James D. Copper
CLU, CFP®
Jim attended the University of Illinois as a James Scholar. Upon graduating in 1969 with a degree in math, Jim began teaching in Dwight, IL. He eventually moved to Mt. Pulaski where he taught and coached basketball until 1977, his team winning the State Basketball Championship in 1976. Jim left teaching and joined Northwestern Mutual Life in 1977, becoming one of a handful of pension specialists in the country.
In March of 2000, Jim and Ryan left Northwestern to build a more comprehensive planning practice. The independent and flexible structure of this new venture allowed Jim to more effectively use his years of experience as well as the expertise he had attained earning the designations of CFP, (Certified Financial Planner), and CLU, (Chartered Life Underwriter). Jim is the architect and implementer of the Confidence Focus Experience™, a unique life planning process. This process strives to enable its participants to build the confidence and financial freedom that allows them to enjoy family, hobbies and other personal endeavors.
Jim has a singular passion for seeing that his clients have the free time to pursue their hobbies, as he engages in many himself, among them fishing, hunting, and woodworking.
