Meet Dr. John H. Morgan | Founder and President of People Prosper International, A Nonprofit Educational Organization

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dr. John H. Morgan and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dr. John H., can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
This is John Morgan, Founder and President of People Prosper International. We are a nonprofit with the Mission of Solving Poverty, Empowering People and Changing the World. Our Vision is to Lead 1 Million People Out of Poverty by 2030.

My thought process for starting PPI in 2016 was deciding what was the greatest need out there that my best abilities could serve to make a difference?

The greatest need of poverty came from my lifetime of traveling around the world and seeing poverty in India, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. The problem of poverty has bothered me since I was a kid and my adult travels and work kept intensifying my sense of wanting to help people escape poverty and flourish.

My greatest strengths are understanding the economic, historic, spiritual and practical aspects of poverty and the ability to teach the causes of and solutions to poverty. Giving thought leadership on this issue is the best work I have to offer.

So, I started PPI as my sense of my personal life mission.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Our stock in trade is empowering the poor to solve their poverty. That is a radical approach in the Charity Culture that spends 95% of its efforts of treating poverty with giving the poor free stuff. There is a place for good charity but it also takes empowerment to actually solve poverty.

We empower people by teaching the poor an economic worldview they do not have. We teach them the three essential principles of creating, owning and growing prosperity. Shout Out promotes local entrepreneurs and creatives. We develop entrepreneurs and creatives in high poverty areas around the world.

One Example is Afrika Transition Hub, co-founded by Jeffrey Ferezy and Excellence Moses Gichuho. They started it last year in Kenya to train Kenyan young adults to be more competitive job seekers, employees and entrepreneurs. They envision training 1 million young Africans to be successful in careers and entrepreneurship by 2030. Their primary venue for training is the universities of Kenya and Africa. I co-presented with them a month ago at 3:00 a.m. in the morning by Zoom from Dallas to Nairobi to a group of graduates from twelve universities and to representatives of their academic deans. These guys are teaching our training content to create a great business that is changing lives.

We are working in Africa, the Asia Pacific, the Caribbean and in Latin America. We have worked in India and Native American Tribes and we have plans for programs there again.

Thousands of lives have been changed and are being changed as people are creating new income, owning property legally and profitably for the first time in their family histories, and growing profitable businesses and organizations.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
We would go to Fort Worth and take in some of the Stockyards and downtown scene. We might eat at Legacy Hall.
We would go to a Rangers baseball game.
We would eat at some of the best BBQ joints like Hutchins BBQ in McKinney or Hard Eight in Plano.
We would do a cigar session or two at Cigars International in Plano or Fort Worth.
We would bass fish Lake Lewisville, Grapevine and Ray Hubbard.
We would probably get some gear at Bass Pro and Cabelas.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
My shoutout first goes to all the great economics thinkers from John Locke whose Two Treatises of Government were some of the most influential documents on the thinking of America’s Founding Fathers and Founding Documents to Rev. Dr. Robert Sirico, the Founder of the Acton Institute which is a leading think tank on the issues of economics and human flourishing.

My second shoutout goes to Elliott Jaques the author of Requisite Organization and the founder of the Requisite Management System who taught me that people of all cultures and socio-economic situations have the same distributions of mental complexity. This means that among the poor of the world there are just as many smart and capable people who can rise up and solve their poverty as anywhere when they become empowered with the knowledge and skills for it.

My third shoutout goes to all the great leaders who challenge leaders like me to take risks to achieve great things; from my father to great leadership writers like Zig Zigler and John Maxwell.

My fourth shoutout goes to Ronna Jordan and the Okello Family in Kenya, Africa. They have proven our concept with an Empowerment Movement in Kenya that is changing thousands of people’s lives and is destined to change the continent of Africa with human prosperity and blessing.

My fifth shoutout goes to my wife of 37 years, Greg Lanee Morgan, for her support of me as a visionary leader and her role as the anchor of our family.

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