Rachel Woolf

Senior Practitioner

“I thrive on seeing people, teams and organisations flourish.”

Expert In: Leaders & Organisations
Style: Energising, Engaging & Pragmatic

Biography

Rachel’s road to leadership and team development began on retiring from the Great British Rowing Team in the late 1990s. During her time in the team she experienced the taste of high performance as part of a several crews, medalling at two world championships.

However it was the disappointment of one of her crews not performing that ignited her interest and subsequent career in discovering and enabling what it truly takes to reach and sustain our full potential as an individual, team, organisation or community.

“Whatever I am involved in, my energy and passion are always focussed on how can I help the individual, team, organisation or community reach its full potential. I thrive on seeing people, teams and organisations flourish; re-awakening talents and ambition from within in-turn enabling them to achieve more than they ever thought possible.”
Rachel Woolf – Senior Practitioner

Track Record Style Qualifications

Rachel’s interest has turned into a passion and she has gathered a wealth of experience over the last 20 years. She has worked across Western and Central Europe, USA and Asia and extensively within the retail, professional services, healthcare, technology, utilities and financial service sectors. Rachel works with Executive teams where she loves the challenge of bringing under-performing or problematic teams together. She is equally at home as a conference speaker or personal coach.

Rachel has a long legacy of creating and implementing large scale, global leadership, talent development and women in leadership programmes which rolled out across multiple continents and spanned several years. These programmes have won awards and delivered proven ROI including significant uplifts in employee engagement. She now uses that experience to build and delivery highly specialised and impactful programmes to senior executives using the Complete’s world leading content and tools.

Rachel is known for becoming a long-term trusted advisor to her clients. Clients describe Rachel’s style as highly energising, engaging and pragmatic. “Rachel knows when to challenge and hold us to account and equally when to lighten the moment, have a giggle and create a safe space for us to retreat and reflect.”

Her style and openness is infectious and quickly builds trust. This in turn enables clients to have the key conversations they require with each other, or indeed with themselves. Rachel’s pragmatism ensures clients take the powerful insights they gain from each interaction and know how to turn them into action and progression back in their own environment.

Rachel is recognised by the Association for Coaching as an executive coach and is accredited in a wide range of psychometric instruments. She also has a BTEC HND in Business and Finance and was nominated BTEC Student of the year at Brunel University College on graduating.

“I have been fortunate enough to have had Rachel coaching me for over 10 years, supporting me to develop as a leader whilst navigating promotion, changes in career direction and most recently Organisational change. The skill I most admire, is her ability to judge where you are, and when you are ready to take the next step of development, as well as when you need to step back and regroup in order to move forward.”

CEOIDG

“I am immensely grateful for the transformative coaching journey I embarked on with Rachel. After experiencing the loss of a parent, and the loss of a job shortly thereafter, my confidence was at an all-time low, and for the first time in a long time, I had no clear sense of purpose.

As a coach, Rachel creates a safe space to explore issues openly, without fear of judgement. She masterfully balances support and constructive challenge, never shying away from probing questions and holding you to account to foster personal growth.
She will help you align your actions with your values and aspirations and I found the whole experience a beacon of positive change.

Rachel is also great fun to work with!! I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking a guide on their journey towards increased self-discovery and personal development. Tip: a good coffee and pastry place adds a little touch of pizzazz!“

Senior Marketing Executive

“I have really enjoyed working with Rachel, we teamed up at a time of really large change in my organisation and in particular my position in it.

Rachel’s advice and reassuring nature really helped me in my transition to new roles and the Coherence theories and practices have really turned my work life and ability to use and control my emotions in a positive way.

I am almost finished working with Rachel and I feel like a different person, thank you for helping me understand how my physiology, emotion and mental attitude are connected. I have found this really helpful and would not hesitate to recommend working with Rachel”

Matt VigarVice President Oncology Software Solutions Region Intercontinental, Elekta

“Working with Rachel always feels easy, and always produces great results. Rachel has a wealth of knowledge and experience which she brings to her role, as well as a refreshingly pleasant approach which, whilst being truly professional and productive, also makes for a fun conversation. I felt listened to when explaining my issues and the angles and ideas she created were clearly tailored to my needs, rather than force fitting an existing solution. Always happy to recommend Rachel’s work”

Bob Hughes

“Rachel is a true professional, knowledgeable and highly engaging trainer and facilitator and able to influence at all levels within an organisation, up to Board level.”

Emma BlairVP, Human Resources