Description

A Four-Week Executive Intensive — based on the book Schemas in Leadership by Daniela Aneva, MCC

Format: 4 modules (full days) Duration: 4 weeks Rhythm: 1 day per week

The Premise

Leadership isn’t what you do. It’s what you repeat.

Every leader operates from a set of invisible templates — schemas formed long before they ever led a team. These schemas shape which voices they trust, which conflicts they avoid, which successes they unconsciously sabotage, and which patterns they replay decade after decade in new organizations.

This program takes the framework from the book and converts it into applied practice. Over four full days spaced a week apart, participants map their own leadership schemas, diagnose the ones quietly costing them, and rehearse new patterns with a group of peers working at a comparable level of scale and consequence.

The leader you became under pressure early in life is not necessarily the leader your organization needs now.

The work is rigorous, relational, and discreet. It is designed for executives who are ready to stop managing the symptoms of their patterns and start revising the source code.

The Curriculum

Four full days. Four revisions of the self.

Module 1 — Mapping the Inner Architecture

Week One · Foundations

Surface the schemas that govern your leadership — how they formed, what they protect, and the price they quietly extract.

  • The five core schema domains at executive level
  • Personal schema inventory and diagnostic
  • Origin mapping: where the pattern was forged
  • The cost-of-repetition audit

Module 2 — Schemas in Decision & Power

Week Two · Strategy

How schemas distort the hardest calls a leader makes — hiring, conflict, capital allocation, succession, and the exercise of authority itself.

  • Decision patterns under uncertainty and fatigue
  • The four executive avoidance archetypes
  • Power, approval, and the schema of being liked
  • Live case diagnostics from participant practice

Module 3 — Schemas in Relationship & Team

Week Three · Systems

How individual schemas collide, entangle, and become culture — and how a leader’s inner patterns become the team’s operating norms.

  • Relational schemas between leader and direct reports
  • Team contagion: how patterns spread through a system
  • Feedback, rupture, and repair at executive altitude
  • Reading the schemas of the room in real time

Module 4 — Rewriting the Pattern

Week Four · Integration

Move from insight to revision. Build a personal schema re-authoring plan, stress-tested against the leadership challenges you return to on Monday morning.

  • The schema revision framework — from diagnosis to design
  • Rehearsal under simulated pressure conditions
  • Personal leadership charter and accountability pact
  • Closing integration circle and post-program protocol

Who This Is For

This program is built for leaders who suspect their patterns are leading them.

  • C-suite executives and senior functional leaders navigating a transition of scale, role, or ownership
  • Founders and CEOs who sense a recurring pattern shaping their business and their team
  • Heads of People, Talent, and Transformation who want to apply the framework within their own organizations
  • Seasoned coaches and advisors seeking a rigorous schema-based methodology to bring to client work
  • Board members and investors whose influence depends on the quality of their reading of other leaders

Led By

Daniela Aneva — MCC, EMCC ESIA, ACTC, Chartered MCIPD, SHRM-CP

Founder and CEO of MentorsPro, co-founder of EMCC USA, and author of Schemas in Leadership. Daniela brings more than two decades of executive coaching and organizational transformation work across global technology, healthcare, and consulting organizations.

Her practice sits at the intersection of deep psychological work and operational business rigor — a combination that has shaped leaders across four continents and produced the framework this program is built on.

Enrollment

Full program investment: $1,650 Includes all four modules, program materials, and post-program integration call. Cohorts limited to 12 participants.