

Leadership Series: Pause: Lead Brilliant Work In a Busy World with Shawn Vanderhoven
You shouldn’t lose your team’s best work to distraction and burnout. With Pause, you won’t.
Pause equips you with 12 ways to deliberately tap the brakes so your team can go faster and bigger on top priorities, even as AI turns up the pressure to do more with less time to think.
From original research on leaders at 150 top companies from Amazon to Google to LinkedIn, you’ll learn how to triple your team’s focus—regardless of the chaos that surrounds them.
Shawn Vanderhoven leads the executive development practice for senior leaders and rising talent at The Wiseman Group. He is a keynote speaker as well as collaborator on the New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Second Edition).
As a Partner at The Wiseman Group, Shawn co-designs executive development strategies that help leaders and managers amplify their organization’s most valuable asset—its people. He has partnered with leading brands around the globe, including Amazon, Alphabet, Adobe, Capital One, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Salesforce.
He lives in Menlo Park, California, with his wife Anne, and researches how top leaders and teams sustain focus on what matters most—regardless of the circumstances.