John Hope Bryant

HOPE Snippet: Operation HOPE Partners with the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi, the Middle East

Mary Hagerty-Ehrsam, division president for Operation HOPE and the HOPE Global Youth Empowerment Group, stands with our new partners from the Emirates Foundation.  

Emirates Foundation CEO Claire Woodcraft, standing to the left in this photo, hosted Mary and HOPE at a Business Breakfast around our new partnership in Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

 

Silver Rights Empowerment Quote of the Day

"Teaching entrepreneurship is the way we set poor people free in the 21st century. Freedom in the 21st century is self-determination, and you cannot be self-determined without a job and a way to take care of your family.  And the way you create jobs in places like war-torn Afghanistan is entrepreneurship."

John Hope Bryant

 

 

John Hope Bryant and Operation HOPE at SEDCO Holdings, Saudi Arabia: Sparking the Entrepreneurship Generation

 

Operation HOPE, Saudi Arabia Partner SEDCO Holdings Up For Corporate Social Responsibility Award: Cast Your Vote

Last year, Operation HOPE worked with our lead partner in Saudi Arabia, SEDCO Holdings, in launching its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Riyali, in September 2012. Since then, the program has made a huge impact both in the Kingdom and outside. We and they are proud to share that a short film which features Riyali and its achievements has been nominated for Boston College Award for Corporate Citizenship.

Riyali is the first program in the Kingdom and the region to be nominated for this prestigious award.  Within 5 minutes or less you can both watch their inspiring video and vote.  Of course, you can also invest a little more time and watch some of the other inspiring Social Corporate Citizenship Programs nominated with SEDCO.

Click here to vote

Boston College has listed all the nominations here, and amongst the list you will find our proud partner, SEDCO Holding. You can watch the video by clicking on the link and click cast your vote on the right hand side of the page. All it takes is a click (smile).

 

John Hope Bryant is a thought leader, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Bryant Group Companies, Inc. Magazine/CEO READ bestselling business author of LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass), the only African-American bestselling business author in America, and is chairman of the Subcommittee for the Under-Served and Community Empowerment for the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, for President Barack Obama.  Mr. Bryant is the co-founder of the Gallup-HOPE Index, the only national research poll on youth financial dignity and youth economic energy in the U.S. He is also a co-founder of Global Dignity with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland. Global Dignity is affiliated with the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum.  Mr. Bryant is a thought leader represented by the Bright Sight Group for public speaking. Mr. Bryant serves on the board of directors of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: ACRE), a specialty finance company that is managed by an affiliate of Ares Management LLC, a global alternative asset manager with approximately $59 billion in committed capital under management as of December 31, 2012.  

The HUFFINGTON POST: Solving Poverty. WANTED: A New Revolution of 100 Million Youth in the Middle East

  John Hope Bryant

Bestselling business leadership author and philanthropic entrepreneur

The Middle East then and now. The choice is simply one of lighting candles, or cursing the darkness, but it is a choice that the leaders there must make. We cannot do it for them.

On September 12th, 2012, I had just returned from the Middle East region on the day prior to the devastating Libyan terrorist act of September 11th, 2012. I was visiting Saudi Arabia, and experiencing a very positive engagement with business and political leaders in the region, as we launched an aspect of our empowerment work there. I had been invited to speak before the Young President's Organization (YPO), even the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce. I met with the Minister of Labor for Saudi Arabia, who was but one of the leaders in the audience during my Chamber speech, fully engaged around a new vision and plan for the region's youth. It was obvious to me, these leaders had made a clear choice to "light a candle" towards the future.

Libya on the other hand, and thereafter other trouble spots throughout the Middle East region, unfortunately chose to turn backwards, simply cursing the darkness. At the end of the day, I choose to stay focused on that which I saw with my own eyes and experienced personally; substantive, new era leaders who have decided to light candles and build a society for all. Candles towards a brighter future. The respectful opening up of society. A view towards helping the average person to achieve their own level of aspirational success. Not a western version of aspirational success, but one of their own making. One that respected, and in fact embedded their deep and rich cultural beliefs.

