Ellen Wilson Leadership Center

About the Center

Anchored in the new Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center, the Ellen Wilson Leadership Center builds upon the college’s leadership legacy. It empowers all students to explore and enrich their leadership potential in ever greater ways during their college experience and beyond. The center is a robust hub for groundbreaking research in leadership and management topics, including an undergraduate leadership summit and programming such as a lecture series and Leaders in Residence.

The center spotlights — and expands — the university’s top-tier offerings and solidifies Bryant as a premier institution for educating the next generation of leaders.

“In a world with a lot of smart people in leadership, courage differentiates you.” — Ellen Wilson 

Key Initiatives

• Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows
• Women’s Leadership Institute
• Leadership certification available for all Bryant students
• Forté partnership
• Rich co-curricular programming, such as book groups and author seminars
• Experiential opportunities and learning labs
• Annual Undergraduate Leaders’ Summit
• Robust Leader in Residence program
• Mentorship matching and networking
• Undergraduate research opportunities

Wilson Leadership Fellows

Throughout their four years at Bryant, Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows have access to intensive co-curricular leadership training, stipends, and other opportunities. The program awards $5,000 stipends annually to 20 incoming first-year students who show strong leadership skills or an interest in building skills. The stipend can be used to fund leadership growth opportunities such as academic research, unpaid internships, attending conferences, and study abroad programs.

Wilson Fellows learn about leadership from faculty, leaders in residence, alumni mentors, their peers, and staff. This transformative opportunity helps shape their long-term path after Bryant — to be part of a community that focuses on leadership as a subject and on developing strong, bold, inclusive ethical leaders for the future. The goals of the program are to support a sense of confidence, empowerment, and belonging at Bryant; to enable the pursuit of greater leadership opportunities; to build confidence in the classroom and a stronger sense of self-knowledge; and to help students apply their growing leadership skills to a variety of situations and life experiences.