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John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. Raised in poverty-stricken, gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, Bryant saw firsthand how our institutions have abandoned the poor. He details how business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. After decades of deprivation, the poor lack bank accounts, decent credit scores, and any real firsthand experience of how a healthy free enterprise system functions.
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John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and prominent thought leader on financial inclusion, economic empowerment and financial dignity. Mr. Bryant is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, Inc., the largest non-profit, best-in-class provider of financial literacy, and economic empowerment services in the United States for youth and adults. He is also the Chairman and CEO of Bryant Group Ventures, and Founder and Principal of The Promise Homes Company, which is the largest minority-controlled owner of single-family rental homes in the U.S. John Hope Bryant is named as one of Atlanta Business Chronicle's "The Power 100: Most Influential Atlantans of 2020", and Atlanta Business Chronicle's "Most Admired CEOs" in 2018, American Banker magazine's 2016 "Innovator of the Year", and one of Time magazine's "50 Leaders for the Future." Five past United States Presidents have recognized his work, and he has served as an advisor to three past sitting U.S. Presidents from both political parties. He is responsible for financial literacy becoming the policy of the U.S. federal government. He has received hundreds of awards and citations for his work, including Oprah Winfrey's Use Your Life Award, and the John Sherman Award for Excellence in Financial Education from the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Bryant also received an honorable mention in Inc. magazine's "The World's 10 Top CEOs" article that spotlights global servant leaders as the visionaries behind some of the most successful organizations.John Hope Bryant is author of the bestsellers; The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation (Berrett-Koehler, September 2017) , How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class (Berrett-Koehler, 2014) , and LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass, 2009) . His most recent book is Up From Nothing: The Untold Story of How we (All) Succeed. He is one of the only bestselling authors on economics and business leadership in the world today who happens to also be African-American.
