HBR Guide to Better Mental Health at Work (HBR Guide Series)

CHAPTER 18

Living with Depression in the C-Suite

An interview with Paul Greenberg by Morra Aarons-Mele

When we discuss mental health at work, we often talk about what it means for individual contributors and people lower in the org chart. But leaders in the C-suite also struggle with their mental health—as well as worries about how colleagues might view them and whether their careers might be affected if their challenges were public knowledge.

Morra Aarons-Mele, host of podcast The Anxious Achiever, spoke with Paul Greenberg, CEO of the digital video firm Butter Works, about his decades of living through deep, chronic depression and suicidal impulses, while also finding success in a number of leadership positions. The discussion includes frank ...