Townsend Leadership Group

What if the Next Year Changed Your Life?

The skills we teach in the Townsend Leadership Program impact your leadership, your organization, your vision, your personal goals, your relationships, and your life.

These aren’t areas we believe should be left up to chance.

Join me online for an upcoming informational meeting about our Spring 2025 Groups starting in the greater Nashville area. (Limited spots available)

Dr. Brenda Keck on the benefits of TLP

TLP: Where Leaders Go to Grow

TLP is a 10-12 month group coaching program designed to accelerate your personal, relational, and professional growth through intensive regular gatherings with a cohort of 6-10 like-minded leaders. Brenda will leverage the power of group process to support each participant to apply the time-tested principles of John Townsend’s Competency + Character Leadership Model to meet their self-identified personal and professional ‘stretch’ goals. (Groups may be face-to-face or a hybrid of face-to-face and online. Check with Brenda about what is available at this time.)

Pillars of The TLP Experience:

Team Members

The heart of TLP is a group of individuals invested in their personal and professional growth. Your Director will gather team members from diverse settings and various fields. Possible candidates include CEOs, C Suite leaders, small business owners, managers, ministry leaders, and professionals looking to grow in their chosen fields.

Stretch Goals

Stretch goals are the three big-picture goals your Director and Team Members will help you set and achieve. These personalized goals will impact your leadership, organization, vision for the future, and address any current challenges.

The Director

Personally vetted by John Townsend, Dr. Brenda Keck is expertly trained in the Competency + Character Leadership Model and highly qualified to lead intensive TLP groups. She is passionate about developing leaders to thrive so that they can offer their highest contribution to their teams, organizations, & community for years to come.

Monthly Meetings

Each monthly meeting includes the essential components listed below. In addition, Brenda will incorporate other elements that reflect her personal areas of expertise.

Check-In

Chart stretch goals and individualized homework assignment progress at a roundtable for accountability and support.

Teaching

Participate in practical, interactive leadership lessons based on Dr. Townsend’s unique model and Brenda’s expertise with topics such as:

  • Vulnerable Leadership: The Foundation of Everything That Matters

  • Leadership and Handling Difficult People

  • 21 Relational Needs and How to Meet Them

  • Having Hard Conversations

  • Working from joy and preventing burnout

Work Group

Benefit from your team’s collective knowledge and experience during high-value, confidential work groups where you can bring your questions, roadblocks, or challenging decisions.

Process Group

Gain understanding, feedback, and solutions from members who understand your situation. Collaborate to help resolve any hindrances to your leadership success and growth.

Homework

Create a personalized monthly assignment based on the day’s didactic session to build skills that pertain to your stretch goals.

Individual Coaching Sessions

Maximize your growth trends with one-to-one time with your TLP Director.

Meet the Director


“My work is guided by a deep conviction that a leader will make their highest contribution to their organization, team, community, and family when they are thriving personally. The organizations, teams, ministries, and groups we lead will never be healthier than we are. My mission is to empower individuals to thrive personally and make their highest contribution to the world.”

Brenda Keck, Ph.D., LMFT

Brenda grew up in East Africa, worked in Singapore as a young adult, lived in four states, and has provided counseling, teaching, and coaching in over ten countries. The breadth of her experience has given her an appreciation and love for people from all walks of life facing a myriad of challenges. She currently lives (mostly) in the Pacific NW when she’s not in Alaska with her husband (who is running a fishing lodge in his semi-retirement). She is an associate professor in the Counseling program of The Townsend Institute (Concordia Un. Irvine). She focuses her personal work with people on empowering them to thrive personally, spiritually, and professionally. Her most cherished role to date is being “Marmee” to three grandkids.

  • Brenda has a bachelor’s in Education and Guidance and Counseling from North Texas State University, a BA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Richmont University, and a PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision from Regent University.

  • Brenda has over 15 years of experience working as a counselor and coach with leaders in in Asia, Africa, Eastern & Western Europe, and the U.S. to help them increase personal and organizational resilience, pursue intentional growth, and flourish. She has been a member of the core faculty in the Counseling program of The Townsend Institute at Concordia University Irvine since 2019.

  • Brenda has expertise and training in building resilience & wellness, preventing burnout and compassion fatigue, team leadership, trauma recovery, cross-cultural living, adult learning & development, and optimal personal functioning.

“Dr. Brenda Keck is a credentialed TLP Director whom we have certified in our training process. She has the skills and experience that make her the right person to lead a team. Brenda has not only been trained personally by me, but she took the TLP course for her own growth, so she knows the keys to your success at a deep level. Brenda will take you through your leadership process, and your outcomes will be very positive. Best to your leadership!”

John Townsend, Ph.D.
Founder, Townsend Leadership Program
Author, over 26 Christian Self-Help books

Contact Information:

BrendaLKeck@gmail.com