Skills Momentum

Uncover the Talent Hidden in Your Organization

The employees in your organization are your greatest asset. Oftentimes, the pace of business makes it challenging to understand what skills your colleagues have and how to best utilize their skill sets. And when it’s time to refill or grow our teams, it can feel overwhelming, cumbersome, and high pressure to get it right.

Skills based talent strategy is a process improvement practice to clarify your talent demand through connecting the skills needed in each job to the overall business goals. This maximizes all the abilities and interests of your current employees to achieve the outcomes of your organization, as well as proactively prepares you for when an open position becomes available.

Using skills to describe, promote, and communicate jobs can help organizations retain their workforce, expand access to all qualified talent, and make smarter business decisions by building a strong foundation for future talent success with a solid competitive advantage.

We envision a future where organizations of all sizes and sectors find Talent Clarity through Skills™, making connections to opportunity visible through small steps, sustained momentum, and lasting results.

Learn

Build knowledge and momentum through practical and engaging learning experiences focused on skills-centered talent practices, utilizing real world employer scenarios.

Offerings include:

Live Virtual Workshops
On-Demand Content (Coming Soon, Fall 2026)
Live Virtual Cohorts (Coming Soon, Winter 2026)
Train-the-Trainer Cohorts (Coming Soon)
Talent Guides (Coming Soon)

Best for: Organizations and employer groups looking to learn how skills can improve hiring, talent development, and workforce planning.

Guide

Work directly with Skills Momentum Founder Natalie Wenzler to explore workforce challenges, gain strategic insight, and identify practical next steps forward.

Advisory engagements may include:

Workforce ecosystem partnerships
Skills-based talent strategy
Workforce planning
Grant and initiative advising
Employer engagement strategies

Best for: Organizations and employer groups seeking expert guidance, strategic direction, and next steps for workforce and talent challenges.

Design

Build a customized skills-centered talent strategy, framework, or roadmap for your organization.

Potential areas of focus:

Talent strategy design
Skills-connected career pathways
Skills-based talent management frameworks
Employer collaborative models
Workforce planning roadmaps

Best for: Organizations and employer collaboratives ready to co-design customized talent strategies, skills-centered solutions, and implementation roadmaps.

Meet Natalie

After more than a decade working alongside employers, workforce organizations, chambers, industry associations, and regional partners, I’ve noticed a recurring challenge: employers say they can't find the talent with the skills they need, education says it is training the skills that are in demand, and individuals say they have the skills to do the jobs.

Yet beneath those statements is a different reality. Organizations often struggle to clearly define the skills needed for success in their jobs, making it difficult to understand the talent they already have and the talent they need in the future. More so, organizations are navigating complex decisions and priorities with limited resources and visibility into the talent, capabilities, and skills within their reach.

I created Skills Momentum to help employers utilize their greatest asset, which is their talent, by making the skills more visible and connected.

Through workshops, advisory engagements, and customized strategy design, I help organizations take practical steps to connect jobs, skills, and talent more intentionally, creating momentum and supporting lasting results.