Leadership Loneliness Resources
resources to support you:
Fast company article about CEO’s and found combat loneliness read it here
Forbes article around overcoming loneliness at work read it here
Founders Taboo, is dedicated to increasing the Awareness, Access and Affordability of support for founders mental health and wellbeing in the start-up space. Learn more about how they can help here
Psych Central article about how you can fight loneliness by focussing on your circle of influence read it here
The silent killer of loneliness read more here
Global statistics on loneliness trends read more here
Forbes article on Health effects of loneliness read more here
Read Lost Connections by Johann Hari here
Read How Loneliness Hurts and What to do about it by Vivek Murthy here
Personal insights: Why I need these resources in my life and work!
Read my blog post here about Is it lonely as a leader. When you are stepping into a new leadership role or if you are a start up founder, often the journey can feel quite lonely without some great support and networking
Top tips for leaders and founders to combat loneliness
Find a networking or leadership group outside of your organisation that can support you
Get 1:1 support from a coach who can help you work through your thoughts and feelings and develop strategies to support yourself
Make time for your social network, it can be easy to lose sight of other things in your life when things are busy at work or in your business, but know that you need to not be a leader sometimes, just be you!
Find a social cause or activity you can do with others at work, can you go and volunteer at a soup kitchen or charitable effort together
Make time to connect and share how you are feeling with your peers - I promise you are not alone and they are all probably feeling similarly alone and just the very act of sharing and connecting will reduce the feelings of loneliness.
