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Men's loneliness is affecting their wellbeing and their leadership, and most workplace mental health frameworks are failing to help them, according to a positive psychology specialist.

Leaders, in particular, "are the loneliest category of workers, because it is harder to ask for help at the top when you are required to have all the answers for everyone else", says Tess Brouwer, a positive psychology expert and co-founder of Awake Academy.

Speaking to HR Daily ahead of Men's Mental Health Week in June, she notes that suicide remains the leading cause of death for Australian men aged 15–44, and of the nine people a day who choose to end their life, seven are men.

Many are feeling weighed down by loneliness and expectations at work and home, a loss of identity, and instability, particularly when they see "the writing on the wall" with AI, Brouwer says...