About

I've scaled teams, survived acquisitions, and learned what actually builds a culture worth staying in.

I'm Gia Ganesh — People & Culture executive, Forbes contributor, and a practitioner who has spent her career inside some of the fastest-growing companies in SaaS and tech.

Most recently as SVP of People & Culture at Florence Healthcare — an Insight Partners-backed SaaS company transforming clinical-trial operations — I led the people function through one of the most demanding growth curves a team can navigate. We scaled from fewer than 20 employees to 275+, grew revenue from $1M to over $50M, and expanded across the U.S. and EMEA — all while building the culture infrastructure that made that growth sustainable: values, leadership development, career frameworks, performance systems, and the hiring practices that kept the right people in the room.

Before Florence, I led talent strategy and organizational development at The North Highland Company, a 1,000-person consulting firm, where I built senior leadership development programs, ran executive talent reviews, and designed the competency frameworks that shaped how the firm grew its people.

Earlier in my career I founded Tugwaa — a hiring-focused startup built inside Georgia Tech's Flashpoint incubator — after interviewing over 300 professionals in TA and HR to understand where the hiring process actually breaks down. That research sits at the core of everything I think and write about today.

I'm also the author of Career Inc: The Business of You, a guide for professionals navigating career transitions, and a contributing writer to Forbes.