Walter T. Wilhelm, chairman of Walter Wilhelm Associates, LLC, a Utah-based boutique consulting organization that helps retail and brand clients refine “front-end” processes, will offer a free public presentation providing background on himself and on Walter Wilhelm Associates. He will also address challenges facing the soft goods industries today, including the question “Made in the USA: Can apparel manufacturing ever return to the US at any kind of scale?”

While on the UNL campus both Tuesday and Wednesday October 7 and 8, Wilhelm will speak before several TMFD classes and will meet with faculty members and students in small group conversations. UNL faculty and students are invited to join TMFD classes in which Walter Wilhelm will speak, on a space available basis.

As a management consulting firm, WWA focuses on empowering apparel, footwear, and retail executives with the strategies, processes, and technologies that create tangible business value and sustainable competitive advantage. Their team’s deep industry expertise and their best practice knowledge base built from hundreds of successful projects around the globe, make WWA unique among consulting agencies.

For more information about his schedule, please contact the department office at 402-272-2911.