Strategic partnership · Energy workforce
The Energy Talent Index
Where energy talent is moving, what’s scarce, and how leaders build teams through the transition. CHRO-level research and executive coaching from Advise2Rise, powered by Savant’s live signal intelligence and predictive talent mapping.
Founding partner conversations are open now. We’re starting with consulting calls while we shape the offer with the market.
The problem
The workforce is retiring faster than it’s being replaced, and demand is about to spike
The competition
Energy isn’t just short on people. It’s about to compete with AI for the same ones.
Power and electrical engineers, data-centre builders, commissioning leads, grid and controls specialists, skilled trades. The AI build-out runs on electricity, so the two fastest-moving industries in the economy are now hiring from one finite pool.
30-day growth in market signals (funding, contracts, acquisitions, executive moves)
30-day growth in market signals over the same window
Savant signal snapshot, 30-day window to Oct 29, 2026, across 113 industries tracked. AI/ML still leads on volume; energy and AI have been the top two industries in this signal all year. One snapshot is a data point, not a trend. We track it monthly and publish the call only when the trend holds.
Why live data
You can’t map a talent war with last year’s report
Labour market reports are essential, and they arrive months after the market has moved. In a contested market, a talent map is out of date the week a competitor raises a round, wins a contract or swaps a leadership team. Live signals show you who’s about to hire your people before the job posting exists.
Lagging indicators
Annual outlooks, job postings and quarterly surveys tell you what already happened. By the time a shortage shows up there, your competitors have already started hiring.
Leading signals
Funding rounds, contract awards, acquisitions, permits and executive moves come 6–18 months before the hiring. That’s the window to build a pipeline instead of reacting to a req.
Live competitor talent maps
Who is expanding, where they’re hiring, which of your roles they need, and how fast. Refreshed continuously, so workforce plans and offers keep pace with the market.
Speed
Shortlists of qualified candidates before the role opens, cutting time-to-fill on contested roles.
Quality
Precise mapping of who holds the transferable skills, including people converting across energy sources and from adjacent industries.
Cost
Fewer empty seats on critical projects, fewer delays and no last-minute agency premiums. The tradeoffs between speed, quality and cost are made explicit.
The gap
Leaders have plenty of labour data. What they lack is the playbook behind it
Dashboards show the shortage. Nobody is capturing how peers are actually solving it, or giving leaders a live view of who they’re competing with for talent. The Energy Talent Index brings both together.
What it delivers
Five outputs, one platform , two complementary engines
Research, coaching and the people playbook
Interview-led research with senior people leaders, executive coaching and governance expertise from a former unicorn Chief People Officer. This is how leaders actually build teams through the transition.
Live signal intelligence and talent mapping
Market signals tracked across 113 industries, turned into talent market briefs, competitor talent maps and demand forecasts, so the research is anchored in where the market is heading, not where it was.
Quarterly Talent Pulse
Hiring demand, skills gaps and pay pressure across the sector, with live signals showing who is about to hire, and where.
Savant data · joint analysis
30 Energy CHROs
Interview-based research on how people leaders handle the transition, built on Susy’s “30 CPOs in 30 Days” format.
Advise2Rise
Transition Skills Map
Which roles convert across energy sources and from adjacent industries, how long reskilling takes, and where that talent sits today.
Joint
Leadership Cohort
A coaching circle for energy executives leading large-scale change, with live market context in every session.
Advise2Rise · Savant briefings
Annual Forum
Employers, colleges, unions and government in one room, working from the same data.
Joint
Year one
A launch built around four moments
Now
Consulting calls
Working sessions with energy leaders to test the offer, the pricing and the questions the Index must answer.
Q1 2027
Launch
First Talent Pulse, and founding partners announced.
Q2–Q3 2027
Research & cohort
30 Energy CHROs interviews and report. Leadership cohort begins and the Skills Map is released.
Q4 2027
Forum
Annual forum and year-in-review report.
Partner with us
Three ways to partner
We’re setting partnership terms with our first partners. Book a call and we’ll scope what fits your organization.
Founding Partner
Annual · scoped on a call
- Title billing across all outputs
- Seat on the advisory panel
- Two seats in the leadership cohort
- Live competitor talent map for your critical roles
Research Partner
Annual · scoped on a call
- Named on the Pulse and CHRO report
- Early access to findings
- Private briefing for your leadership team
Forum Partner
Per event · scoped on a call
- Branding at the annual forum
- Speaking or panel slot
- Delegate passes
Start here
Every partnership starts with a consulting call
Your exposure
Which of your critical roles are most contested, and who you’re really competing with for them, across energy and AI.
Your playbook
How peers are building teams through the transition, and where your workforce plan has gaps in speed, quality or cost.
Your fit
Whether a founding, research or forum partnership makes sense, or a focused engagement on one problem first.
The partners
CHRO-level judgment, signal-level foresight
Susy Martins
Founder & CEO, Advise2Rise
Executive coach and strategic advisor who helps founders and senior executives scale and transform their companies. Former Chief People Officer at two Canadian unicorns, Clearco and ApplyBoard, where she scaled the global team from 600 to 1,400 people across 20+ countries in a single year. Before that, she spent more than a decade in operations and HR leadership at Manulife, including VP of Global HR Operations serving 38,000+ employees, and VP of Claims Operations and Transformation at Allianz Partners. She began her career in GE’s Financial Management Program and holds a Six Sigma Green Belt.
Advise2Rise has delivered strategic HR projects for 20+ organizations across the US, Canada and the UAE. Susy is the creator of “30 CPOs in 30 Days” and serves as faculty for the Council of Canadian Innovators and HackingHR. Her coaching clients include employees at Google, Anthropic, Whatnot, RBC, RBCx, Sun Life, Kits.com, Meridian, Engie and a range of PE and VC firms.
Jessica Smith
Founder, Savant · Talent & signal intelligence
Systems-based talent strategy and operations leader with 12+ years in technical recruitment, founder-operator and former Chief Growth Officer of a B2B agentic AI signal and market intelligence platform. A player-coach who builds predictive talent maps from live market signals across 113 industries, tracking funding, contracts and executive moves to forecast demand before the req opens.
At LiveSwitch she scaled the team from 45 to 80+, cut time-to-fill for technical roles from 45 to 30 days and kept 95% of new hires past six months. She is speaking at the Future Wealth Conference in Miami, December 4–6, 2026, on the AI-and-energy talent market.
Systems-based talent strategy and operations leader with 12+ years in technical recruitment, founder-operator and former CGO. I apply Lean principles across departments, removing waste from hiring and making the tradeoffs between speed, quality and cost explicit.
Founding partner conversations are open
Help shape the energy workforce
The organizations that map the talent market early will staff the transition. The ones that wait will be bidding against AI for the same people.
Sources: Electricity Human Resources Canada, Electricity in Demand: Labour Market Insights 2023–2028; Natural Resources Canada, Sustainable Jobs nuclear energy industry profile; Government of Ontario, Darlington small modular reactor announcement (May 2025); Independent Electricity System Operator, demand forecast (Oct 2024). Signal data: Savant, 30-day snapshot to Oct 29, 2026.