Brendan Miller oversees the operations of Friends, assuring that your funeral is a wonderful and effortless experience for you and your guests.
Brendan has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MPA from Harvard University where he was a Public Service Fellow. Professionally, he has focused on developing new initiatives that are expressions of his core values of community and sustainability. He has worked in the business, government and non-profit sectors over the past 15 years towards this goal. He has taught leadership at Harvard University and is trained in conflict resolution and facilitating emotionally difficult conversations. Through Friends, his mission is to introduce more personalized, heartfelt and environmentally-friendly options for those in need of funeral and memorial services.
Brendan has lost family and friends to cancer, illness and old age and felt a calling to reconnect with lost wisdom for navigating these transitions in more healing ways. This calling is an expression of his lifelong interest in the mystical wisdom, practices and rituals of the world’s religions. He has studied eastern, middle-eastern and western meditation and prayer practices, as well as the techniques of indigenous Shamanism.
He is certified through the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).