Nicole Helmer

Nicole Helmer is the Chief Product Officer 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 with AI ensuring organizations can anticipate and adapt to change. 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 and her work earned SAP recognition as a skills 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 so you can turn skills from a concept into a competitive advantage.