CONSULTING· COACHING
Listening to oneself and others is both a professional skill and a human birthright. My work lives at that intersection — in workshops and coaching rooms, with teams and with individuals, in organisations that want their internal relationships to match their external purpose.
METHODOLIGIST | EXECUTIVE COACH | SPIRITUAL COMPANION | AMSTERDAM
RACHEL WOODROOF
Conflict Resolution
Where something has broken down, something can also be repaired. I work at the level of the relational rupture — not just the presenting problem.
International Relations
Cross-cultural intelligence isn't only about knowing other contexts. It's about noticing your own assumptions first.
EQ Development
The interior life has exterior consequences. This is the thread running through all of it — relational depth, psychological safety, trauma-informed practice, the moment of disclosure.
Coaching
Goal-oriented, but not shallow. Development that works at the level where strategy, identity, and inner life converge.
Soul Care
Not therapy. Not religion. The ancient practice of walking alongside someone as they listen more deeply to their own life — their longings, doubts, grief, and becoming.
Communications
Clarity is a form of care. I work with positioning, internal and external voice, and the alignment between what an organisation says it values and how it actually speaks.
Meet Rachel
I am driven by a single conviction that being heard is a structural act.
My background spans conflict management, international relations, business development, holistic soul care and coaching - a combination that doesn't often come together. It means I can build frameworks that hold up in boardrooms and sit with people in the tenderest, interior places of their lives.
I came to this work through my own encounters with systems that lacked listening skills — organisations, institutions, and structures that, though well-intentioned, still caused harm through inattention. As I learned these skills, I was changed by them. Calmer. Clearer. More grounded. I have spent the years since offering the same to others — and watching them reap the rewards too.
I believe the most consequential act of leadership is the quality of your attention. I believe soul and skill are not opposites. And I believe that presence and attunement is a human right that organisations either protect or quietly erode, one conversation at a time.
Discover How to Improve Emotional Intelligence at Work
Enhance your workplace dynamics with Rachel Woodroof Coaching. Learn how to improve emotional intelligence at work to foster collaboration and trust. Rachel offers customized coaching and workshops designed to teach how to improve emotional intelligence at work effectively, helping individuals and teams achieve remarkable growth and success. Start your journey toward a more emotionally intelligent organization today!
Emotional Intelligence is a Hard Skill
Rachel works with the Greenhouse EQ
Leadership Index — a framework that makes emotional intelligence teachable, observable, and measurable. At the centre is Attuned Listening: the capacity to hear what another is actually experiencing and respond to build trust.
We work with teams and leaders navigating psychological safety, neuroinclusion, and the relational demands of complex organisations.
For Rachel's personal writing, soul care work, and speaking enquiries, visit rachelwoodroof.com.
Emotional Intelligence in Numbers
58%
of job performance across all roles is attributable to emotional intelligence.
Talentsmart / Bradberry & Greaves
EQ > IQ
EQ demonstrates incremental predictive validity over IQ for job performance - and unlike IQ it grows with practice
Can Rooy & Viswesvaran, 2004
70%
of the variance in employee engagement is explained by manager behavior alone.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace
#1
Empathy is the #1 predictor of leadership effectiveness - above all other skills measured.
DDI Global Leadership Forecast, 2023
Greenhouse EQ Model
Emotional Presence
Generative Curiosity
Perceptual Accuracy
Calibrated Response
Goals
To build a recognised, evidence-based framework for emotional intelligence that organisations adopt as infrastructure - not inspiration. A methodology that certifies practitioners, and outlasts any single workshop.
To create a social enterprise that embodies the work — and makes it available to the people and communities who need it most. Present, grounded, and free.
Passions
I am driven by a single conviction: being truly heard is a structural act.
When a leader listens with presence, attunement and precision, trust forms, people disclose, and teams become capable of things they couldn't be before.
I want to make that skill - and the soul work underneath it - impossible to dismiss.
Direction
Toward measurable, evidence-based impact built on the EQ Index: the kind that strengthens institutions, develops individuals, and over time shifts how communities relate to one another.
Integrated Leadership Development
The most honest thing I can say about my leadership coaching is that it doesn't begin with strategy. It begins with the person.
It is directly informed by my practice of soul care — not therapy and not religion, but the ancient discipline of walking alongside someone as they listen more deeply to their own interior life: their longings, doubts, grief, and becoming. I use the term holistic soul care because the whole person comes — body, mind, history, and spirit — and is changed for the better.
Holistically healthy leaders make strong, healthy cultures.
Some come for a reason, some a season, and some for life. All are welcome.