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With manager development and burnout at the top of the 2026 HR agenda, founder Daniela Aneva, MCC, SHRM-SCP, offers organizations a practical way to change the patterns behind leader behavior, team conflict and change fatigue.
RUTHERFORD, N.J., October 7, 2026 — MentorsPro LLC, an executive coaching, team coaching and organizational development firm, today announced that its schema-based leadership and team development portfolio is now available to HR and people leaders across the U.S. and internationally. The offering helps organizations move beyond one-off leadership workshops to address the deeper, often invisible patterns that shape how managers decide, delegate, react under pressure and lead through change.
The timing reflects what HR leaders are reporting. In SHRM's 2026 CHRO Priorities and Perspectives research, chief HR officers named leadership and manager development, employee experience, and organizational design and change management as their top three priorities. SHRM's 2026 State of the Workplace survey found that workers, HR professionals and HR executives alike ranked stress and burnout as the second most pressing workplace issue — and earlier SHRM research identified poor leadership as a leading driver of workplace stress, cited by 40% of U.S. workers.
WHY MOST LEADERSHIP TRAINING DOESN'T STICK
MentorsPro's approach draws on Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema therapy framework, adapted for the workplace by Daniela Aneva in her book Schemas in Leadership (2026). Schemas are deeply rooted patterns formed early in life that quietly resurface at work — the leader who can't delegate because "no one does it right," the manager who avoids hard conversations to keep the peace, the high performer who burns out chasing an impossible standard. Skills training teaches leaders what to do; schema work helps them understand why they keep doing something else when pressure rises.
"Organizations invest heavily in teaching managers new behaviors, then watch those behaviors disappear the first stressful week back at work. The gap isn't knowledge. It's the automatic patterns leaders carry with them. When leaders learn to recognize those patterns and choose a different response, you see it in their teams — less conflict, better decisions, and people who actually want to stay." — Daniela Aneva, Founder and CEO, MentorsPro
The framework guides leaders through a four-step arc — Name, Honor, Choose, Rehearse — so insight turns into durable new habits that hold under pressure.
WHAT HR AND PEOPLE LEADERS CAN ACCESS
- Schemas in Leadership Certification Programme — for senior leaders, managers, HR business partners and internal coaches who want a repeatable method for lasting behavior change.
- Team Diagnostic and Team Coaching for Change — for teams navigating restructuring, mergers, new leadership or entrenched conflict.
- Executive Coaching — one-to-one coaching for senior leaders delivered by an ICF Master Certified Coach.
- 360-Degree Feedback and Team Assessments — including strengths, emotional intelligence and personality tools to ground development in real data.
- Coaching Supervision for Internal Coaching Functions — helping organizations that build in-house coaching maintain quality, ethics and impact.
MentorsPro clients include Stiltz (leadership training, team coaching, strengths, EQ, personality and team assessments, and executive coaching), BCI (team and executive coaching) and Google (The Mastery of Coaching coach accreditation programme).
"HR leaders are being asked to deliver stronger managers, healthier teams and smoother change all at once, usually with tight budgets. My aim is to give them something that works at the root, so the investment keeps paying off long after the program ends." — Daniela Aneva
COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION FOR HR LEADERS
Book a free 30-minute Leadership Pattern Consultation HR directors, CHROs, L&D leaders and people managers are invited to a no-cost session to explore the leadership and team challenges in their organization and identify where schema-based development can make a measurable difference. Schedule: calendly.com/daniela-aneva Email: [email protected] Web: www.mentorspro.co |
ABOUT DANIELA ANEVA
Daniela Aneva is the Founder and CEO of MentorsPro LLC and an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the ICF ACTC team coaching credential. She holds the SHRM-SCP and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD (MCIPD), and is accredited by EMCC as an ESIA coaching supervisor and an EIA Master Practitioner. She serves as Faculty and Mentor Coach at Rice University's Doerr Institute for New Leaders, is a Co-Founder of EMCC USA, and is one of three leaders of the ICF Community of Practice for Coaching Supervision. She is the author of Schemas in Leadership (2026) and The Anatomy of Panic (2024), and co-author of Becoming a Coaching Supervisor and Coach Mentor (Libri Publishing, 2026). She is also a CBT therapist and clinical hypnotherapist, bringing a psychological depth to leadership development that few coaching firms offer.
ABOUT MENTORSPRO
MentorsPro LLC is an executive coaching, team coaching and organizational development firm based in Rutherford, New Jersey, serving organizations in the U.S. and internationally. MentorsPro helps organizations develop leaders who perform under pressure, build teams that work through conflict and change, and create internal coaching capability that lasts. Learn more at www.mentorspro.co.
MEDIA CONTACT
Daniela Aneva, Founder and CEO, MentorsPro LLC
[email protected] | 201-753-6161 | www.mentorspro.co
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