Kenny Shafer: Hitting the right keys
To showcase our leaders across Ballad Health, we’re doing a series of profiles to help team members across our organization, and people throughout the community, get to know them a little better. We hope you’ll take the time to read about these hardworking and talented people to learn what they do with Ballad Health, what they enjoy doing outside of work and what inspires them in life! As CEO of Johnson City Medical Center, Kenny Shafer is no stranger to pressure. However, nothing could have prepared him for the anxiety of playing the piano in front of an audience for the first time. Kenny began taking piano lessons four years ago and has since participated in a few recitals. That initial performance brought him a whole new level of nervousness. “It was terrifying,” he says. “I can speak in front of 1,000 people and wing it and have no nerves, but you play piano in…