Adam Braun is the Founder of Pencils of Promise, an organization he started with $25 “on the side” of his finance career that has now built more than 200 schools around the world. He is also the Author of “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change“.

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Business Failure

Adam shares a failure with Fire Nation that was the result of a terrible judgment call. His valuable lesson learned is that every organization is a sum of its parts… and Adam has never let that fact slip his mind again.

Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment

Adam was watching a pianist at a New York Philharmonic Performance playing with so much passion that it inspired him to find a passion in his own life. It was in that moment the words “Pencils of Promise” first formed, and he hasn’t looked back since.

Current Business

Pencils for Promise is breaking ground for a new school every 90 hours, and with our help, Fire Nation, one day it will be every 90 seconds!

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Best Business Books

The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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Adam Braun Built Over 200 Schools Through Pencils of Promise