John Hope Bryant
Aspiration and Opportunity
John Hope Bryant
Keynote Speaker
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Operation HOPE
Named LinkedIn 2020 “Top Voices: U.S. Influencers,” American Banker magazine 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, and prominent thought leader on financial inclusion, economic empowerment and financial dignity.
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John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur, prominent thought leader, author, philanthropist, economic optimist, and a leading expert in financial literacy and inclusion. Referred to as the “conscience of capitalism” by numerous Fortune 500 CEOs, Bryant is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, Inc. the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of financial literacy services to youth and adults. Bryant is also chairman and chief executive officer of John Hope Bryant Holdings, Bryant Group Ventures, Bryant Group Advisors, and executive chairman of The Promise Homes Company, the largest for-profit minority-controlled owner of institutional-quality, single-family residential rental homes in the U.S. In December 2021, Bryant recapitalized into a new Promise Homes Company joint venture and successfully closed a $200 million credit facility to grow a new housing joint venture, marking one of the largest capital raises by a Black-owned company in more than a decade (according to Black Enterprise).
John Hope Bryant’s financial empowerment work has been recognized by five U.S. Presidents. He has served as an advisor to three sitting U.S. presidents representing both political parties. John Hope Bryant is responsible for financial literacy becoming the official policy of the U.S. federal government. He is the only American citizen to ever inspire the renaming of a building on the White House campus; from the US Treasury Annex Building to the Freedman’s Bank Building, in honor of Lincoln’s unfinished work to teach freed slaves about money, in 1865. Bryant also inspired the Treasury Department to host a Freedman’s Bank Forum, which has continued annually under successive administrations.
Bryant was named in 2024 by TIME Magazine to their inaugural list of The Closers, 18 global leaders working to close the racial wealth gap, he is a CNBC Contributor, host of the iHeart Radio podcast, “Money and Wealth with John Hope Bryant,” a member of the CNBC Global Financial Wellness Council and the CNBC CEO Council, and a best-selling author of six books, including Financial Literacy For All, released April 16, 2024. He is one of the only bestselling authors on economics and business leadership in the world today who is African American.
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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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Aspiration and Opportunity
John Hope Bryant’s Speech Topics
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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.
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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.
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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.
Works by John Hope Bryant
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Up from Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed -
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The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation -
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Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World
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