VTRNgroup offers strategic consulting on veteran career initiatives for business and industry, universities, and colleges. Federal contractors have relatively new obligations to initiate affirmative action hiring programs for veterans, and one obligation is to establish […]
Our Work

Planning and Implementation
VTRNgroup assists with planning and implementation to reach your strategic goals. With extensive program ideation, creation, and management experience, James Schmeling, Eugenia Hernandez, and others can assist in planning and implementation for your strategic goals. […]

Speaking
James Schmeling speaks publicly, at private events for industry groups, to business and industry leaders, to higher education leaders, and to human resources leadership in public, private, government, and philanthropic organizations. James has spoken to […]

Coaching, Advising, and Mentoring
Sometimes you need an outsider who’s engaged to give you good advice, to look past the trees to help you see the forest. James Schmeling is experience in complex environments, working with diverse stakeholders and […]

Higher Education Intrapreneurs
James Schmeling is a nationally-recognized academic executive leader responsible for co-founding two, and developing a total of three, highly successful and impactful academic research centers and institutes at two universities. He collaboratively wrote, won, […]

Business-to-Business Commerce
James Schmeling has spend the past year and a half building the case for including veteran and spouse-owned businesses in Fortune 500 supply chains, whether supplying goods for resale or providing services and goods for […]
Recent Articles
Higher Education as a Civilian Incubator for Transitioning Veterans
One of my colleagues, Jared Lyon, uses the term “Civilian Incubator” to describe college as a transition strategy for service members and veterans as they re-enter the civilian world from their military service. Civilian accelerator […]
Seven Tips for Student Veteran Success
A recent Politico article considered several of the major decision-making roadblocks for college seeking veterans, such as the legal and regulatory scrutiny some colleges have faced for practices that have seriously hurt college students. The […]
Faculty and Staff Intrapreneurship
Faculty and staff members, particularly but not only in research centers, of higher education institutions can be the quintessential intrapreneurs. They focus on opportunities to garner funding from outside sources (typically foundations, government agencies, or […]
Seth Godin and Gardening
I’m not a gardener. But my mother-in-law is, and so is my wife. So we have beautiful plants and gardens at our home, that I have the privilege to enjoy every time I walk up […]
Veterans and Academic Intrapreneurship? What?
Wondering what veterans have to do with academic intrapreneurship? Simple, veterans and families, programs to support them, curricular development, evaluation outcomes, and more are all part of the intrapreneurial endeavor. I’d been in an academic […]
Strangers in Paradise – Veterans in Higher Education
Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class was the title on a book spine I just noticed on my wife’s bookshelf. We have a lot of bookshelves, and a lot of books we both brought […]