Conner, James: - Jim Conner leads graduate students in designing locally funded business models for sustainable community development through establishing businesses that will fund local charities and expand local economies. Conner has a background in business, finance, construction, coaching church planters globally--under his guidance, over forty non-English speaking church plants sprouted from a single church. Leading churches through transition for twenty-five years, he has also had the privilege of training church leaders internationally for eighteen years.