Executive Coach and Author Daniela Aneva Releases Schemas in Leadership — a Psychology-Based Framework for How Leaders Really Think

DANIELA ANEVA

EXECUTIVE COACHING  ·  LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2026

Executive Coach and Author Daniela Aneva Releases Schemas in Leadership — a Psychology-Based Framework for How Leaders Really Think — and Launches ICF-Accredited Trainings for HR Leaders and Coaches

New book, available now on Amazon, decodes the hidden mental patterns that drive leadership behavior. Companion Schemas in Leadership and Schemas in Team Coaching trainings bring the method to HR teams, internal coaches, and people leaders — with ICF Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units.

New York, USA — July 21, 2026 — Leadership-development author and executive coach Daniela Aneva today announced the release of her new book, Schemas in Leadership , now available on Amazon, together with two professional training programs — Schemas in Leadership and Schemas in Team Coaching — created to help HR leaders, internal coaches, and executives understand and change the deep mental patterns that shape how people lead. Both trainings are eligible for International Coaching Federation (ICF) Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units.

Every leader operates from a set of largely unconscious “schemas” — deeply held patterns of belief, emotion, and response formed early in life and reinforced across a career. These schemas quietly govern how a leader handles conflict, feedback, risk, authority, and relationships, often with more force than any competency model or leadership framework. Schemas in Leadership gives HR and talent professionals a practical language for seeing these patterns — and a proven method for shifting the ones that limit performance, derail high-potentials, or erode trust inside teams.

For HR and people leaders, the book reframes the challenges they encounter most: the brilliant executive who cannot delegate, the high performer whose behavior triggers complaints, the leadership team that keeps repeating the same conflict. Schemas in Leadership recasts these not as fixed character flaws but as schema-driven patterns that can be identified, understood, and changed — turning some of the hardest problems in talent management into coachable, developmental work.

“We spend enormous energy teaching leaders new skills, and then watch old patterns override them the moment they are under pressure. Those patterns are schemas. When HR leaders and coaches learn to see them, leadership development finally reaches the level where lasting change actually happens — in the individual leader, and across the whole team.”

— Daniela Aneva, author and executive coach

Two Trainings for HR Leaders and Coaches

The Schemas in Leadership training equips HR leaders, L&D professionals, and coaches to recognize schema patterns in the leaders they develop and to apply the framework directly in coaching conversations, leadership programs, and talent decisions.

The Schemas in Team Coaching training extends the model to the team level, helping coaches and HR practitioners surface and shift the collective schemas that shape a team’s dynamics, decision-making, and culture — the invisible patterns that determine whether a team scales or stalls.

Both programs are eligible for ICF Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units and are available for individual enrollment and for in-house delivery to HR, talent, and internal-coaching teams.

Availability

Schemas in Leadership is available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Schemas-Leadership-Uncover-Hidden-Power/dp/B0H6XXCZWP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=O402KLK62M9G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7rHy-cZeNnSEtE4FR2SYzPc7C-mlDAEQOlaAV4spur3QBHv6NAPEbxkT8ECUYkQpv9e2J8-mNZL2y17YS8XEcm2IF8I8QXn2nceVDXl0lg7G-qXlzRitm3aiHZpkwGGOuSr-N4VkYVexMImLy1CB4zVe-0sPt-7aohQd_FwRUA3PdRdqs397vJCr6f6asL2x6JTuy7rjbU22yfhmhzAJA5BPeNfgflrBUksowuF-Pug.he-apcP0JlimJHcjvHz-etyMp8voyafckVVROjpbVEU&dib_tag=se&keywords=schemas+in+leadership&qid=1784671872&sprefix=schemas+i%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

For training dates, enrollment, and in-house delivery, visit www.danielaaneva.com or contact [email protected] .

About Daniela Aneva

Daniela Aneva is an executive coach, author, and leadership-development consultant who partners with leaders at Forbes 500 companies, global enterprises, and fast-scaling organizations. Her work spans individual executive coaching, leadership and culture transformation, team coaching, and the supervision and development of internal coaches and HR leaders. Through her books and trainings, she brings the psychology of schemas into everyday leadership practice, giving HR and coaching professionals practical tools to create change that lasts.

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