Future Skills
Future skills – basic literacy, numeracy and socio-emotional skills – are important across all economic sectors and occupations. Figuring out who and how to address skills gaps is key to building an inclusive workforce with upward mobility.
Research
Level Up: Shaping the Future of Learning and Development in Canada
Automation, digital tools, and new work models continue to reshape jobs across every sector, and employees need access to high quality learning opportunities to keep pace.
April 30, 2026
32 minutes
Podcast
Season 6 | Episode 1
A Future Built on Skills
In this episode of the Future Skills Podcast, we tee up the new season by diving into Canada’s hinge moment for talent, productivity, and resilience...
Featuring: Jeremy Strachan, The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Noel Baldwin, J.P. Giroux, Wendy Cukier
Research
Fuelling Our Future: Talent and Technology in Canada’s Mining and Oil & Gas Industries
Our research will provide essential insights to help industries, post‐secondary institutions, and policy-makers strengthen workforce resilience, close skills gaps, and position Canada’s mining and oil & gas sectors for long-term success in the face of uncertainty.
In the Media
The missing work of co-ordination in Canada’s skills ecosystem
Canada’s workforce shortages won’t be solved by training alone. Better co-ordination, stronger intermediaries and long-term thinking are needed.
Video
How Gen Z is Saying No to Corporate Culture
Work hard. Get a promotion. Work harder. Get another promotion. And climb that corporate ladder. That's the script a lot of us grew up with. But according to a 2025 study from Deloitte, that's not what some younger workers are interested in doing. The study found only 6 per cent of Gen Z workers want to move into a leadership position. Instead, they want things like more work/life balance. Flexibility. Mental health. We talk to Tricia Williams, the director of Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Mobilization at TMU's Future Skills Centre, about how young professionals are redefining the way they work.
In the Media
Taking a closer look at the future workforce needed in Canada as nation-building projects ramp up
Amid a focus on large-scale, nation-building projects, the workforce needed to pull this strategy off is the topic of discussion at the ECO Impact Conference in Calgary tomorrow. For more, we spoke with Noel Baldwin, the Executive Director at the Future Skills Centre.
Event
FSC at Power & Purpose Summit 2026
We’re excited to share that Dayana Tellez, Senior Research & Evaluation Associate at the Future Skills Centre, will be speaking at the Power & Purpose Summit in Toronto.
Initiatives
Interim Update from the Resilient Workforce Working Table
In July 2025, the Future Skills Centre (FSC) formed the Resilient Workforce Working Table to identify creative and practical approaches to strengthen the resilience of the Canadian workforce for the short and long-term.
In the Media
Upskilling Canada’s workers and ensuring a resilient workforce: Q&A with Noel Baldwin at the Future Skills Centre
In a Q&A interview, Baldwin talked with Research Money’s managing editor Mark Lowey about: how Canadian workers can keep upskilling in the face of automation and rapid technological change; how young people can gain the right skills in finding employment; the value of formal and information education and work-integrated learning; how government can help workers who need transition in their careers; Canada’s labour market strengths; and the aim of FSC’s recently launched Resilient Workforce Working Table.