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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.
Episodes
9 episodes
The M&A Value Leak
Most deals get a champagne toast at close and not enough attention after. That's backward, and it's where so much M&A value leaks out the door in the months that follow. Elissa sits down with Klint Kendrick, author and veteran of more than ...
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Treat Culture Like a P&L Line
Every leader now agrees culture matters, yet few have documented, funded plans to do anything meaningful about it. Elissa sits down with Marshall Bergmann, SVP of Consulting Services at i4cp, to close that gap. They get into why culture belongs...
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Why Most Change Fails: Human Risk Intelligence
Organizations model the cost of every big transformation: the reorg, the ERP swap, the AI rollout, the acquisition. What they rarely model is whether their people carry the capability to execute it. That gap is what Mo Berkner-Boyt built C2IQ t...
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The Future of Skills at Scale
In this episode of The Human ROI Podcast, Elissa Mahendra is joined by Omer Glass, co-founder and CEO of GrowthSpace, to discuss the future of skill development, AI-enabled learning, and how organizations can turn capability building int...
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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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