About The Brand
Servantude (a term coined by Bill Buchanan, President/CEO of BARC Electric Cooperative) is the strong desire to serve others and support their dreams and ambitions in hopes to see them achieve their goals, all while growing alongside them. The goal of this blog is to serve you, a leader, by redefining what it means to lead by serving.
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SERVE: By serving others from the start, we allow the team around us to understand that it isn't about us, it's about them. When an individual makes the decision to place the wellbeing of the team above their own, leadership is often placed upon them. Who better to lead than the one who looks out for everyone?
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LEAD: By learning to serve well, we are looked to for leadership as the team understands that we have placed their wellbeing above our own. They trust us to make big decisions knowing that we have valued them in the small decisions.
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GROW: We grow into leadership by growing in our ability to serve, but growth and service don't stop when we start leading. Growth is a byproduct of good leadership through service.
About Us
Tanner Buchanan
Founder
Personality Type: Assertive Campaigner (ENFP-A)
I am currently 22 years old and living in Cedar Rapids, IA. I grew up in Macomb, IL, where I played soccer and first began developing my leadership skills. I had the opportunity to lead our high school soccer team as well as my club soccer team out of Quincy, IL. After high school, I attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA, to play soccer and major in Business Administration. At the same time, my parents moved to Meadville, PA, for a new job opportunity.
When COVID hit in 2019, school activities were cancelled, and I moved to Pennsylvania with my parents where I started working at The Home Depot. After 10 months at THD, I was promoted to a supervisor position and three short months after that, a manager on duty position. I held that role for 7 months and decided to return to Coe in 2021, pursuing a degree in Organizational Psychology.
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People who know me have described me as a genuinely kind individual who is socially aware with where people are concerned. Often putting the needs of others before his own, and a leader who makes intentional effort to include and encourage those around him.
OUR VISION.
We aren't stopping here...
Servantude is set out to make a difference in the world through leadership. We've seen what putting others first can do, and we want every workplace to benefit from it; because it's crazy what a group of average people can accomplish when they have in mind something greater than themselves.