News Moves Fast
Your organization still has to make sound strategic decisions.
The Creative Leadership Network
News education for your elevation.Leadership insights to your advantage.
The TCLN Advantage analyzes current events to transform what's happening in the world into leadership education and professional intelligence for nonprofits, higher education, and civic organizations—examining the leadership, institutional, cultural, policy, power, and decision-making dynamics behind the news so leaders can see the connection often overlooked, ask better questions and make more informed decisions with greater clarity.
News Moves Fast
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Abike O. Washington — Founder & CEO
The TCLN Advantage
A news-based leadership publication for leaders and organizations in higher education, nonprofits, and civic organizations.
What You Get
Bi-weekly Leadership Analysis
News-based analysis that examines the leadership, institutional, cultural, policy, power, and decision-making dynamics behind current events.
Discussion Guides
Questions and prompts designed to extend the analysis into leadership conversations and professional learning.
Leadership Briefings
Focused summaries of significant issues, developments, and leadership implications.
Educational Resources
Additional resources that give leaders and organizations material to read, discuss, and use for professional use.
TCLN Network on YouTube
Weekly episodes and short clips from TCLN Network. Get the leadership insight behind the news, the context behind the conversation, and a clearer way to think about power, culture, decisions, and what's shaping the world around you.
Your TCLN Advantage
You don't need more news. You need a deeper way to think about what you're already seeing.
The TCLN Advantage brings together the leadership decisions, institutional forces, cultural dynamics, policy, power, and consequences behind current events—giving you a broader perspective on the issues that shape your organization, your work, and the people you serve.
You leave with more than information. You leave with a stronger perspective, better questions, and new ways to think about the issues in front of you.
Deeper context. Better leadership.
Organizational Access
License TCLN for your organization
Organizations can license designated TCLN content for use in leadership development, professional learning, executive education, leadership academies, and organizational discussions.
Choose Your Access
Individual Professional
$15/month or $162/year
For professionals who want ongoing access to The TCLN Advantage.
Organizational Access
Starting with a 5-seat group license at $729/year.
For organizations that want to make The TCLN Advantage available to their leadership, professional development, executive education, or organizational learning teams.
Need access for more than 5 people? Contact us for expanded organizational access.
Become a Founding Member
$250/year
For professionals who want to support the ongoing work of independent research, leadership analysis, and professional intelligence that serves higher education, nonprofits, and civic organizations.
The problem leaders keep describing
Your people consume news all day and still can't explain what it means for the work you lead.
Commentary tells your team what to think instead of how to think.
Leadership development content ages fast, while the headlines keep moving.
People are not powerless, they are often misled. Clarity restores power. Responsibility turns power into progress… and progress into building better systems.
In their words
What partners say
If you are interviewing Abike Washington, you are most fortunate. She is a born producer. She is reliable, dependable, honest, hard-working and dedicated to the project you assign her.
We are a 501(c)(3) organization since 1992. We are fiscal sponsors and we give grants to filmmakers each year. She contacted us to donate time and work with us. She has a good knowledge of the film industry. She has been a godsend to us.
She has been working for From the Heart during 2017, so I have first-hand knowledge of her abilities. She has helped us with our film grants. She has done an outstanding job. She has also reviewed projects for us and she has considerable knowledge of all areas of production.
I highly recommend Abike for your organization. She would be an asset to any production.
Carole Dean
President, From The Heart Productions
A straight forward person who never sugar coats anything. Her drive is amazing, which is one of the reasons I wanted to work on her current film project. I knew after meeting Abike and reading the script, I met quality. A quality of professionalism during the shoot and when it was all complete.
She has a great eye and a huge creative mind set.
Abike has great direction as a filmmaker, her strong will and boldness forces this great ability to make an actor pull from deep within grabbing those emotions and setting them before the camera.
As if no one else is in the room but the intended target. She's very compassionate, but firm and very considerate of others. I would definitely work with Abike on many more projects.
Yolanda Dare Williams
Filmmaker & Actor
Your guide
The news is our classroom. Today's leaders are the case study.
News gives information. Leadership development gives frameworks.
TCLN connects the two through what is happening right now — examining the leadership decisions behind the story, the systems they reveal to highlight the inspirations and consequences for leaders and the people they are in service to. The goal is not to have every answer. It is to ask better questions with meaningful context.
Read the missionThe Educate 2 Elevate Model
From Situations 2 Solutions
Study
Examine the leaders, decisions, institutions, facts, causes and consequences behind the story.
Question
Identify the leadership, institutional, or systemic questions mainstream does not fully answer.
Apply
Turn what is happening in the world into insight leaders can use to think more clearly, ask better questions, and make more informed decisions.
Bring the advantage to your organization
Bi-weekly leadership analysis, discussion guides, briefings, and licensed content your team can apply the same week.
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