30 AUGUST 2024, HOUSTON, TEXAS: Leonard Kincaid, Houston Recovery Center (HRC) CEO, was among those celebrated as Houston Top CEOs who are making an indelible mark on their organization’s financial success, work culture and contributions to the community. This prestigious event honors great leadership, vision and values.
Leonard, who founded HRC 11 years ago, has built HRC into one of the few providers of compassionate care, offering intervention and community care coordination to underserved individuals affected by substance use. HRC was founded to help solve the challenges presented by the intersections of problematic substance use, law enforcement, the overburdened legal system, homelessness, and out-of-control healthcare costs impacting Houston, the surrounding communities and indeed every individual.
Leonard created a sensible solution with demonstrable outcomes. Leonard discovered many cycled through emergency medicine with unresolved substance use issues and that no one agency managed their entire substance use recovery journey. Through a Houston Health Department partnership, he developed a Recovery Management Program serving homeless and low-income/uninsured clients. People falling through healthcare cracks got a chance to access care with recovery support that spans years.
Leonard’s community relationships jumpstarted the Sobering Center and Recovery Management Program, quickly expanding HRC’s reach to proactively engage people in the jail, courts, probation, hospitals and streets. HRC became a community hub for problematic substance use serving over 46,000 individuals with 4,900 enrolling in Recovery Management.
Change Begins at the Heart is HRC’s guiding principle. Leonard leads with his heart, knowing culture can influence behavior change that improves lives. Leonard epitomizes servant leadership by standing for the best of each person to emerge. Leonard is a voice for people that otherwise would not be heard. Leonard’s vision to do it differently and leadership to deliver difference is why he is an Admired CEO.
