Lonely At The Top? Your Nervous System Can Help | Author and TEDx Speaker Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes

What Do You Know To Be True? · May 7, 2026 · 58m

That feeling of it being lonely at the top, it's not a leadership job requirement. It's a signal that you're going against your nature.

And yet most leadership development doesn't talk about the impact of loneliness on performance, burnout, and well-being. Not enough at least.

Psychologist, TEDx speaker, and author Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes makes a bold case: our brains are relational organs, wired to regulate, heal, grow, and perform through connection with others. Yet most leaders have accepted the story that loneliness is just the cost of leadership.

In this conversation, Kerry-Lyn unpacks…