Leman Tech Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-19 · 13 min
#161 | “Nobody Prepared Me for How Lonely This Job Would Be.” In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska opens with a sentence she heard in a mentoring session: one that the person saying it had never said out loud before. "Nobody prepared me for how lonely this job would be." And she gives it the space it deserves. Leadership loneliness in tech is not social isolation in the conventional sense. It's something more specific and more corrosive: being the pressure plate between executives who want results and a team that needs stability, with nowhere to put what that actually costs you. Alex frames this as a structural feature of the tech leadership role, not a personal failure, and backs it with data: manager engagement dropped sharply in 2025, 71% of leaders report increased stress, and 40% of those are considering leaving. This is not a personal crisis. It's a systemic one. If you've ever felt alone in a room full of people, this episode tells you why, and what to do about it.
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