Charlene Currie featured in Canadian HR Reporter on 2026 skills gaps and workforce risk
Charlene Currie, President of MOR Consulting Group™, was featured in a January 7, 2026 article published by Canadian HR Reporter, where her expert perspective informed the discussion on why organizations continue to struggle with persistent skills gaps heading into 2026.
The article, written by Stacy Thomas, examines how employers frequently misdiagnose skills gaps by treating them as hiring problems rather than as indicators of deeper business risk, organizational design issues, and execution breakdowns.
In the piece, Currie underscores the importance of assessing skills gaps through a business and delivery lens rather than relying on job descriptions or vacancy counts as standalone indicators of capability:
“Organizations need to understand what the business is trying to achieve and where delivery risk sits before assessing whether current talent is aligned. Vacancies are a lagging indicator. By the time a role has been open for months, the cost is already showing up elsewhere.”
Currie’s perspective challenges organizations to move beyond surface-level workforce metrics and focus on the skills gaps that materially increase operational, financial, or delivery risk.
Closing skills gaps requires disciplined diagnosis, alignment to business risk, and a willingness to rethink how talent is assessed, developed, and deployed. With talent representing one of the most significant investments organizations make, hiring cannot be treated as trial and error.
The full article, Employers Need ‘Change In Mindsets’ To Close Skills Gaps in 2026, is available on the Canadian HR Reporter website.
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