Nicole Helmer

Nicole Helmer is the VP of Product for AI and Skills at Degreed, leading the evolution of enterprise learning with a skills-first, AI-powered approach. She is driving Degreed’s vision to personalize learning, measure impact, and scale coaching with AI—ensuring organizations can anticipate and adapt to change, not just react to it. Before Degreed, Nicole was VP of Learning & Development at SAP, where she led skill development for over 100,000 employees and spearheaded SAP’s transformation into a skills-based organization. She built foundational systems for skills measurement, taxonomy, and job architecture—work that earned SAP recognition as a lighthouse company by the World Economic Forum in 2024. Nicole believes that the biggest threat to enterprises isn’t technology—it’s the inability to evolve fast enough. Skills intelligence is the key to staying ahead. She champions the use of AI to make learning more actionable, adaptive, and deeply personalized—turning skills from a concept into a competitive advantage.