My Boardroom Story

Helping You Move Forward

Brenda is an experienced and strategic director, with a unique combination of credentials and skills including her CPA, CMA, CGMA and MBA with strong organizational achievements in a diverse group of industries including retail and wholesale, sporting goods and outdoor equipment, home decor, apparel and soft goods, service industries, manufacturing, food distribution and production. 

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She has principled leadership excellence and a track record of meeting or exceeding goals. Brenda has highly effective people and team building skills: collaborating, creating and implementing innovative strategic solutions to drive growth and brand performance. Her deep commitment to working relationships built on trust, integrity, fun and collaboration to increase organizational effectiveness and success is clear in all she does.  Brenda is driven to move a company to the next level while being a transformational leader and advisor, using outstanding communication and presentation skills.

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She has executed on the monetization of investments for investors and liquidity for ownership and management by executing successful initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, mergers, acquisitions and asset liquidations.  Brenda has deep expertise in global organizations (Asia, Japan, Europe, North & South America and Australia), subsidiary management, joint ventures, M & A, infrastructure revitalization, systems implementations, high growth situations and turnaround efforts as an executive and director.  

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Brenda currently serves as a Director and Audit Committee Chair for Boot Barn Holdings, a publicly traded western lifestyle retailer, and is also a former member of the Governance and Nominating Committee.  Brenda also serves on the board of Duluth Trading Company, a publicly traded lifestyle retailer, and is a member of the Compensation Committee and Audit Committee. Brenda also serves on the Advisory Board for Asarasi, a firm pioneering the recovery and bottling of naturally pure tree-drawn water.   Ms. Morris also serves on the board of H & W Franchise Holdings, dba Xponential Fitness, a curator of boutique fitness brands, where she is Audit Committee Chair. Brenda is the Past-Chair of Washington Business Week, an organization for teenagers interested in practical business experiences, a current Director for National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Pacific Southwest Chapter, a current Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) Regent, a past Advisor for Operatunities, a non-profit providing arts experience to senior citizens, past member of the Executive Advisory Board for PLU’s School of Business; and is a guest speaker and active member of the AICPA.

She obtained her Undergraduate Degree in Business, Accounting from PLU, and her MBA from Seattle University focused on Organizational Behavior and Operations. She holds her CGMA, CPA (Inactive) and CMA.  Brenda is a past advisor for the Advisory Board for Proformative.com, an online resource and professional network for senior finance, accounting and related professionals. Brenda is also very involved with the NACD serving on the Pacific Southwest Chapters Sponsorship committee and active in sessions and educational opportunities.

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