Long before Kelly Loeffler entered a boardroom or stepped into public service, her understanding of business was being formed on a five-generation family farm, where work did not stop because the day was long and responsibility could not simply be handed to someone else.
 

“My goals as a young person to build a career in business started on my family’s now five-generation family farm,” Loeffler says. “And I saw firsthand the grit, the determination and the reward that comes from that hard work of building a small business and the generational impact that it has.”

She watched her parents work every day. She saw what it meant when a family’s livelihood depended on what they could produce, sustain and build over time. “As small business owners know, there are no days off. There’s no paid leave.”

During high school and college, Loeffler waitressed and worked for small businesses along the main streets of rural America.