The ROI Podcast

Former CEO of Popeyes, Louisiana Kitchen discusses servant leadership and the importance of uplifting others. Highlights include building trust, a pivotal advertising decision, the impact of promotions on a leader's IQ, and empowering women through servant leadership.

Carter Cast, former Walmart.com CEO, discusses career archetypes that derail careers and traits of successful leaders. He also provides strategies for leadership development.

Have you noticed a person with all the right traits to become the next CEO or the next successful entrepreneur, yet they seem to fall short and never make it in their careers? Where did it all go wrong? What changed that stopped an upward career trajectory? Has this happened to you? On this episode, Idalene "Idie" Kesner, dean of the Kelley School of Business and the Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management, and ROI Podcast host Matt Martella talk with Carter Cast, author of "The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade." Cast is a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and he sits down with us to explore how to get back on track after a derailment in your career. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Find out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Scott Dorsey, managing partner of High Alpha, discusses the keys to successfully scaling a business: scaling yourself, scaling your team, and scaling your organization. Topics include building a strong culture, surrounding oneself with coaches and mentors, combating high turnover rates in the tech industry, identifying growth opportunities, and strategies for scaling a business.

Discover how the habits that contribute to your promotion can hold you back from future opportunities, and learn how to break those habits. Explore the pitfalls of overvaluing expertise, the impact of emotional communication, breaking habits, and the cross-gender application of 'How Women Rise'.

Habits that work in early careers can hold you back in leadership. Sally Helgason discusses habits that hinder women's career advancement. Overcoming perfectionism and fear of taking credit. The power of women in leadership and global impact of 'How Women Rise'.

On today’s episode, we wrap up our 3-part series to help you become a high-caliber leader based on the new Kelley School of Business “Exceptional New Manager’s Toolkit” through edX. We take all the principles we have learned over the past 2-weeks and put them together so we can learn how to find joy and fulfillment in our new leadership roles. Wrapping up the series are professors Tatiana Kolovou and Ray Luther. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Find out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Last week, we started a 3-part series to help you become a high-caliber leader focusing on how to step into your leadership role with care for yourself and for your team. This week, we are building upon the foundation we built last week and exploring the next installment of the Kelley School of Business “Exceptional New Manager’s Toolkit” through edX focusing on how leaders deal with the daily drama that comes with leading people. This week, we are joined by professors Tim Baldwin and Tatiana Kolovou. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Find out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Over the next 3-weeks, we are going embark on a series all about becoming a high-caliber leader based on the new Kelley School of Business “Exceptional New Manager’s Toolkit” through edX. This week we start by introducing the course and learning how to step into your leadership role with care for yourself and for your team with professors Ray Luther and Tim Baldwin. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Find out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Ever wonder how people make those "connections of a life-time"? Or how professionals find others to help them build their passion? It all starts with relationships. Whether personal or professional, building a healthy network of people starts with authentic relationships. And to begin those relationships, we must ask ourselves how we can serve them before we think about what they can do for us. On this episode, we sit down with Everbowl Franchise Owner and Entrepreneur Alex Yeater who shares how finding ways to serve others led to a business partnership with former Super Bowl Quarterback Drew Brees. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Find out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy