This three-part webinar series brings together leading analysts as well as HR and learning leaders to explore how AI is transforming enterprise learning. It’s reshaping roles, redefining required skills, and overhauling once-stable processes. For HR leaders, this shift is not a distant possibility—it’s already happening, fast.
Each session offers a unique perspective on what’s next and how you can lead the way, from workforce development to innovative platform use.
Josh Bersin
Founder and CEO
The Josh Bersin Company
Ali Bebo
Chief Human Resources Officer
Pearson
Fiona Leteney
Senior Analyst
Fosway Group
July 30, 2025
The AI-Powered Revolution in Learning + Talent Development
Time: 1 pm ET
Speakers: Josh Bersin, Heather Stefanski, & Nikki Helmer
Shift your workforce from content creation to performance enablement. Dive deep into Josh Bersin’s latest research to unpack the shift toward AI-first learning. According to Bersin, the future will be one where skill development is dynamic, embedded, and driven by generative AI tools. To prepare, hear how leading organizations reinvented their workforce initiatives to move faster, develop deeper skills, and deliver real business value with learning. We’ll also explore how AI that is purpose-built for learning can make workflows faster and more effective at lower costs. Find out how organizations can deliver hyper-personalized learning experiences—including simulations, coaching, and AI-powered pathway creation—to develop talent efficiently.
In this session, we’ll discuss:
- How teams are experimenting with leadership coaching, skill assessments, and simulations at scale
- A real-world story of how a leading company is evolving its workforce strategy with Degreed Maestro
- Key questions to ask as you evaluate AI’s role in your talent strategy
- The power of AI-curated learning paths and personalized content recommendations
September 10, 2025
The AI-Powered HR Team of the Future
Time: 11 am ET
Speakers: Susie Lee & Ali Bebo
HR is at a crossroads. Generative AI is rapidly transforming the workplace, reshaping roles, redefining critical skills, and disrupting traditional processes.
Join Susie Lee, Chief Learning Officer at Degreed, along with Ali Bebo, CHRO from Pearson, as they share joint research on how HR and learning leaders can build the right skills to lead in an AI-driven future. With more than 11 million jobs projected to be impacted by technology augmentation by 2028, preparation now is essential.
In this session, you’ll uncover:
• Why traditional approaches to HR transformation are no longer effective
• How generative AI is changing the skills landscape
• What actions CHROs can take now to prepare their organizations
• Key findings from Pearson’s labor market projections and Degreed’s skill intelligence research
September 25, 2025
The AI-Powered Future of Learning Technology
Time: 1 pm BST
Speakers: Fiona Leteney & Todd Tauber
Where is AI actually working for learning? Find out from Fosway’s Fiona Leteney as she shares insights from the 2025 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems and Digital Learning Realities research. Together, we’ll explore what separates flashy AI features from value-driven ones, then showcase how organizations are successfully leveraging tools like Degreed Open Library and Degreed Maestro to accelerate learning and business outcomes.
Get actionable insights on how to:
- Integrate AI into your learning tech stack
- Simplify the complexity
- Choose learning systems built for agility and scale
About our speakers
Josh Bersin
Founder and CEO, The Josh Bersin Company
Josh Bersin is an analyst, author, educator, and thought leader focusing on the global talent market and the challenges and trends impacting business workforces around the world. He studies the world of work, HR and leadership practices, and the broad talent technology market. He is often cited as one of the leading HR and workplace industry analysts in the world.
He founded Bersin & Associates in 2001 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. Over the next ten years, he expanded the company’s coverage to encompass HR, talent management, talent acquisition, and leadership and became a recognized expert in the talent market. He sold the company to Deloitte in 2012, when it became known as Bersin™ by Deloitte. He currently sits on the board of UC Berkeley Executive Education.
Heather Stefanski
Chief Learning and Development Officer, McKinsey
Heather Stefanski is the Chief Learning and Development Officer at McKinsey & Company where she is responsible for Learning & Development for 40,000+ colleagues globally in addition to overseeing McKinsey’s People Data and Analytics Teams. Throughout her 28 years at McKinsey, Heather has held a broad range of people roles including leadership roles in talent management, talent acquisition, professional development, and learning.
