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Meaningful work is not a lucky accident. It is a design problem.

Rachel Sparkes is Australia’s leading voice in Career Design and Love-Led Leadership. With 25+ years of People & Culture leadership inside Big Tech, she built two methodologies — Work It Real Good™ for professionals ready to design a career that actually fits who they are, and Let Love Lead™ for leaders building cultures where people do their best work.

She is the author of Work It Real Good: How to Find and Do Work You Love (2016) and the forthcoming Let Love Lead (2026), and the founder of Love Your Work Co. She coaches, consults, speaks, and runs retreats for professionals and leadership teams across Australia.

She believes that meaningful work is not a lucky accident. It is a design problem. And she has built the tools to solve it.

Rachel Sparkes

“The ultimate destination in any career is to do work you love, with people you like, getting paid what you’re worth — in a way that feels authentic and makes a difference.”

Rachel Sparkes

What grounds me

The Five Fs

Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness, Finance — the values I try to keep in balance, and the lens I bring to every conversation about work and leadership.

Faith

Foundational to how I lead. Not preachy — just honest.

Family

Mother to a teenage boy. Sister, daughter, and step-sister too.

Friends

The people who keep me tethered outside of work.

Fitness

Because a whole life needs a body that works, not just a mind that performs.

Finance

A plan that holds, so the work stays a choice.

Credentials

The paperwork, for the record