It's Lonely at the Top
CEO Strategies for Inspiring Yourself and Your Team
by Nancy MacKay
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Pub Date 5 May 2026 | Archive Date 8 May 2026
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Description
Leadership at the highest levels can feel overwhelming and isolating. CEOs, executives, and business owners often face intense pressure to perform, deliver results, and inspire others—yet struggle with burnout, disconnection, and self-doubt.
In It’s Lonely at the Top: CEO Strategies for Inspiring Yourself and Your Top Team, Nancy MacKay offers a proven framework for mastering self-leadership before leading others. Drawing on two decades of experience with more than five thousand leaders, she reveals how to prioritize health, strengthen relationships, reclaim time, and develop resilience.
Readers will learn how to inspire themselves daily, build unstoppable confidence, and create organizations fueled by trust and impact. Instead of sacrificing well-being for success, MacKay shows how leaders can achieve both.
This essential guide is for CEOs, executives, and aspiring leaders ready to move beyond isolation and pressure into clarity, confidence, and lasting influence.
Advance Praise
“Whether you are a CEO, President or C-Suite Executive, It’s Lonely At the Top provides practical advice for anyone wanting to be an inspired leader.”
― Jay-Ann Gilfoy
President & CEO, Meridian Credit Union, Toronto Member
"It’s Lonely at the Top provides a modern-day roadmap CEOs must follow to inspire themselves and their top teams to be unstoppable during challenging times.”
― Bill Tucker
CEO, Omicron Canada, Vancouver Member
“It’s Lonely at the Top challenges assumptions from CEOs about leadership, showing them how to become inspired leaders focused on impact, not ego and have a lot more fun along the way.”
― Sue Giplin
CEO, Motion in Canada, Toronto Member
“For over a decade, Nancy MacKay has been my CEO peer group Forum Chair. Applying the leadership strategies in It’s Lonely at the Top has enabled me to inspire myself and my top team.”
― Mike Trotman
CEO, Trotman Auto Group, Vancouver Member
“Nancy distills decades of wisdom into a practical guide for thriving as a CEO and showing up as the best version of ourselves.”
― Derek W Dobson
CEO and Plan Manager, CAAT Pension Plan, Toronto Member
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