Build the board-ready business case for L&D investment. Start with per-employee credential ROI, layer in workforce program benchmarks, then model training payback period across productivity, attrition, and promotion levers.
The Credential ROI Suite models employer investment in workforce credentials from the organization's perspective — cost per seat, productivity timeline, attrition payback period, and NPV over a 3/5-year horizon. Run this for the representative training program you're evaluating. Export the Policy Mandate to carry inputs forward.
Open Credential ROI Suite →State workforce boards fund employer training programs — often covering 50–75% of eligible costs. The Workforce Board ROI Generator produces a formatted ROI report that benchmarks your internal numbers against workforce board program cost-per-trainee standards and helps build the grant application narrative. Even if you're not applying for grants, the benchmark validates your internal assumptions.
Open Workforce Board ROI Report Generator →This is the board-ready output step. Enter your program cost and the three return levers — productivity, attrition reduction, and promotion pipeline improvement — to get payback month, 1/3/5-year ROI, and a cost-per-retained-employee metric. The tool uses SHRM benchmark ranges to flag whether your assumptions are conservative or aggressive relative to industry data.
Open Employer Training Payback Calculator →