Talent Strategy Wins: A Guide to Degreed LENS 2025 On Demand

Tom Schultz

Jueves, 15 de Mayo de 2025

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Couldn’t make it to Degreed LENS 2025? Maybe you missed a session (or two)? No worries. The best of this year’s insights are now available on demand.

LENS 2025 explored what’s possible in workforce development—from AI-enabled personalization and leadership transformation to verified skills and future-ready learning at scale.

Talent strategy is business strategy. And this three-part guide is designed help equip your organization with the learning needed for agility, growth, and performance.

1. Event Recap: Your briefing starts here.

See some of the biggest moments and most impactful takeaways—a snapshot of the talent strategies and innovative ideas reshaping how learning, HR, and business leaders are driving transformation.

2. Stream by theme: What do you want to solve today?

The heart of our guide, this section organizes LENS 2025 session content into three key themes—Leading Through Disruption, Making Skills Work, and Reimagining Talent Strategy with AI.

Log in to the LENS 2025 on-demand experience, and get started right away with the videos that matter most to you and your organization.

Leading Through Disruption

These sessions challenge leaders to reframe their roles, rethink organizational agility, and move boldly in an era defined by change.

More Speed, Less Cost, Bigger Impact: Learning in an AI World
Explore how artificial intelligence, tech, and collaboration are reshaping learning strategies—and how to stay ahead.
Max Wessel, Co-CEO, Degreed
Estelle Maione, Head of Global Learning, Capgemini
Nikki Helmer, Chief Product Officer, Degreed
Stephen Elrod, VP, Professional Services, Degreed

Keynote: The Future is AI-First: Are You Ready to Lead?
Walk away with a clear roadmap for embedding AI across leadership, operations, and culture.
Cassie Kozyrkov, CEO, Kozyr; Former Chief Decision Scientist, Google

The L&D Imperative: Learning as the Engine of Organizational Greatness
Become an architect of agility, growth, and innovation—to redefine learning as a business driver.
Meg Bear, Board Director, Heidrick & Struggles

The AI & Skills-Powered Shift: Redefining Leadership
Explore the future role of CLOs and CHROs, and see how leadership must evolve in an AI-powered, skills-first world.
Vidya Krishnan, Chief Learning Officer, Ericsson
Melanie Naranjo, Chief People Officer, Ethena
Matt Mason, SVP, Director of Talent Operations Office, Truist Financial
Susie Lee, CLO in Residence, Degreed

Making Skills Work

These sessions explore how verified skill signals, long-term data strategies, and behavioral insights turn skills into business results. 

7 Years Later: Revisiting the Success Metrics of a Learning Platform
Join Citi leaders as they reflect on what’s changed and what’s next.
Peter Fox, Head of Global Functions Learning, Citi
Tiffany Abinsay, Head of Digital Learning Technology, Citi
Todd Tauber, SVP, Marketing, Degreed

Making Skills Real: Driving Personalized Growth Through Verified Skill Signals
Find out how to activate skills-based learning at scale.
Jim Hemgen, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Kian Katanforoosh, CEO & Co-Founder, Workera

How the Workforce Learns in an AI-Driven World
Explore 2025, Degreed-led research on how AI is influencing employee behavior and expectations.
Lisa Tenorio, SVP, Product & Innovation, Harvard Business Publishing

Reimagining Talent Strategy with AI

These sessions show how organizations can apply AI to transform learning, HR, and business operations from the inside out.

AI Just Made Learning Unstoppable
Explore emerging capabilities—from emotionally intelligent reasoning to autonomous agents—and what they mean for building AI-native workforces.
Siya Raj Purohit, Education Go-To-Market, OpenAI
Sarah Harvey, Senior Director, Product Marketing & Communications, Degreed

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Future-Proofing HR: The Impact of AI and Emerging Technology
See how you can use market intelligence to align learning with business transformation.
Ali Bebo, Chief Human Resources Officer, Pearson
Melissa Matlins, Global Head of Workforce Solutions, Pearson

The Ripple Effect of AI on Learning
Dig into opportunities, misconceptions, and real-world impact of AI in workforce learning.
Ben Johns, Vice President, Travelers
Claire Zau, Partner and AI Lead, GSV Ventures
Erik Lossbroek, Chief Revenue Officer, Degreed

The Impact of Experimentation
Find out what Degreed product leaders have learned from two years of internal testing and piloting.
Nikki Helmer, Chief Product Officer, Degreed
Taylor Blake, SVP, New Initiatives, Degreed

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3. Go even deeper with the Degreed In Action 2025 webinar series.

See the latest talent strategy innovations from Degreed up close.

The Degreed in Action 2025 webinar series features:

• AI-powered tools and experiments. See how Degreed is testing and launching new innovations, from experimental prototypes to Maestro Studio learning paths.
• Scalable learning design. Explore how Degreed Academies and the Open Library support personalized, role-based growth at scale.
• Workflow automation and data intelligence. Learn how to streamline processes with Degreed Automations and surface powerful insights with Skills+.
• ROI-focused strategies. Discover how to measure, communicate, and optimize the business impact of learning with AI-enabled analytics.

Each installment is packed with product demos, expert insights, and actionable takeaways designed to help learning, HR, and IT leaders accelerate impact, scale personalization, and prove business value.

Press play and transform your talent strategy.

LENS 2025 made it clear: The future of learning is smarter, faster, and more connected.

Now it’s your turn to tap into the ideas, tools, and talent strategies that are already reshaping the world of work.

Get inspired. Your next innovation is just ahead.