Lake Zurich, IL August 5, 2010

TNS Employee Insights, a global leader in human research behavior, announced today their new alliance with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a global provider of executive education. This alliance provides TNS Employee Insight's clients an expanded best practices resource library. CCL's publications help clients successfully meet a range of challenges including personal development, talent management, strategic leadership, team building, and organizational improvement. TNS includes their best practices resource library with their action planning tool.

Ken Pfligler, Director of Business Development for TNS Employee Insights, said, "Developing action plans as part of the employee engagement survey cycle is critical to an organization's success. Linking our best practice resource library to CCL's publications provides an outstanding educational resource to our clients".

CCL's publications are organized into five categories and are available in both hard copy and eBook:

Leadership Systems

• Choose leadership strategies to address the challenges an organization faces

Diversity and Culture

• Develop leadership capabilities to harness the power of increased diversity in the workforce

Leading the Organization

• Guide organizations to build leadership capacity and cohesive cultures

Leading Others

• Demonstrate how individuals can work effectively with others

Leading Yourself

• Transform individuals into stronger leaders

Sylvester Taylor, Director, Assessment, Tools, & Publications for CCL, said, "We are pleased to enter into this alliance with TNS. This partnership will aid in our mission to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership."

About the Center for Creative Leadership

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is a top-ranked, global provider of executive education that unlocks individual and organizational potential through its exclusive focus on leadership development and research. Founded in 1970 as a nonprofit, educational institution, CCL helps clients worldwide cultivate creative leadership - the capacity to achieve more than imagined by thinking and acting beyond boundaries - through an array of programs, products and other services. Ranked among the world's top providers of executive education by BusinessWeek and Financial Times, CCL is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

TNS Employee Insights

TNS Employee Insights, a WPP (WPPGY) company in the Kantar Group, is a leader in survey research, consulting and technology. TNS Employee Insights delivers customized employee and customer surveys that measure the vital link between employee engagement, customer satisfaction and business performance. TNS helps organizations identify specific attitudes and behaviors that impact their bottom line and convert survey data into actions that enhance both employee and company performance.

The company's expertise in employee engagement, high performance organizations, and extensive normative benchmark data, delivered through a proprietary ASP survey technology, has made them an industry leader in employee research.