Every leader operates from invisible mental models — schemas that quietly decide what they notice, whom they trust, and how they decide under pressure. The new book by Daniela Aneva, MCC, makes them visible. The program makes them changeable.
In modern leadership, the bottleneck is rarely intelligence. It's patterned reactivity. When you can name and reshape your schemas, you don't just become a better leader — you become a healthier human with more access to happiness, connection, and meaning.
Drawn from 25+ years of executive coaching across global technology, healthcare, and consulting — and the engagements of more than 5,000 leaders worldwide — the book identifies the recurring schemas that shape how senior leaders perceive risk, authority, belonging, and time.
How your nervous system reads the room before your rational mind does — and why calm leaders aren't fearless, but better-calibrated.
Who you inherited the idea of "a leader" from — and how that ghost still edits your boldness, your softness, your voice.
The hidden contract you make with every team you join. Rewrite it, and you stop leading to be accepted.
Under strain, schemas trigger rapid state shifts — vulnerable, avoidant, demanding, punitive. Recognize the flip, and you can choose the response.
A structured 360° assessment mapping which of your schemas are load-bearing, which are brittle, and which are quietly running the show.
Insight without repetition is theatre. Name. Honor. Choose. Rehearse. The four-step practice that becomes the leader you're becoming.
Sixteen weeks. Small cohort — capped at twelve senior leaders. Delivered virtually with two in-person intensives and a paired executive coaching engagement throughout. Built on the schema framework that powers the book.
Most leadership development focuses on visible behaviors — communication, strategy, delegation, executive presence, decision quality. Those matter. But they're not the source code.
Daniela Aneva's new book takes you beneath the behavior to the schemas — the deeply held templates that decide what feels safe, who deserves trust, and what counts as success. Drawing on schema therapy adapted for the boardroom, it offers a practical guide to recognizing 18 frequently observed leadership schemas — and the small daily rehearsals that change them.
Read the book. Join the program. Or both. The shortest path from where you lead now to where you sense you could lead next — runs through the patterns you've never been taught to see.
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