Shawn Vanderhoven (Author) Shawn Vanderhoven is a Partner at The Wiseman Group leading their development practice for senior executives and emerging leaders. He works with top brands like Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Tesla, building strategies to leverage their greatest assets: talent. He lives with his wife, Anne, in Menlo Park, California.Anne Vanderhoven (Author) Anne Vanderhoven is a writer, researcher, and co-founder of the consulting firm UP. She studies how leaders create the conditions where people can do their best work and is the co-author of the USA Today bestseller Pause: How to Lead Brilliant Work in a Busy World.She has a penchant for medieval and Renaissance history, especially the Black Death (hello, perspective). Fortunately, she balances it with a steady diet of comedians, so her family still invites her to dinner.