Meet Rachel

Rachel Woodroof works at the point where professional skill meets human depth.

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She is the founder of Greenhouse Amsterdam, where she works with organisations on emotional intelligence development — building the listening precision, self-awareness, and relational capacity that make teams and leaders genuinely effective. At the centre of that work is a simple conviction: being truly heard is not a luxury. It is a structural act.

Her path to this work was not direct. She studied International Relations with a focus on Peace and Conflict Resolution, spent time in post-conflict Bosnia, and lived in Nairobi working on war crime documentation with Darfurian refugees.

 

Those years gave her something no framework could: a close-up

understanding of what happens when systems — and people — stop listening to one another.

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She is a partner with Synarchy, a collective of practitioners working to build organisations that actually work for the people inside them. Her work there focuses on the human layer — the listening infrastructure and emotional readiness that makes every other organisational effort safer and more accurate.

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Alongside both of those, she offers private coaching for individuals wanting to develop their emotional intelligence with depth and accountability, and spiritual companioning for those navigating the harder questions beneath the surface.

She is based in Amsterdam and works across the Netherlands and internationally.