John Hope Bryant is an American financial literacy entrepreneur and businessman. Previously the vice chair of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy and the chairman of the Committee on the Underserved, he is the founder, chairman, and CEO of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, a member of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, a co-founder of Global Dignity, a co-founder of the Gallup-HOPE Index, and the author of bestselling books on economics and leadership.
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In 1992, at the age of 26, John Hope Bryant was running a successful financial services firm when the Los Angeles riots broke out. After the violence and chaos subsided, Bryant saw that his community needed a 'hand up, not a handout,' so he founded Operat... SEE MORE