Author: Adam Braun

Adam Braun is the founder and CEO of Pencils of Promise, an award-winning nonprofit organization and author of The Promise of a Pencil. Join him tonight for a chat about his summers working at hedge funds at age 16, a career on Wall Street and how a trip to India and an encounter with a child begging on the streets changed his life path.

The Promise of a Pencil chronicles Braun’s journey through more than fifty countries to find his calling, as each chapter explains the steps that every person can take to ignite their own passion and potential. His trailblazing story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. Driven by compelling stories and shareable insights, this is a vivid and inspiring book that will give readers the tools to unlock their own extraordinary journey of self-discovery.