I traveled to Saudi Arabia with a simple message -- in the MENA Region (Middle East and North Africa), according to the World Bank you have a population that will be 60% under the age of 25 by 2020, and in Saudi Arabia this is already the case.

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John Hope Bryant Speaking on Global Leadership, and the Middle East Opportunity, at SEDCO Holdings in Saudi Arabia

 

Operation HOPE's Silver Rights Empowerment 'Software' Making A Difference in Saudi Arabia

 

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This week our strategic partners in Saudi Arabia, SEDCO Holdings, introduced Riyali, our localized version of Banking on Our Future, College Edition, into course presentations at King Abdul Aziz University.

The Riyali Progrm was extremely well reeived by the students and faculty alike, and the SEDCO Holdings team, and SEDCO Ambassadors (their volunteer corps) deserve credit for making this vision of 'silver rights' empowerment real to and for the people of Saudi Arabia.

More to come. Much more...

 

 

John Hope Bryant is a thought leader, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Bryant Group Companies, Inc. Magazine/CEO READ bestselling business author of LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass), the only African-American bestselling business author in America, and is chairman of the Subcommittee for the Under-Served and Community Empowerment for the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, for President Barack Obama.  Mr. Bryant is the co-founder of the Gallup-HOPE Index, the only national research poll on youth financial dignity and youth economic energy in the U.S. He is also a co-founder of Global Dignity with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland. Global Dignity is affiliated with the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum.  Mr. Bryant is a though leader represented by the Bright Sight Group for public speaking. Mr. Bryant serves on the board of directors of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation, an NYSE Euronext publicly traded company, and a division of $54 billion Ares Capital.

From the Saudi Gazette: Financial literacy key to economic development

JEDDAH — Following the global financial crisis, financial literacy is playing a critical role in economic recovery and development, industry experts said in unison at the recently held “Hope Global Financial Dignity Summit” in Atlanta, Georgia, attended by delegates from more than 50 countries.

SEDCO Capital CEO Hasan Al Jabri, one of the key speakers at the event, said “following the global financial crisis, the role of private sector organizations as innovators of corporate social responsibility programs has become increasingly important. This is certainly the case at SEDCO where we recently launched our strategically aligned CSR program “Riyali” focusing on financial literacy and that we developed in consultation with Operation HOPE, a global social empowerment nonprofit organization and the organizer of the Global Financial Dignity Summit.”

SEDCO’s Riyali program addresses the need to educate the Saudi population on financial literacy and empower them with personal finance skills required to achieve a desirable standard of living. The first phase, targeting college students, was launched in September this year. He said the role of private sector organizations as innovators of corporate social responsibility programs has become increasingly important. This is certainly the case at SEDCO where we recently launched our strategically aligned CSR program “Riyali” focusing on financial literacy and that we developed in consultation with Operation HOPE, a global social empowerment nonprofit organization and the organizer of the Global Financial Dignity Summit.”

SEDCO Holding VP of Corporate Communications and Marketing Amr Banaja, who headed one of the working groups, spoke on the subject of Leadership: The Future Role of Philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 

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The Huffington Post: The 5th Big Bang of Global Economic Growth. It's You and Me

 

John Hope Bryant

Bestselling business leadership author and philanthropic entrepreneur

 

 

 

While the world is still adjusting to and trying to recover from the worst global economic crisis to occur since the Great Depression, I am focused on what comes next. You see, in the midst of this crisis I also see an opportunity. An opportunity, finally, to make free enterprise and responsible capitalism relevant to the poor and the underserved, and to work for the poor and the underserved. This time around, in order to grow world economies it will require the positive inclusion of you and me. But first, a quick history review.

There has been four major economic big bangs in global economic growth historically, both here in the United States and around the world. They are:

1. The agricultural age.
2. The industrial age.
3. The technology age.
4. The information age.

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What Muslims Really Believe About the Tragedy of Libya

 

Simply put, everyone should stop and watch this.  It even taught me a few things I did not know.

Watch it. Think about it. Share it with friends.