About Us
The Modern Finishing School Manifesto
We are on a mission to uncover a new and holistic idea of wellness.
Through this work we have come to value:
Growth over Gain
People are the center of everything we do. We are on a mission to making the individual healthy and happy. We also advocate strongly for human rights and equality for all people. We vow to put this ahead of profits.
IRL over Online
Just like whole foods are important to wellness, so is the richness of presence in real life. We celebrate the simple and the natural here. Hence, why we’re conducting workshops in person and in community as much as possible.
Mind over Matter
It all begins with an idea. For us, the idea is that the mind is vital to our happiness and success in life. We are aiming to shift the conversation away from performance to integrative holistic wellness.
Origin Story
Amanda Knarr has been an executive business coach for over the past 10 years, specifically focusing on high tech. She has worked with a number of cofounders over the years and recognized their interpersonal dynamics directly correlate to lasting business success. She joked that she offered marriage counseling for work wives and husbands until the parallels inspired her to found the Modern Finishing School.
Her aim is to fill in the gap that executive coaches miss, which is the integration to a more holistic wellness. She also inspires to provide the business savvy missing in traditional counseling services given her tenure as a consultant for Series A and B startups to C-suite executives of multiple Fortune 50 companies. Her industry experience aside from high tech includes; energy, financial services, government, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, media, retail, and telecom.
She holds an M.S. in International Economics from Georgetown and currently pursuing a M.A. in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Kentucky and is a 300 hour YTT.
