Leadership Fellows People
Elizabeth Williamson, M.S.
Director
Elizabeth has a B.A. in Geography from the University of Vermont and has a M.S. from MSU’s Land Resources & Environmental Sciences. Post-college Elizabeth was a classroom and outdoor educator. After receiving her Masters, Elizabeth applied her human geography and spatial analysis skills to address wildlife and environmental conservation issues. After a decade, Elizabeth transitioned her focus to increasing access to multiple language learning in Montana. In 2017, Elizabeth founded the World Language Initiative - MT. Elizabeth has been working with the Leadership Fellows since January 2023 and is thrilled to bring her non-profit organization leadership training and practical experience to MSU’s leadership curriculum and teaching space.
Stephanie Lindsay, Ph.D.
Former Director, Current Faculty
After earning a Ph.D. in Leadership and Organizational Studies from Gonzaga University, Stephanie Lindsay became director of Leadership Fellows in the Fall of 2015. Stephanie had freelanced as a leadership specialist in academic, prison, and military medical arenas and taught distance learning courses in leadership to refugees in Mali, Jordan, and Kenya. Prior to MSU, she taught research courses to Master’s and doctoral distance learning students in an integrated medicine and health sciences program.
Becky Franks, M.S.
Becky Franks has been a leader in the nonprofit space for over two decades and received her Masters degree from Gonzaga University in Organizational Leadership. She brings this experience with an emphasis on team development and personal leadership when teaching Leadership Foundations.
Phil Ronniger
Phil Ronniger has an MA in Counseling from the University of Iowa, and specialized training, mentoring, self-exploration and experimentation in career management, optimal learning, applied behavioral sciences, organizational development, mediation, conflict resolution, and interpersonal communication.
He founded and coached in a career management firm, was a partner in an international career management firm, directed client services in an office of one of the top three career transition firms in the world, and served as a senior coach in the nation’s leading career counseling network. In addition, he has taught and counseled within seven diverse institutions of higher education for over 35 years.
Campbell Gerrish
Amy Williams
Stacey Williams
Dan Short
Kelsey Green
contact Elizabeth Roberts Williamson at [email protected].
The Leadership Fellows office is at 242 Reid Hall.
The phone number is 406-994-2016.
