PEOple Caring for People
Kenna Stock and the Harbin Clinic
Kenna Stock, the CEO of Harbin Clinic, grew up in a close-knit family that prioritized the meaning of hard work. Between junior and senior high, Stock’s first job was working in her father’s entrepreneurial venture: a donut shop. Growing up in and around her father’s business armed Stock with the tools and perspective that have carried her through her career, as well as through the first venture of her own: motherhood. Before Stock began her professional journey leading to her tenure as CEO, her first full-time job was being a wife and mother. She and her husband married young, right out of high school. They had their first child when she was 20, followed by three more within eight years. During that time, Stock was grateful to be a stay-at-home parent. 8
“My greatest blessing was having that experience, “ Stock says, but a change was coming. “When my youngest was two, I guess I looked up from laundry and children and housekeeping and said ‘Maybe I need some adult conversation’...I started thinking about my career.” At this point, Stock would stumble across a part-time job that would set up a future in healthcare and eventually, Harbin Clinic. For those unfamiliar, Harbin also has a foundation built by family. The Harbin Clinic has been around since 1948, but its roots were in Harbin Hospital, a 12-bed medical facility established in 1908 by the Harbin brothers. The siblings, both adigeorgia.com
