Scott McInnesFounder and Director, Inspiring Change · 20+ Years Helping Leaders Build Stronger Cultures, More Human Communication and Embed Lasting Change | Founder | Keynote Speaker | Podcast Host

The Readiness Gap

30 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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The readiness gap is the distance between where organizations want to be and where employees actually are. It emerges from misaligned expectations between leadership and staff, combined with insufficient infrastructure to bridge the difference, creating risks that slow progress.

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The readiness gap is really this idea that where technology should enable us to be and where leadership is expecting us to be and where kind of our future is going so quickly, that's not what employees are experiencing, right? There's this tension between like where we should be, could be, want to be, and where we are right now. And there's all these risks that are impacting our ability to get there. And those risks and that kind of distance between where we want to be and where we are going in the future and where we currently are, and the infrastructure that we have to enable us to get there is, is that readiness gap that we're talking about.