Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before in your church or in your business and now your host

Carrie Newhoff.

Well hey everybody and welcome to episode 182 of the podcast my name is

kiri Newhoff and I hope our time together today helps you lead like never

before well I have been excited about this episode for a while our guest is Cheryl Batchelder and whether you are a business

leader or a church leader I think you are going to absolutely love today's

episode. I know we have a growing number of business leaders listening

which I'm really excited about. We hear from you guys. Thank you so much for

doing what you do and I got to tell you as a former lawyer like leadership

issues are just kind of leadership issues,

whether you're the pastor of a church, whether you're leading a department in church,

whether you're in finance, law, a startup, whatever you happen to be doing, man, we all kind of struggle with the same issues and

Cheryl Batchelder had a really difficult situation on her hands about 10 years ago.

In 2007, she became the CEO of Pop Eyes Louisiana Kitchen and it was a tough

situation they had struggled for a long time they were kind of stuck they were

not nearly at the top of their industry and in the decade that she

served as a CEO, oh my goodness, were there ever changes that she brought about. The improvement of restaurant performance led franchisees to like

remodel the entire system and what they saw was they grew in market cap from

less than 300 million to over 1.3 billion. Their revenues grew to 3.1 billion a year by the end of 2015.

They had grown to over 60,000 employees in the United States, three territories, and

27 countries. It's an incredible story and Cheryl was so generous with her time

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