The Human ROI

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 into measurable business returns. Leaders are being asked to move faster, close skill gaps, adopt AI, and prove the value of their people investments. But too often,...

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. Melanie has helped hundreds of executives, founders, and organizations translate their expertise into powerful digital presence and real business outcomes. Her work has been...

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 and why it so often goes unrealized. Jessica shares her perspective from both sides of the table, as an HR executive and career coach, on why high-performing profession...

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 Talent, to explore how a leader’s internal architecture shapes organizational performance at scale. Together, they unpack a powerful shift in thinking: leadership is not a so...

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 cost becomes the fastest lever to later becoming part of that equation herself, Elissa examines how revenue pressure and misalignment create downstream human consequences. ...

Strategy alone doesn’t create results. People do. In this brief introductory episode of The Human ROI , host Elissa Mahendra shares the perspective that sits at the center of the show: sustainable performance and enterprise value are created when organizations intentionally invest in careers, culture, and human capability. Drawing on her work at the intersection of talent strategy and business out...