Myonlinecoach

Our story.

After more than three decades working with entrepreneurs, senior leaders and teams, I saw first-hand the transformative impact the right conversations can have on performance, confidence, wellbeing, and growth. I also saw a significant gap. Access to quality coaching remained fragmented, difficult for organisations to navigate, and often unavailable to the people who could benefit from the most.

"I believed there was a better way."

Drawing on my experience as a coach, leader, and entrepreneur, I founded myonlinecoach, a technology-enabled platform designed to make trusted coaching more accessible and impactful, whilst preserving the power of genuine human connection. Bootstrapped from the ground up in Manchester and recognised as one of Tech Nation's Rising Stars, we've always believed coaching should be accessible to everyone. As we've grown, we've realised we're building something much bigger than a coaching platform. People want more than one-to-one coaching. They want access to learning, community, expert support, and development opportunities that create lasting growth, stronger connections, and meaningful change. That's why myonlinecoach is evolving into a platform that supports people throughout every stage of their personal and professional journey. So, our ambition is clear: to transform how people access the right support at the right time to help everyone find their own path to workplace happiness, wellbeing and success.

What I've learnt is simple.

People achieve extraordinary things when they have the right support around them. That's the philosophy behind myonlinecoach, and it's one I've lived myself. Turning an ambitious vision into reality takes more than one person - it takes a community of talented people who believe in the mission, challenge your thinking, and help bring big ideas to life. So....

Meet the team who are building something special.

Lesley Calland

Founder, CEO & Visionary

Lauren van der Walt

Head of Operations

Gayle Durham

Head of Community and Customer Experience

Kate Nuttall

Head of Health and Wellbeing

Thirupathi Peddapalli

QA Tester

Pavan Kalyan Aldas

Full Stack Developer

Vinit Gaikwad

UX/UI & Marketing Design Support

Over 100 expert coaches

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Vinit Gaikwad

Vinit Gaikwad

UX/UI & Marketing Design Support

Vinit helps shape the visual experience of the platform across digital products, website assets, and marketing materials. He contributes to user interface design, wireframes, prototypes, visual updates, user experience improvements, and creative design support, helping ensure the platform remains modern, intuitive, and visually engaging for coaches, coachees, and organisations.

With experience in UI/UX design, user research, prototyping, and visual design, Vinit brings a strong user-focused approach to myonlinecoach. Skilled in tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite, he supports the creation of responsive and user-friendly digital experiences while also contributing to social media visuals, campaign materials, and brand-aligned creative assets. His work focuses on improving usability, engagement, and overall user satisfaction across the platform.

Pavan Kalyan Aldas

Pavan Kalyan Aldas

Full Stack Developer

Pavan helps to build and enhance the platform across both web and mobile environments. He contributes to the development of scalable, user-friendly features that support a seamless experience for coaches, coachees, and organisations using the platform. His work includes frontend and backend development, API integrations, performance optimisation, infrastructure support, and ongoing platform improvements.

With experience in React Native, React.js, Node.js, and modern web technologies, Pavan plays an important role in delivering reliable and intuitive digital experiences. He has worked on authentication systems, reminders, notes, profile management, responsive interfaces, and cross-platform functionality, helping ensure the myonlinecoach platform remains efficient, stable, and easy to use across devices.

Thirupathi Peddapalli

QA Tester

Thirupathi helps to ensure the platform delivers a smooth, reliable, and high-quality experience for both coaches and coachees. He supports the testing of web and mobile functionality, API validation, performance testing, bug verification, and quality checks prior to deployment, helping the team maintain a stable and user-friendly coaching platform.

With over six years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, Thirupathi brings strong expertise in manual testing, regression testing, UAT, and cross-platform testing across agile environments. He has worked on a variety of digital platforms, including healthcare, productivity, and collaboration systems, and contributes to myonlinecoach by identifying issues early, supporting continuous improvement, and helping deliver a seamless experience for organisations, coaches, and employees worldwide.

Over 100 expert coaches

From CEOs, MDs, Sales Managers, Team Leaders, HR Managers and more, our team of coaches are well-equipped to support your organisation.

Your employees will be able to view chosen coach profiles and speak confidentially about the challenges they face, such as communication, managing others, leadership, career development, confidence building, improving clarity, understanding capabilities and more.

Kate Nuttall

Head of Health and Wellbeing

With over 25 years of invaluable experience, Kate is a highly respected Occupational Therapist and Health Coach.

She has led large-scale programmes across personalised care, community health and workforce wellbeing, bringing together clinical expertise with strategic insight to help organisations create meaningful, sustainable change.

Kate is known for her thoughtful, systems-based approach, supporting leaders and teams to improve wellbeing, strengthen resilience, and deliver high-quality outcomes that truly make a difference.

Gayle Durham

Head of Community and Customer Experience

With over 25 years’ experience in business growth and operations, Gayle brings both depth and warmth to the work she does. She is as comfortable shaping strategy as she is supporting individuals.

She has a real gift for building communities where people feel safe to be honest, supported to grow, and encouraged to take meaningful action. Within myonlinecoach, she helps create the environment that sits behind the coaching one that feels human, connected, and quietly powerful.

Her mission is to make sure people feel supported not just in their work, but in how they move through it.

Lauren van der Walt

Head of Operations

Lauren leads our operations at myonlinecoach, working from South Africa and supporting the platform globally. She brings a calm, thoughtful approach to everything that happens behind the scenes, ensuring that the experience for both clients and coaches feels seamless, reliable, and well-supported.

She oversees our global tech team and plays a key role in keeping the platform evolving, responsive, and fit for purpose. Lauren is deeply committed to building something that genuinely makes a difference, and her work underpins the quality and consistency of everything we do.

Her focus is on creating a strong, dependable foundation that allows others to do their best work.

Lesley Calland

Founder, CEO & Visionary

Lesley is the person many leaders, founders, and business owners turn to when they need space to think, perspective to navigate complexity, or support to tackle their next challenge. Her career has never followed a conventional path. From corporate leadership and higher education to entrepreneurship, property, community projects, coaching, and technology, she has built a rare breadth of experience that allows her to see opportunities and connections others often miss.

Known for her curiosity, commercial insight, and ability to ask the questions that matter, Lesley combines strategic thinking with genuine care for people. She has spent decades helping others unlock potential, navigate change, and achieve goals they once thought were beyond their reach.

Today, she brings that same boundless energy, wisdom, and determination to building myonlinecoach and supporting the next generation of leaders.