As a CEO, you’ve felt it.
That peculiar isolation that comes with ultimate responsibility. The absence of true peers. The weight of decisions no one else can fully comprehend. Research from Harvard Business Review, HEC Canada and NTNU Norway confirms that 50-80% of CEOs experience loneliness in their role. That’s a remarkable number.

The studies go further, documenting widespread (88%) difficulties in obtaining meaningful feedback, increasing social distance, imposter syndrome, and profound exhaustion amongst leaders at the top. Our experience from management, consulting, executive coaching, and entrepreneurship confirms the findings. These challenges aren’t due to an epidemic of personal shortcomings. They’re the structural reality of leadership at the highest level.

It doesn’t have to be like this.