John Hope Bryant

This is my generational plan for everything.

Jim Clifton, the chairman and CEO of Gallup, projects in his groundbreaking book The Coming Jobs War, that global GDP will be $200 trillion by 2040. Global GDP is presently approximately $60 trillion. That means that the next 28 years...

Our nation can and should feel proud of what we did to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. earlier this year, with the formal unveiling of the monument in his name in our nation's capital. That said, honoring the man is different from honoring his life's work, his commitments when...

When my now bestselling business book, Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World(Jossey-Bass), first came out I wanted it to become an instant New York Times bestseller. It was not. Many other books out that fall in 2009 did, but not mine.

Being...

I am a supporter of financial literacy. I am a constructive critic of financial literacy. Both are legitimate and essential in an honest dialogue. As HOPE Global Spokesman Ambassador Andrew Young said, "John, be skeptical, but don't be cynical. To be cynical is to be without hope."

Operation HOPE pioneered...

I believe this article articulates the single best weapon (our 50 million youth, grades 5th-12th) to address what many have called America's coming China challenge, but really, this article is not about America's future China challenge. This is about us, and what we need to do to sustain, extend, and...

Imagine what the world be like -- what would have happened in the global economic crisis, if everyone practiced one simple global golden rule -- dignity for all.

Beyond basic competence and honesty, if every leader believed in and stood behind only one ethic -- Ubuntu.

Ubuntu, which...

As the founder, chairman and CEO of a large non-profit organization which is the global leader for financial dignity, the only way we succeed (for our client) is to build bridges and to create successful partnerships. I am a common-sense guy, and I tend to want the right answer, even...

One thing that my 19 years as founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE has taught me is that helping folks is not so easy, and that often, "no good deed shall go unpunished." That said, we should all "do good anyway."

For confirmation of this, just look at...

With the launch today of the first ever White House Urban Entrepreneurship Summit in Newark, New Jersey, President Barack Obama is showing us a powerful, yet practical and achievable, new vision for all of America, and not just urban America. After all, we are all in this together.

What's...

As the nation acknowledges Financial Literacy Month, 2011, it is more obvious to me than ever that what we are going through now is not a just an economic recession, but a global reset, and that financial literacy is so much more than a brochure or website.

It became obvious...

Thanks to my friends at the Gallup Organization, our partner around the new Gallup-Operation HOPE Financial Literacy Index, I now have the data-backed evidence to "make the case" for the power of innovation and ideas in the success of nations; here in America and around the world.

Based...

What black folks need now, is not to be told that somehow President Obama is going to save them. President Obama is a brilliant man, but number one, he sort of has his hands full, and number two, it's not President Obama's job to save black folks. That was my...

Let me start by saying I love my country, America, and that is why I want to push her to "be better."

If you love someone, you push them to be better, and to be the best they can possibly be.

If you love yourself, you strive for...

What Uganda needs now is the same thing that most all of Africa needs, which is not only efficient and well thought out infrastructure, and a cross-border, trading-enabled transportation system, but even more so, what Uganda needs now is to nurture and launch a bold generation of young entrepreneurs, small...

Visiting Uganda last week as the keynote speaker for the 5th Annual Financial Literacy Week, hosted by Investors Club, Ltd, I was struck by how utterly beautiful Uganda is.

One of my heroes, Mahatma Gandhi, selected Uganda, at the base of the River Nile of all places in the...

I believe that BP is pretty much, well, toast. Does that mean that they are out of business tomorrow? No it does not. They may in fact be operating as an entity called BP for some time to come, and for legal reasons, others that are interested in assets of...

In May, 2006, two years before the subprime mortgage crisis hit the U.S., and by extension (as the U.S. is still the largest economy in the world) globally, my friend Robert Gnaizda, Esq., then general counsel with the Greenlining Institute, and I predicted the coming crisis in an Op-Ed we...

Riding through the vaulted streets of Manhattan, New York, you are constantly struck by the breathtaking architecture and the nonstop hustle and bustle of commerce, but one thing else stands out -- your mobile cell phone service also constantly drops calls. And this is in one of richest, most powerful...

I was honored to be asked to speak at the international conference of and for 100 Black Men of America this past weekend in Hollywood, Florida; joining more than a thousand African-American male leaders from throughout the nation and across the globe, all bound up in one shared mission --...

Recently, in speeches and articles (notably Bloomberg Business Week, April 2010), I have made the case that post global economic crisis, financial literacy is the new civil rights issue in the United States, and this past week, while speaking before at the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and...