The ROI Podcast

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 ow...

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 ho...

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.

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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 d...

"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, Promoti...

"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 ...

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.

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Do you have a ...

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. ...

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.

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Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business dec...

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 Eve...

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 naviga...

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 p...

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...

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'r...

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 ...

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 o...

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...

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 thr...

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 ...

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...