RE Seminar: Conley Wolfswinkel

        Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010
        Time: 4:30-6:30 with reception to follow
        Where: 198 Beck Center
        Attire: Business

The Cornell Real Estate Industry Seminar welcomes Conley Wolfswinkel, Strategic Management Consultant to W Holdings, to campus as the featured speaker on Thursday, April 29, 2010.

Chosen as one of the most influential business leaders of 2007 by the Phoenix Business Journal, Conley Wolfswinkel is now an advisor to the next generation of leaders at W Holdings, the trade name for several Wolfswinkel family-affiliated developments that include investment farming operations and many hallmark residential, retail and commercial developments. 

Conley began his business career while he was just a freshman in high school when he started leasing and farming land.  He is an authentic entrepreneur and has always been on his own payroll.  Conley’s love of farming continues today and his favorite Saturday mornings still involve visiting local area farms.  If you are lucky enough to know him personally, you are the recipient of a precious pecan harvest during the holiday season.

Over the years, W Holdings and its partners have been proactively improving the quality of life for current and future residents of Arizona.  Conley is a man who many perceive as being ‘ahead of his time.’ He is often asked to ‘read the tea leaves’ for Arizona’s future.

Conley demonstrates intense listening surrounding the stories of people, their motivations and desires about how and where they want to live and work.  In an unconventional way, he merges his awareness and qualitative understanding of human factors with his knowledge of land acquisition, development, and finance and business relationships to form a constantly stirring vision about sustainable and profitable place making. 

Leading universities have asked Conley to document his methods and perhaps he will do so one day.  He has enjoyed mentoring many real estate professionals over the years and his apprentices have become some of his strongest competitors.  Conley is a generous man and his generous family has donated time and money to many non-profit organizations in areas that largely focus on human development.