more than businesses. They shape culture, serve communities, and advance the Kingdom.
Research Insights exists to study, curate, and spotlight the most meaningful work emerging across the movement. Research should fuel action. Insight should drive impact.
Groundbreaking Data
Practical action steps from the latest academic research on faith and entrepreneurship. Each study in one line, one thing to try, and the full article when you want it.
Your Faith Could Cost You the Deal, or Close It
Investors don’t penalize faith itself — they penalize vagueness about it. Founders who tied conviction to how they actually run the company closed more often.
Try this: Name your values in the first five minutes, then show the operating decisions they drive.Why Faith Driven Founders Hire Differently
Teams that framed work as calling reported lower turnover and more candid feedback — with no drop in performance.
Try this: Add one question about purpose to every final-round interview.The Loneliness Tax
Entrepreneurs who met regularly with peers scored markedly lower on burnout than those going it alone.
Try this: Block one recurring hour a month with founders who will tell you the truth.Sabbath Is a Strategy
Founders who kept a weekly rest rhythm made fewer reactive decisions in the week that followed.
Try this: Pick a 24-hour window. Protect it like a board meeting.Generosity and the Growth Curve
Companies that committed to giving before profitability grew no slower — and kept employees longer.
Try this: Set a giving percentage now, before the number gets big enough to argue about.Calling Is Not a Job Title
Founders who described their business as a calling delegated more and micromanaged less.
Try this: Write your one-sentence “why” and read it before your next hard conversation.
Entrepreneurs: Untapped Problem-Solvers in the Church
We partnered with Barna Group, the trusted research firm that has spent four decades tracking faith and culture trends. The question driving our research: what happens when entrepreneurs and church leaders collaborate for Kingdom impact?
We surveyed U.S. adults, practicing Christians, entrepreneurs, and pastors. The findings aren't just interesting — they're transformative.