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.
LATEST STORIES

Promise Homes Secures $200 Million Debt Facility in December, 2021. One of the Largest for any Black Business.
As featured in Black Enterprise. After a lot of hard work, building The Promise Homes Company from a bold vision but a modest start up, started and run literally out of my and my then managing directors spare bedroom in June of 2017, the company is now positioned for...

When Giving is Getting. My Birthday, 2022.
Today, February 6, 2022, is my birthday. Honored to have circled the sun one more time, and lived life to the fullest while doing it. Giving, hopefully, at least as much as I took, along the way. Traditionally the individual celebrating their birthday receives gifts...
John Hope Bryant on MSNBC 11th Hour, with Stephanie Ruhle. The National Debate.
https://youtu.be/Bngo9PmR0uY I was honored to join my friend and MSNBC 11th Hour Anchor Stephanie Ruhle for a special Friday night segment on the State of our America. We dived into a lot of important topics, and were focused on solutions, and resolving our conflicts,...

John Hope Bryant on MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle, on Netflix Passwords, Etiquette and our Culture
https://youtu.be/3X3HT3L7TkE Sometimes seemingly simple discussions, mean much more. This session with MSNBC Anchor Stephanie Ruhle last Friday on ‘Netflix passwords’ was one of those times, and discussions. This was about our values, actually, and ‘what we value.’...

Delta Airlines Commits a $1,000 Emergency Savings Account per Employee for Financial Coaching with Operation HOPE
John Hope bryant, founder, Operation HOPE and Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Airlines, at Delta Town Hall. Sometimes, you experience magic in a bottle. That is the essence of the partnership between Operation HOPE and Delta Airlines. Operation HOPE is honored to have been...