December 11, 2014
Where Are They Now: 7 Powerful Business Leaders Who Changed the Game
John Bryant
In President Bill Clinton‘s best-selling book Giving, he wrote, “John Bryant is a 41-year-old whirlwind of ideas and action. Lean, intense, focused, and completely positive in his belief in the potential of poor people to prosper, with ‘a hand up and not a hand out.’†If that isn’t a testimony of character, President Obama appointed the entrepreneur to serve on the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans in 2014.
The entrepreneur is a widely known figure who has received more than 500 awards for his work and is recognized worldwide. As founder and CEO of Operation HOPE, he leads the country’s first nonprofit social investment banking organization, which operates globally serving more than 1.5 million clients. He is the only African American who is a best-selling business leadership author; he is also one of the founding members of the Clinton Global Initiative and of the Young Global Leaders. The former U.N. Goodwill Ambassador to the U.S. will continue to provoke positive change.