There was a time in my life I worked with somebody who was creating situations similar to the one described by OP. Though in my case all leadership was consisti

There was a time in my life I worked with somebody who was creating situations similar to the one described by OP. Though in my case all leadership was consisting of people who aimed on creating toxic situations. At the time it felt I was not able to openly name problems with CEO (I actually had a one-on-one with him and pointed problems but was called names). Later CEO was removed by those toxic people, so I did have a point. It does not make me feel that I was on the right side, on the retrospective I think we should have gone a few times and have dinner together to reestablish bond and only then I should have moved to talk about problems. I agree with you that OP should go and talk with CEO, but it might not be the first meeting OP should bombard CEO with prpblems he is seeing...