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The Human ROI
The Human ROI examines the return organizations and individuals gain when talent strategy, culture, and value creation are intentionally aligned.
Hosted by executive talent strategist and leadership advisor Elissa Mahendra, the podcast explores how career development, leadership decisions, workplace culture, and emerging forces like AI are reshaping human performance and, ultimately, enterprise value.
Through thoughtful conversations with senior leaders, practitioners, and change-makers, The Human ROI looks beyond tools and trends to focus on what actually drives sustainable growth. Not strategy in isolation, but the disciplined investment in people, culture, and capability that turns transformation into results.
This podcast is for professionals building resilient careers, leaders responsible for teams and transformation, and organizations navigating growth, change, and the future of work who want performance that lasts.
Humans aren’t separate from ROI.
They’re how ROI is created.
The Human ROI
Latest Episodes
Turn Your Expertise Into Opportunity
In this episode of The Human ROI, I sit down with Melanie Borden, Founder of Borden Group and creator of the Human to Brand Movement, to unpack one of the biggest missed opportunities in today’s career landscape: visibility.Melani...
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Unleashing Your Hidden Potential in Corporate America
In this episode of The Human ROI, Elissa Mahendra sits down with Jessica D. Winder, Chief People Officer, career coach, and author, to explore a critical gap in today’s workplace: the hidden potential sitting inside organizations...
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The Bottleneck of Leadership Capacity
What if the real bottleneck in your organization isn’t strategy, capital, or technology, but leadership capacity?In this episode of The Human ROI Podcast, Elissa Mahendra sits down with Sonia Vora, Founder of Future Focused Tale...
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Unlocking Human ROI: Ending the Silent Epidemic of Workplace Suffering
In this debut episode of The Human ROI, Elissa Mahendra introduces the core thesis behind her body of work shaped over 20+ years in HR, talent strategy, and organizational transformation.From sitting in executive rooms where cos...
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