AMERICAN BANKER INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who has built more than 40 organizations, entities and companies, including Operation HOPE, the largest non-profit financial inclusion organization in the country, and The Promise Homes Company, the largest for profit, institutional quality, minority controlled owner of single family rental real estate in the country.
Bryant believes that people who come from underserved communities, such as the ones he grew up in, from Compton to South Central Los Angeles, California, have unlimited potential to contribute and to positively impact and change this world. He believes that most every successful big business was once a small one. And that the vast majority of these small business examples the founder was a single entrepreneur who came from little-to-nothing – just like John Hope Bryant did – and was simply relentless in their pursuit to do something, to become something, and to BUILD something. He believes that there is an undiscovered Steve Jobs in every underserved community in America, and in the world over – and he has made it his business to help find them, worldwide. John Hope Bryant believes that within the vast ‘Invisible Class’ is untapped GDP, entrepreneurial brilliance, and untapped prosperity for all waiting to be born.
John Hope Bryant is in the business of both re-inventing each and every one to their God given potential to be great and boundless, and also to building a sustainable and transformational group of companies and organizations that are both highly successful, from commercial to nonprofit. Furthermore, Bryant believes that every entrepreneur can ‘do well and do good, too.’ Better still, they can ‘do well by doing good.’
John Hope Bryant has built a network of more than 40 entities that span from nonprofit and community to scaled commercial business enterprises and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. Today, these enterprises include some of the largest in the United States, in their sector or industry, and in one case, operates in more than 70 countries worldwide.
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‘Wall Street Project’ and Civil Rights Leader Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Sr. Honors John Hope Bryant with Lifetime Achievement Award at 27th Annual Economic Summit
The Rainbow Push Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund honored Operation HOPE Chairman, Founder, and CEO John Hope Bryant at their 27th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit on March 25th. Hosted at The New York Stock Exchange, the event applauded Bryant's...
“Financial Literacy for All” #1 on Amazon Best-Sellers List Overnight!
In less than 24 hours after the pre-sale announcement of my latest book, Financial Literacy for All, it has shot up to #1 on Amazon’s Best-Seller books in Economics. While I’m personally honored that there’s such a great demand for the book before its release, I’m...
Operation HOPE CEO John Hope Bryant Announces Release of Latest Book “Financial Literacy for All” on April 16th
ATLANTA, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Operation HOPE announced today that Wiley will publish "FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR ALL," written by its Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant, on April 16, 2024. From the best-selling author of "Up from Nothing, Love Leadership...