John Hope Bryant

Images of Operation HOPE's Banking on Our Future 500K and Over the Years

 

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Reflections on BBDO NY CEO John Osborn visiting the Harlem HOPE Center

 

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Good memories never grow old.  The Operation HOPE family was honored to host my fellow YGL (Forum of Young Global Leader), friend and CEO of BBDO New York, John Osborn, for a CEO Leadership Discussion at our Operation HOPE Financial Literacy Empowerment Center in Harlem. John did an incredible job that evening, and was well received by all who attended.  Thank you John for all that you do to "bridge the gaps" that needlessly separate our society.

John Osborn and his team at BBDO NY are a walking, talking, living example of Love Leadership in action.  Thanks for all you do.

HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland and John Hope Bryant present Global Dignity at ONE YOUNG WORLD, London 2010

 

Three Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for the World Economic Forum present Global Dignity earlier this year at the ONE YOUNG WORLD conference in London, England.

 

Images from Dignity Day, Tanzania and the co-founders of Global Dignity

 

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Earlier this year I was honored to join my brothers, Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland, HRH Cown Prince Haakon of Norway, my fellow YGLs and Global Dignity co-founders, in clasrooms at the Feza School in Tanzania, for Dignity Day, Tanzania.  Also present on this incredible day was the former President of Tanzania, the Turkish Ambassador to Tanzania and many other VIPs.

One person can make a difference.  Be that one person.  Check out the work of Global Dignity here, and sign on to lead a local session in our country and city for GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY 2010.  Also, you can view additional photos from prior Dignity Day, and GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY sessions here and at Global Dignity.

 

LOVE LEADERSHIP Climbs Six Spots on Inc. Magazine-CEO READ Business Bestseller Top 25 List in July

 
Book Makes Record 10^th Appearance on the List as Popularity for Bryant’s Business Principles Continues to Ring True in Current Economic and Political Climate

August 10, 2010 02:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time 

LOS ANGELES--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass), makes the Inc. Magazine 800CEOREAD bestsellers list, climbing six spots landing at #11. Written by Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant, this month marks the record tenth time the book has made the list since its release in August 2009.

LOVE LEADERSHIP continues to attract an international audience as principles from the book have been the focus of discussions at the Roland Berger Strategy Challenge Club Meeting in Solna, Sweden, the FORTUNE/TIME/CNN Global Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, the World Economic Forum regional meeting in Tanzania, and the international OECD Forum in Paris.

 

 

A Special Salute in Honor of Ms. Jennifer Holliday

 

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 Pure, unadulterated class, substance and authenticity.  That is my first description of and for my new friend, Grammy award recipient and talented actress Jennifer Holiday.  I first met Jennifer with my Goddaughter Kirstin Fouche' when we decided at the last minute to attend the Watch Night services at Ebenezer Church, my new church here in Atlanta, on New Year's Eve.  After an appearance that left me speechless, Jennifer came and sat down next to me amongst the congregation.  I immediately moved so that my Goddaughter Kirstin could sit next to her, as Kirstin admired and still admires Jennifer greatly. Jennifer could not be more loving and gracious to Kirstin, both then and after her performance back in the offices of Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock.  I knew I liked and respected her at that moment.  I have often said, "I would prefer you respect me and learn to like me, rather than like me, and never respect me."  Well, I quickly learned to both like and respect Jennifer.

Images of youth from Morehouse College hanging with civil rights royalty on the 4th

 

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Thanks to the initiative of the leadership from Morehouse College, here in Atlanta, Georgia, I was honored to receive more than 35 Morehouse College students to be at my home for 4th of July celebrations here at Bryant Park, hosted by Operation HOPE. In particular I would like to thank Rahmelle C. Thompson, program director for the Dr. John H. Hopps Jr. Research Scholars Program at Morehouse College, who escorted the students here.

Memories and Images from 4th of July in Bryant Park, 2010

 

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The first annual Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant 4th of July Picnic in Bryant Park was a great success and an amazing time for all who attended.  A number of young people not only had a lot of family fun playing in Bryant Park, but several of them also received their very own and first ever bank account, as Operation HOPE awarded several HOPE $25 Starter Savings Accounts as gifts to the first youth who signed up for an on-site Banking on Our Future financial literacy course, which was taught on the 4th by our very own James Bailey of the Operation HOPE, Atlanta team. One of the youth recipients is pictured above.

John Hope Bryant sitting down with a living legend; Mrs. Marian Wright Edelman

Some things you just do not get enough of. Yesterday I had an opportunity to sit down once again with one of our nation's true living legends and American "sheroes," Mrs. Marian Wright Edelman.  Beyond the fact that she has founded one of the most significant organizations in our nation's vaulted history, and continues to play a pivotal role today in the overall development in the lives (and public policy) of children and their families, she also played a part in civil rights history that most are unaware.

John Hope Bryant announces new dedicated website for LOVE LEADERSHIP community, bestselling business book

 

I am proud to announce and officially introduce today www.loveleadershipbook.com, as the new official website for my now bestselling business book, LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass).  This new website brings the best of the insights, reviews, reader feedback, videos, interviews, photos, reflections and (unpublished) views of the author, of and around the growing Love Leadership approach to living and prospering in a fear-based world.  Exciting to me, the website is not static.  Because of its real-time interface with my global social networked world (Twitter, Facebook Love Leadership Fan Page, my Blog, etc), you also get real-time updates on what's going on around the world, in my world, and how Love Leadership is having a real impact, in real people's lives.