The Linking Center for Human Achievement

Be Your Own Hero Today



WELCOME TO THE LINKING CENTER FOR HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT!
Your Path to HEROING Your Own Incredible Story!

Navigating life‘s ups and downs can be tough. At the Linking Center we believe everyone has the right to captain their own destiny! We believe every person--every, single person has a right to access and source their happiness, joy, emotional acuity, wellness, and confidence no matter your story, no matter your background. 

If you are looking to live your best most incredible life, get a handle on your emotions, kill your anxiety, source your joy, confidence and peace of mind, develop your leadership and communications skills, and get to the business of being the very best version of YOU, we are right here to help you do just that!  Looking for a life and living skills boost?  Check out our workshops, products, and podcasts, and level up your life!


Mission Minded

Mission Minded

The LCHA is a place for learning. So many things vital to our healthy existence and survival and left out of school curriculums! Emotional acuity, leadership development, self and others awareness, and a seamless ability to seek and obtain deep connection with self and others. At the Linking Center we believe everyone has the ability and the right to achieve their greatness! Let's obliterate anxiety, fear, and doubt, and replace a life sorta lived with a life thoroughly revered!

Vision Driven

Vision Driven

At LCHA we envision a world where happiness, peace, joy, self love, consideration, and passion are lived out in people's everyday lives! We dare to envision a world where love exists as an action verb and people are so preoccupied with elevating their neighbors that they have no time to hate on themselves! It's a bold vision. Wanna join us?

Dr. Shalina J. Akins is on a mission. With the rampant rise of social anxiety, loneliness, and depression, there seems to be no viable end in site.  Until now! With over twenty years of experience in the counseling, coaching, training, mentoring, and education fields, Shalina J. Akins has leveraged all that she has seen and all that she has experienced as mental health counseling professional and has dedicated her life to making easier the lives of others! 

Through her work helping to promote healthy children, families, couples, individuals, and teams, Shalina discovered that humanity’s development of emotional acuity and leadership acumen are inextricably tied to our ability to source and sustain our own happiness and joy. She is committed to helping folks get there!

Shalina holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology, Masters in Education in Mental Health Counseling, and a Doctorate in Educational and Organizational Leadership! Her end goal is to create simple, fun, interactive, and immersive ways to develop strong, resilient, others-centered, whole, competent, and compassionate kids, individuals, organizations, and leaders. When she’s not rooting for the wellness of others, Shalina loves to clean, dance, learn languages, and go for long destination-free walks.

Let’s get you to your joy!

I'm here to listen, here to help!

Let's change all of this together!

Warmly,

Dr. Shalina J. Akins Founder
Organizational Leadership and Learning Ed.D.
Mental Health Counselor MA. Ed.
Certified Life Coach




The Boyfriend School

A weekend to change your life! Our Pro-Men, simple, and life shifting approach to skill building will help you level up your dating game/level up your life! Register for our next workshop in the events section!

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The Girlfriend School

A weekend to change you life! Shift your dating narrative and set yourself up for the win/win in your dating game and your life! Keep an eye our for our November weekend women's workshop!

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College Ready! Youth Leadership Development

Master the arts of leadership, communication, community building, and achieving academic success before you leave the nest! Look for our course offerings coming in December!

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Fit to Launch!

Skill building and leadership training for early career professionals looking to conquer and survive the rat race!

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Fishbowls and Neurorhetorics

Give your DEIB initiatives a glow up! Harness the power of absolute awesomeness with our 60 minute concentric circle interventions that bridge all "othered" populations across difference, distrust, and discord!

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The Boyfriend School
Worried love will forever elude you?  The Seattle dating scene is tough to navigate and dating apps don't make it any easier! Our unique approach to curbing the trend is to pour great in and keep it in! Great suggestions, great guidance, great insight, and grand shifting!  Give us a weekend to your life! 
The Girlfriend School
The war on men is in full swing! Let's help change the narrative and find a fresh approach and new perspective to getting exactly what you want and need out of Seattle's challenging and exhausting dating scene!  
College Ready!
Youth Leadership Development
Life after high school can be absolutely terrifying!  Whether you're heading into your first year, taking a gap year, heading to trade school, or staying at home, our youth leadership workshops are designed to help you muster up your courage and master your next steps towards absolute greatness!
Fit to Launch
Life after college can be tough to navigate especially if you're balancing new job, living at home, living away from home, creating a community, and staving off loneliness! Master the very fine art of living and thriving with the life and living essentials workshop!
Fishbowls and Neurorhetorics
Our incredible approach to promoting understanding across differences in an organization leverages our deep understanding that in order to feel as though we belong, we must first feel safe! Our interventions provide a unique culture shifting approach to building unfaltering bridges across any and all differences!
  •  11/15/2025 10:00 AM - 11/17/2025 03:00 PM
  •   Seattle, WA, USA

Seattle welcomes its inaugural Boyfriend School cohort! Finally ditch those dating blues!

  •  12/06/2025 10:00 AM - 12/07/2025 03:00 PM
  •   Seattle, WA, USA

Seattle welcomes its inaugural Girlfriend School cohort! Put an end to feeling out of emotional synch! Ditch the scrolling and workshop your way into absolute his and hers clarity!

  •  01/17/2026 10:00 AM - 01/18/2026 03:00 PM
  •   Seattle, WA, USA

Develop and refine your confidence, leadership skills, and communication acumen all in one weekend! These are the lessons that aren't taught in classrooms!

  •  02/21/2026 10:00 AM - 02/22/2026 03:00 PM
  •   Seattle, WA, USA

Finally! A course that's all about leadership life skills and living for that early professional! Have a school grad that you're still a little bit worried about? Np! Our quick fast paced 10 hour workshop will get them from flailing to flying in just one weekend!

  •  09/13/2025 09:00 AM - 09/25/2025 12:03 PM
  •   Seattle, WA, USA

LCHA Introduces Fishbowl Conversations for human connection! Our innovative approach to a powerful dialogue model brings empathy and inclusion to the Workplace in an effective effort to rehumanize others across difference!

  •  09/11/2025 08:05 PM - 09/11/2025 01:05 PM
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Welcome to hAPPy!

Feel better, faster
Check out our first product from our app creator studio! 

We're the only app that puts YOU at the helm of your emotional universe!

hAPPy will be launching soon! Click here to be among the first to test!

www.exploremyhappy.com

Let's get you to YOUR hAPPy! 

Shalina J. Akins

Founder

Ed.D in Organizational Learning and Leadership, MA in Education in Mental Health Counseling, over 20 years of experience counseling students, children, and families. Life designer, skill builder, innovator.

Hyacinth Lugtu

Project Manager

Seasoned Project Manager with over 6 years of experience driving successful IT initiatives. Expertise in Scrum Framework, cloud migration, and software development.

Chris Lee

Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack engineer with over a decade of experience. Bachelor's in Computer Science at Norfolk State University. Husband and father of a 2 year old princess, an energetic boxer, and a nosy hound.

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  • Service Length: 15 Minutes
  • Location:On Phone
  • Price:Free

 

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