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John Hope Bryant

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Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Operation HOPE

Named "Forbes 250 Greatest Self-Made Americans", U.S. News & World Report Top Leaders of 2025, "LinkedIn Top Voices: U.S. Influencers in 2020", American Banker magazine's 2016 “Innovator of the Year,” and one of TIME magazine’s “50 Leaders for the Future", John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, a CNBC and TIME contributor, and one of the nation's leading voices on financial literacy and inclusive captialism.

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John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur and civic leader working at the intersection of markets, public policy, and inclusive economic growth. He is recognized by Forbes as one of the 250 Greatest Self-Made Americans on the occasion of our nation’s 250th anniversary, along with Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Tyler Perry, and Serena Williams.

Often referred to as the “conscience of capitalism” by Fortune 500 CEO’s, Bryant has spent more than three decades advancing the idea that expanding opportunity is not only a moral imperative but an economic one.

He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, the nation’s largest provider of financial literacy and economic empowerment services, and the Founder and CEO of Bryant Group Ventures, which houses his entrepreneurial, investment, and advisory work.

Bryant is a CNBC and TIME contributor, and he is host of the NAACP Image Award-nominated podcast “Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant,” consistently ranked as a Top 100 podcast. His social media platforms have generated 1 billion video views over the past two years alone.

He has been recognized by TIME as part of its inaugural “40 Under 40” class and, thirty years later, the inaugural TIME Closers list. In 2025, he was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of its Top Leaders of 2025. 

Bryant is also a bestselling author of seven books. His published works, which explore economic empowerment, include his new book Capitalism for All (2026), Financial Literacy for All (2024), Up from Nothing (2020), The Memo (2017), How the Poor Can Save Capitalism (2014), Love Leadership (2009), and Banking on Our Future (2002). 

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CNBC Clip: How the U.S. can move forward after Capitol breach

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You Can’t Be Free Without Financial Freedom

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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

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John Hope Bryant

Aspiration and Opportunity

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John Hope Bryant

Aspiration and Opportunity

CNBC Clip: How the U.S. can move forward after Capitol breach

You Can’t Be Free Without Financial Freedom

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

Aspiration and Opportunity

John Hope Bryant’s Speech Topics

  • Leadership and Relationship Building

    In leadership and relationship management, anger is not a strategy. You can lead effectively without creating a fear-based environment by being mindful of the importance of managing relationships so that even your adversaries are left with their dignity.

  • How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

    Bryant radically redefines the meaning of poverty and wealth and exposes why attempts to aid the poor so far have fallen short and offers a way forward. 

  • Financial Dignity

    Though many of us are living without it, everyone is entitled to financial literacy, access to capital and equity of opportunity
    to create a secure future and realize their aspirations. 

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