John Hope Bryant

HOPE Snippet: U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability Delivers Results for FEMA and Nation

As Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Underserved and Community Empowerment for the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, for President Barack Obama, I was proud to present our policy recommendations to the President earlier this year.

In this regard I was also thrilled to learn that in April, 2013, one of my Subcommittee's key recommendations -- the inclusion of FEMA as a new and important public policy addition in and for the nation's U.S. Financial Literacy & Education Commission (FLEC) -- was formally adopted by the Obama Administration. U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew was on hand at the FLEC meeting in April, 2013, when and where FEMA's involvement was formalized, codified and publicly announced.

FEMA's involvement in the area of financial literacy, financial education, financial capability and financial empowerment is key during this era of super-storms that seem to be impacting our country at every level. After a natural disaster, individuals, families and communities often are faced with the daunting task of rebuilding their financial lives too.

Global Dignity Leaders Announce Global Dignity Day for October 16, 2013

Global Dignity Country Chairs meet in Norway to discuss plans for making sixth anniversary the biggest event year to date

 

Oslo, Norway – April 25, 2013 – Global Dignity co-founders and Young Global Leaders Alumni HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Operation HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant, and Professor Pekka Himanen of the University of Art and Design Helsinki and Oxford University announced today that the Sixth Annual Global Dignity Day will be held on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. 

More than 350,000 students, in more than 70 countries, will be taught the key principles of Global Dignityduring the event.  Held annually on the third Wednesday in October, Global Dignity Day is celebrated worldwide with volunteers leading “A Course in Dignity” in classrooms. 

The announcement comes during the Global Dignity Seminar held in Norway’s capital, where His Royal Highness The Crown Prince hosted a Global Dignity Country Chair meeting at Skaugum. The two-day conference included planning on how to improve and expand the reach and focus for the event.

Read the complete Global Dignity article here.

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Erik Charas

Founder and Managing Director
Charas, Mozambique
WORKING GROUP SESSION LEADER

Erik Charas is a leader for our times in Mozambique, and Africa as a whole.  A dear friend and fellow YGL, and one who helps to lead Global Dignity in his part of the world, we are deeply appreciative of having Erik with us.

Engineer, Mozambican entrepreneur and social activist. Over 10 years’ experience in the private and public sectors in southern Africa. Owner and President, Jornal@Verdade, Mozambique’s largest circulation newspaper with +600,000 readers. Lecturer, Mozambique’s public university. Chair, several boards of companies and non-profit organizations in Mozambique and abroad. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum. Named: one of MSN Africa Heroes; one of Africa’s New Leaders of the Next Generation, Banker magazine. Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow

Erik Charas | HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit.

Find complete information on the global summit here.

 

 

GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY IS NOW CONFIRMED FOR 50 COUNTRIES!

 

October 17th, 2012, is GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY around the world, and I am proud to report that we now have the most countries ever to sign up to conduct a GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY, at 50 countries total to date!

This is so amazing, and it is because of the YGL (Young Global Leader), Global Shapers and other communities of leaders around the world -- leading through service -- that this is possible!

To become a part of this global movement on October 17th, 2012 in your town, city, community, state or country.....go here.

Okay, let's go....

 

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 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.

Introducing the Global Shapers, Atlanta Hub

HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and John Hope Bryant to Visit Harlem High School, Promote Global Dignity Day

- Movement empowers students through respect for self and others

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 14: (L-R) CEO BBDO NY John Osborn, CEO of Operation HOPE John Hope Bryant, Principal Tyee Chin and HRH Crown Prince Haakon Of Norway attend Wadleigh High School for Performing Arts In Harlem on September 14, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for Global Dignity Day)  Photo Credit - Getty Images for Global Dignity

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wadleigh Secondary School in Harlem, New York, will be the center of a visit from the HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, onSeptember 14th. Continuing promotion of Global Dignity Day, they will introduce key components of the five dignity principles.  

The dignitaries will address 300 students and lead a classroom lesson promoting personal and financial dignity. This event marks the beginning of celebrations leading up to the fifth annual Global Dignity Day, which will be recognized on October 17th, in more than 50 countries. Also in attendance will be John Osborne, CEO of BBDO New York, who serves as an Advisor and Organizational Partner for Global Dignity, for which BBDO (www.bbdo.com) provides pro bono creative services.

