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Elevate Your Impact

Explore the Master's in Executive Coaching and Consulting from the Townsend Institute

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Facilitate Lasting Change in Leaders and Organizations

  • Increase your skills and talents. Learn how to be an effective executive coach to help top leaders and organizations achieve their goals.
  • Learn from world-class Christian practitioners. Have access to world-class thought leaders, researchers and clinicians, including renowned business leader Dr. John Townsend.
  • Optimize flexible learning. Our Master's degree program is fully online, with 7-week class sessions so you can work while learning. Complete your degree in 12 to 19 months.
  • Advance toward coaching certification. Complete hours toward the International Coaching Federation's Professional Certified Coach credential.

Why Choose the Townsend Institute?

  • A different approach to learning. We focus on relational learning, addressing the head and the heart through competence, character, and connection.
  • Founded on experience and research. Dr. John Townsend is a New York Times bestselling author, leadership consultant, psychologist and relationship expert. He has written 35 books, selling 10 million copies, including the top-selling "Boundaries" series.
  • A strong partnership. The Townsend Institute is housed within Concordia University Irvine. Centered on a Lutheran Christian worldview, Concordia is home to a thoughtful and caring community of learners.
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"The deepest experience that I have had in my life. Vulnerability + Love & Safety = Growth, Healing & Deep Connection!"

C Harvey Norman
M.A. Executive Coaching & Consulting

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Concordia University Irvine is a private, Christian university that is ranked nationally among the "Top Performers on Social Mobility" universities by U.S. News & World Report. Concordia is accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) and serves over 5,000 students annually.