The ROI Podcast

"Servant leadership is the most aspirational thing you'll ever try to do. If you think it's easy to think about others over yourself, I've got news for you. You're going to mess up every couple of hours." Embracing a mindset of serving others before ourselves seems easy on paper, yet those who try often learn that embracing these principles is no easy task. When we work toward listening before speaking, meeting our team where they are at, and constantly looking for who we should serve, the results speak for themselves. Indiana University Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene "Idie" Kesner and ROI Podcast Host Matt Martella sat down with Cheryl Bachelder, BS'78, MBA'78, who is the former CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. and author of "Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others." Today she serves as a director for Chick Fil A and US Foods Holding Co. On this episode, Bachelder shares the importance of embracing a leadership style focused on uplifting those around us before we lift up ourselves. ---- 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 conversation with Carter Cast, author of "The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade," clinical professor at the Kellogg School of Management, former Walmart.com CEO and Fortune 100 executive. On this episode, Cast discusses five personality archetypes that derail careers, plus he discusses three traits of highly successful leaders. Finally, he leaves us with a strategy for our own leadership development. ---- 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

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

What does successful scaling look like? On this episode, we sit down with Scott Dorsey, BS'89, managing partner of High Alpha, to address three keys to scaling successfully: 1. Scaling yourself, 2. Scaling your team, and 3. Scaling your organization. ---- 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

"The very habits and behaviors that can serve you well early in your career can be problematic as you move into leadership." Last week, we started a conversation about how the habits that might get you promoted - could become the same habits that hinder you from future opportunities. On this episode, we continue our discussion with the co-author of "How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job." Sally Helgesen shares more details into how to break the habits holding you back from your next raise or career move, during her conversation with Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene "Idie" Kesner and ROI Podcast Host Matt Martella. ---- 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

"The very habits and behaviors that can serve you well early in your career can be problematic as you move into leadership." When looking ahead in our career, we often work hard to develop both skills related to our current or desired position and our personal behaviors that could help get us promoted into leadership roles. However, the habits that got you promoted could become roadblocks for the future. Indiana University Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene "Idie" Kesner and ROI Podcast Host Matt Martella sat down the co-author of "How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job" Sally Helgesen, who has been identified by Forbes as the "world's premier expert on women's leadership." On this episode, Helgesen shares how certain habits and behaviors could be holding you back from your next career move. ---- 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

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

Whether we see headlines of record high inflation, supply chain issues, soaring home prices, or any other unsettling news about the economy, the big question we all seem to ask ourselves is will a recession happen? And if so, when? On this episode, we are sitting down with Kelley School of Business Economists Phil Powell and Kyle Anderson who share their predictions, as well as their wisdom, on how organizational leaders can navigate through this uncertainty no matter which way the economy goes. ---- 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

All the preparation that goes into starting a company can be both exciting and draining. We work so hard to get that company started we sometimes do not answer the "what's next" question once our enterprise is up and running. On this episode, we're sitting down with the former Host of The ROI Podcast and CEO of Crimson Media Shane Simmons who pulls back the curtain of his newly established organization to offer insights on planning for the future. ---- 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

Enron. A name synonymous with fraud, greed, and what NOT to do as a leader. And in the wake of the downfall, it was Kelley School of Business Accounting Professor Daniel Beneish who predicted their company was cooking the books with his M-Score financial model. Even still to this day, Professor Beneish's model remains the most viable means of predicting corporate fraud. On this episode, we sit down with Professor Beneish who shares the inner workings of how his model works while exploring ways to make sure our organizations operate in an ethical manner. ---- 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

This week we are taking a dive into the vault to share some timely advice in the midst of the multitudes of job openings across various industries. If you were wondering when a great time to make a career change, this may be your opportunity. In Silicon Valley, for example, the average turnover is 12 months. So how do we find a career that is not simply financially rewarding, but emotionally rewarding as well? On this episode, we're sitting down with Associate Dean and Co-host Phil Powell who shares his story on finding the job of your dreams. ---- 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

What happens when we embrace comfort for too long? For many, the shake-up of the COVID-19 pandemic showed many of us we were not ready for change. Whether we lost our jobs, had to turn our living rooms into home offices while becoming teachers for our children, or any other disruption felt in the wake of this pandemic, many of us were not ready for such a jolt. As we reflect upon the past 2-years, seeking answers through a lens of wisdom and hind-sight, we were too comfortable. So, how can we grow? How do we learn to get back up once we get knocked down? On this episode, we're sitting down with the founder and CEO of the Ecsell Institute and TEDx speaker with almost 35 million views on his talk "How comfort will ruin your life" who shares how the most radical, unexpected shakeups in his career became the launching point for his success. ---- 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

The show Shark Tank captivates millions around the country as entrepreneurs face off with eager investors to fund their million-dollar idea. But is that how a meeting with an investor really look? Spoiler: no. And for the rest of us who will never see the bright lights of the shark tank studio, how do we pitch to investors? And before that pitch, how do we even start? On this episode, we're sitting down with the Managing Director of Heartland Ventures Max Brickman, BS'14, who shares the keys for successfully catching the ear of any investor. ---- 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

What happens when we are approached with a new opportunity we feel completely under-qualified for? How do we navigate our internal struggles to push our comfort and grow as a leader? What are the risks we face when saying "no" to that opportunity? On this episode, we're sitting down with the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana Darcey Palmer-Shultz who shares from her journey of feeling completely under-qualified when she was approached to fill the vacant CEO spot and how she said yes, even when she felt like someone better should be in that role. ---- 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

As many organizations continue to become more diverse in demographics, as well as thought processes, the opportunity for success could not be greater. The more trains of thought and wisdom from personal experience brought to the table, the stronger our team becomes. Yet, as we know when we sit around the table with family, the more people who have input, the higher the chance of tension and conflict. So how do we lead our teams through these difficult conversations so we can all win? On this episode, we're sitting down with Kelley School of Business Lecturer of Management and Entrepreneurship Barb Cutillo who shares her wisdom on leading diverse teams successfully. ---- 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

Did you land that promotion leading a new division in another country? Are you thinking about trying out new opportunities abroad? Or have you wondered what it would be like to pack up and go to a whole new land? On this episode, we're sitting down with the CFO, Asia Cluster at Sandoz Mike Healy, MBA'90, who shares his over 20 years of experience working abroad. We explore the highs and lows while gaining wisdom to be an effective leader on day 1 in a new country. ---- 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 conversation on how we begin to re-examine the way we view our people within our organization. By focusing more on the "human" element of human resources, we started to look at ways, we as leaders, need to approach our teams. On this second of two part series, we're taking those principles from last week and turning them into action plans as we welcome back Executive Coach Mason McDonald to wrap up this series. ---- 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