As a seasoned senior vice president at a global tech firm, Sharon wasn’t expecting to feel emotional while listening to a keynote. But as former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy spoke, describing how loneliness has become a public health crisis, something clicked. “It wasn’t that the information was new,” she told us. “It was that I suddenly saw the evidence everywhere—in my team, in our culture, even in myself.”
