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Whitney Williams and the Art of Getting People in the Same Room
Before Whitney Williams advised philanthropists or ran for governor, she persuaded a university to offer a class. Her career has kept returning to that same question: who needs to be brought together to make something happen?
Michael FitzGerald and the art of sending something out
Before Submittable handled grants and applications, it handled a novelist’s frustration. In Missoula, Michael FitzGerald turned the business of getting read into a reason for people to stay.
Eric Siegfried and the trouble with an open landscape
He built onX to answer a hunter’s question: whose land is this? His next challenge was harder - helping people reach the public land they already owned.
The Intern, the Long Wire and the Work of Connecting Montana
Jason Williams entered Blackfoot as a law-school intern and returned to lead it through a costly rural fiber conversion. His advantage is not technological bravado, but a lawyer’s patience for trade-offs and a willingness to say where the company arrived late.
The Glamour Is the Wrapper. The Work Is Plumbing.
williamsworks has spent two decades turning celebrity, corporate and philanthropic intent into the unglamorous machinery of change - field research, local partnerships, funding systems and the patience to hand power over.
Keriann Strickland Built a C-Suite Career by Knowing Which Story Matters
The Billings-born journalist became Submittable's chief marketing officer without abandoning the editor's habit that got her there: find the human thread, draw the connection, and make every word earn its place.