Global Dignity focuses on leading a dignified life as an opportunity to fulfill one's potential, which is based on having a human level of health care education income and security.  The movement will get an added boost on November 14th at the HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit in Atlanta, Georgia when leaders for Global Dignity speak to the importance of leading a dignified life.

About Global Dignity

Global Dignity is an independent, non-profit, non-political organization focused on empowering people with dignity. Established in 2006 by Young Global Leaders HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant and Professor Pekka Himanen, the initiative inspires respect, self-esteem and tolerance of diversity and promotes the idea that every human being has the universal right to lead a dignified life. Global Dignity has developed a course on dignity, including five dignity principles, which is taught in schools around the world on Global Dignity Day. For more information, visit www.globaldignity.org.

About HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit

Operation HOPE, a nonprofit focused on financial literacy empowerment, will host the Global Financial Dignity Summit,November 14 – 15, to discuss the theme of community, character and responsible capitalism. More than 1,000 delegates from 50 countries are expected to convene at the new HOPE Financial Dignity Center at Ebenezer, at the King Center, and the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about the Summit, visithttp://20years.operationhope.org/event/summ

Founding Group of 20 Global Shapers, Atlanta Meet at City Hall to Frame Agenda

As the founding currator for the Atlanta Hub, I was proud and honored to join the first 20 members of the Global Shapers, Atlanta Hub tonight, for the first in a series of Action Meetings they will hold this year.  

The Global Shapers are part of the World Economic Forum and the Forum of Young Global Leaders, and were inspired and created by Forum founder Professor Klaus Schwab.  Professor Schwab asked me to consider setting up the Atlanta Hub, as as founding member of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, I assumed and presumed that I owed him at least that.

This group is now 20 plus strong of some of Atlanta's top up and coming talent with an international agenda.  Soon they will be 30 strong, and one GS just returned from an organizing meeting for all Global Shaper Hubs around the world, in Geneva, Switzerland. This group is already on the move, and their business plan for local impact here in Atlanta is indeed impressive.  One of the many initiatives they have decided to engage themselves in and around is the upcoming HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit, 2012, to be held November 14th and 15th, here in Atlanta.

HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway Explains How to Start a Dignity Day

Our friend and Global Dignity co-founder HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway narratives this inspiration video on how YOU can launch a Dignity Day session in your city, your community, your school!  

To get involved with Global Dignity Day 2012, on October 17th, 2012, go to the Global Dignity website or let project leader Shannon Campbell know of your interest.

Okay, let's go...

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 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.

John Hope Bryant Open Letter to Leaders, August, 2012

 

                                                                                                                            August 16, 2012

 

An Open Letter to Leaders

For 20 years Operation HOPE has been about progress for the underserved here in America and around the world.  Now, on our 20th anniversary in 2012, we have hit the internal and external 'reset' button with respect to our strategic focus, our approach, operations, and even the results we seek for those we serve.  What comes next sets us up for the next 20 years. 

For 20 years HOPE was structured around a triangle approach to leadership, where my senior leadership team and I issued directives and the rest of the organization responded, or worse, simply waited for direction.  This approach was actually appropriate for a start-up trying to forge and frame its culture and way of operating.  In June, 2012, we completed an internal restructure around a diamond approach to leadership, where my senior team and I are at the bottom of the triangle, supporting our newly minted group of top-line division presidents, portfolio leaders, local CEOs, market presidents and others who now take 'ownership' of the HOPE brand wherever they live, work and operate.  Accordingly, it is with great pleasure that I announce the following promotions and key appointments:

Global Dignity Report Card 2012

The worldwide Global Dignity initiative was founded by three Young Global Leaders: Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, the Finnish professor of philosophy Pekka Himanen, and the American non-profit entrepreneur John Hope Bryant.   

They created Global Dignity, following a Young Global Leaders meeting in 2005. Since then, they have worked with many Young Global Leaders, Global Shapers and other partners in over 50 countries reaching more than 400,000 youth.

Global Dignity has set itself the goal of building bridges and promoting the one thing that unites us all as human beings, regardless of our ethnicity, religion, political views or other differences: human dignity. The aim is to encourage children in particular to be dignified in their dealing with others and to develop dignity themselves.

In October every year Global Dignity Day takes place (held this year on October 17, 2012). 

During Global Dignity Day, we visit with local schools and communities around the world teaching a "course in dignity" to youth and spreading our mission of helping youth and adults become their best self and helping others to achieve the same.

Today Global Dignity has Country Chairs in 29 countries and five Organizational Partners. For more information please visit www.globaldigity.org