ABOUT LEANNE
For the past twenty years, I’ve stood side by side with people as they’ve learned, developed, navigated change, had difficult conversations, made big decisions and worked out what comes next.
MY STORY
My personal and professional lives grew up alongside each other.
At 17, I became a mum. At around the same time, I started building a career in HR and people — so in many ways, my personal and professional lives grew up alongside each other.
I was learning how to be a mother while learning how people work. How we communicate. What motivates us. What happens when things change. Why we behave the way we do. What helps us thrive — and what can make life, work and relationships feel much harder than they need to.
Over the next twenty years, that became my career.
I spent those years alongside people — coaching, teaching, facilitating, developing, listening, questioning, navigating change and helping people make sense of what was happening around them and what came next.
THE MANY VERSIONS OF ME
I feel like I've lived multiple lives.
And been multiple versions of myself along the way.
I've been the corporate climber.
The director.
The business owner.
I've been focused and driven.
I've been completely burnt out.
I've been happy. I've been unhappy.
I've felt certain about where I was going — and completely unsure of what came next.
I've been the 17-year-old mum, growing up while raising a child.
And the thirty-something mum, starting motherhood again.
I've raised two children fifteen years apart — experiencing motherhood in two completely different versions of my life.
and I’ve been multiple of these people at the same time
THROUGH EVERY VERSION
Life kept moving.
There was still work to do. Children to raise. Bills to pay. Relationships to navigate. Decisions to make. People who needed something from me.
There was still an expectation — sometimes from other people and sometimes entirely from myself — to keep showing up and being something to everyone.
And somewhere amongst all of that, there were times when I found myself right at the bottom of my own list.
And the frustrating thing?
I usually knew what I was supposed to do.
Eat well. Get more sleep. Drink more water. Drink less wine. Stress less. Work less. Set better boundaries. Move my body. Journal. Breathe. Make time for myself.
We know the list.
Knowing what might make us feel better and actually making it work inside a full, complicated life are two very different things.
Because life doesn't stop while we're figuring ourselves out.
WHY I CREATED YNAP
I wanted to start with real life.
Not the life where we have endless time, energy and motivation.
The one we're actually living.
YNAP stands for Your New Accountability Partner.
I chose the name because I wanted to create the kind of support I think accountability should actually be.
Not someone standing over you checking whether you followed a plan. Someone alongside you, helping you understand what you need, what’s getting in the way and what might need to change for things to work in your actual life.
When we want something to feel different, we often go looking for support.
And so often, what we find is a plan.
A training plan. A nutrition plan. A morning routine. A set of habits. A list of things to start doing — or stop doing.
None of those things are necessarily wrong.
But they only work if they work in your life.
Because changing your life shouldn't become another full-time job. Looking after yourself shouldn't feel like another chore. And support shouldn't leave you with another list of things you need to find the time, energy or headspace to do.
I wanted to create something that starts somewhere else.
With you.
Who are you now? What does your life actually look like? What matters to you? What do you need? What works for you? What doesn't anymore? And how do we build from there?
Feeling better in your life shouldn't require you to build an entirely different life first.
How you think and feel, how you move, how you eat, the demands on your time, the things that matter to you and the life you're actually living don't exist separately.
So why should the support you receive be?
One person. One life.
Everything is connected.
THE YNAP APPROACH
COACHING
Understand yourself
MOVEMENT
Strengthen yourself
NUTRITION
Nourish yourself
I've lived it.
Learnt it. Studied it. Refined it.
Now I'm sharing it.
THE PROFESSIONAL BIT
My understanding of people has been built over the last twenty years — through my own life, my career, formal study and everything I've learnt along the way.
Professionally, I've worked across HR, people, leadership and transformation, progressing into senior and director-level roles and becoming a CIPD lecturer. Alongside that, I've trained in coaching, health and wellbeing, personal training, nutrition and weight management, learning and development, and project management.
They might sound like very different disciplines. To me, they're not.
Twenty years of working with people has taught me to look beyond the obvious. Coaching has taught me to ask rather than assume. Movement and nutrition have taught me about the body and the foundations of wellbeing. And project management has taught me to understand what it actually takes to make something happen — the goal, the moving parts, the risks, the dependencies, the roles we play and where accountability sits.
Over time, I've learnt to see those things not as separate areas of expertise, but as different ways of understanding the same thing: people, their lives, and what helps them make things work.
Because knowing what you want to change is one thing. Understanding how to make that change work in the reality of your life is another.
That's the thinking I bring to YNAP.
Maybe you know exactly what you want support with.
Maybe you just know something needs to feel different.
Either is enough.
You don't need to have it all figured out.
START WHERE YOU ARE