Heather’s current portfolio of work includes:
- Implementing culture of feedback purposeful apprenticeship to unlock rapid upskilling at scale with the team room
- Pivoting the organizational orientation toward skills including implementing rolling out a skills and impact based leadership development model and an AI based credentialing platform to effectively matching talent to client team needs
- Innovating with AI to personalize learning and enhance review processes
Heather has an MBA and an MA in Education from Stanford University, and a BS in Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University.
-1.png?width=480&height=480&name=LENS%202025_Nikki%20Helmer_Headshot%20(2)-1.png "LENS 2025_Nikki Helmer_Headshot (2)-1")
Nikki Helmer
Chief Product Officer
Nikki Helmer is Chief Product Officer at Degreed, responsible for shaping our world class enterprise learning platform to help customers to pinpoint needs, personalize development and measure change. Nikki is building Degreed’s vision to enhance skills-first learning, to leverage AI responsibly and effectively across our platform and for the product development of Degreed’s all-new AI coach, Maestro.
Prior to Degreed, Nikki served as SAP’s VP of Learning and Development globally. In this role she was responsible for the functional skill development for all 107,000 employees. Additionally, for the past 3 years Nikki steered SAP's own journey to become a skills-based organization starting by establishing a common taxonomy, building consistent skill measurement, and evolving into a fully skills-based job architecture which sets the foundation for the complete suite of skills use cases across the enterprise. SAP was recognized as a lighthouse company for their skills transformation program by the World Economic Forum in early 2024.
Nikki holds a master’s in data science from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at NC State, a BSc in Business as well as a BA in Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Susie Lee
Chief Learning Officer in Residence, Degreed
As CLO in Residence, Susie Lee partners with the CEO and GTM teams to amplify Degreed’s brand, influence change, and guide prospects and customers through complex workforce transformations.
With over 25 years of global experience spanning human capital technology, financial services, and loyalty marketing, Susie is a passionate change catalyst and trusted leader in driving transformation and innovation. As one of Degreed’s earliest clients, she has been pivotal in shaping go-to-market strategies and helping our customers and organizations tackle complex challenges with future-forward, pragmatic solutions that drive culture change at scale.
Previously, Susie held many leadership roles and served as SVP of Global Learning Technology Product Management at Bank of America, where she led the enterprise-wide launch of Degreed to 300,000+ employees and advanced transformative HR initiatives. Known for her customer-first approach, Susie excels in uncovering opportunities and crafting innovative solutions to build loyalty and drive sustainable success.
She holds a BA (Honours) from Queen’s University and postgraduate certifications from York University’s Schulich School of Business.
Ali Bebo
Chief Human Resources Officer, Pearson
Ali is a seasoned C-suite executive with over 25 years of experience building culture for transformative business performance across multiple industries.
Prior to joining Pearson, she was an executive officer and CHRO for Hologic, Inc., a global medical technology company. Prior to Hologic, she held various HR leadership roles with the speciality retail company, ANN INC.
Fiona Leteney
Senior Analyst, Fosway Group
Fiona Leteney is the Senior Analyst for Learning Systems at Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst. She has worked in the learning technology market since 2000, gaining a wealth of experience by either selling, implementing or managing learning solutions in a corporate context.
Fiona joined Fosway Group in 2016 and is the primary lead on research in the Learning Systems market. She gathers vendor, customer and market insights, helping corporate clients accelerate their decision making across all aspects of next generation learning.
Prior to joining Fosway Group, Fiona was the Global Learning Technologies Services
Manager at healthcare provider, Bupa. As a recognized industry figure, she has been a magazine columnist and currently judges the annual Learning Technology awards.
Todd Tauber
SVP Marketing, Degreed
Todd leads Degreed’s Marketing team. His thought leadership on workforce learning and
development (L&D) has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and The Atlantic as
well as by Chief Learning Officer, SHRM, and ATD.
Before Degreed, Todd led the enterprise learning practice at Bersin, Deloitte’s human capital
research business. He also helped bring Nomadic Learning, a pioneer in digital academies, to
market. And he launched a new corporate learning offering at global news publisher, The
Economist, where he also led strategy, M&A, and product development.
Todd has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA from The George Washington
University.