Cheryl Bachelder is the CEO of AFC Enterprises, Inc., the parent company
of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen. Cheryl has more than 30 years of
experience in brand building, operations and management at companies
including KFC, Domino's Pizza, RJR Nabisco, The Gillette Company and The
Procter & Gamble Company. Cheryl creates work environments where
people can do their best work, and after realizing strong business
results for Popeyes, she added a fifth pillar to the brand road
map—Creating a Culture of Servant Leaders—to inspire leaders to reach
their full potential.
Cheryl believes in a passionate,
purposeful approach to work where the focus is on coaching and
developing people to be leaders with competence and character. Guided by
the servant leadership thinking of Robert Greenleaf, she builds highly
collaborative teams with big ambitions for the enterprise, not
themselves. These teams work in close partnership and alignment with
franchisees to deliver exceptional marketplace results. Cheryl and her
husband, Chris, have three daughters (one adopted from Russia at age
11).