076: Allan Birch - Tell Stories to Build Engagement

Allan's a senior executive with a broad range of experience across a range of industries. After a highly successful corporate career, Allan started a sustainability consultancy early in 2019. His passion in life is to help people and businesses succeed. He combines his skills in leadership, strategy, communication, and business acumen with his endless energy to help others make their businesses more sustainable. That means growing and protecting economic prosperity, engaging, rewarding, and developing people, and reducing waste to lower our environmental impact.In this episode, we talk about:Allan talks about how he became a leader, organically. From starting at a sales job during his 20’s and slowly developing his leadership skills as years go byDenis asks Allan who his favorite leader is and how that leader impacted his life.The importance of storytelling and communication.Allan talks about how the essence of being a leader hasn’t changed that muchAllan shares his passion and advocacy to push sustainability and taking care of our planet.Hear how Allan believes leadership will adapt and change over the next five years.Key Takeaways:Be persuasive in the story you are tellingLeaders need to be able to make tough calls and really care for their peopleWe have to take care of our planetFor your business to survive, you have to have sustainability and adaptability Tweetable Quotes:“It’s the storytellers that have the people standing around listening to them.” – Allan Birch“I think maybe people are less thinking about a long-term career and more thinking about how to build a connection with an organization where I can go and make a difference or where I can contribute.” – Allan Birch Follow Allan on LinkedIn or visit their website http://www.siempre.co.nz/Resources:Email: [email protected]: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/