Degreed Introduces New Solutions for Accelerating AI Fluency and Leadership Transformation at LENS 2026

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Degreed, the leading AI-powered system for enterprise workforce transformation, announced today a significant set of AI-driven solutions at its flagship LENS 2026 conference in Orlando (FL). These new innovations are designed to give global enterprises the infrastructure to move beyond endless transformation projects and unlock dynamic systems for lowering operating costs, accelerating talent outcomes, and scaling business impact.

As organizations race to adopt AI technology, a significant human readiness gap is widening. According to McKinsey, while 92% of companies plan to invest more in AI, only 1% consider their organizations ‘mature’ in AI adoption, a disconnect that often causes transformation efforts to fail or stall. AI-powered systems like Degreed Maestro and Degreed Solution Accelerators provide the necessary adaptive, contextual guidance to bridge this gap. By focusing on the human side of change, surfacing confidence gaps, identifying points of friction, and tailoring development in context, these systems help translate AI ambition into sustained, repeatable progress.

New AI Transformation Solutions Unlocked

The new Degreed Solution Accelerators are launch-ready, outcome-based programs intentionally designed and packaged to help enterprises accelerate critical workforce capability building at scale. Degreed Solution Accelerators come pre-built while allowing customization through configurable elements aligned to business goals and brand. The first two Solution Accelerators focus on Leadership Transformation and AI Fluency, with additional categories expected to be available in the coming months.

Transforming leadership at scale requires sustained reinforcement, clear priorities, and a data-driven approach. The Leadership Transformation Solution helps enterprises accelerate leadership capability building, combining ongoing assessments and benchmarking with targeted Maestro experiences and a standardized Leadership Academy to improve leadership effectiveness and strengthen performance across teams.

In parallel, Degreed’s AI Fluency Solution provides a framework that pairs solution-specific curated and created content with guided practice experiences and measurement, helping employees use AI effectively in everyday work, validate outputs, and follow clear guardrails as adoption scales.

Both solutions are designed for scalable delivery through guided program-based learning, including cohort-based delivery, global-ready design, and ongoing measurement to demonstrate progress and impact over time. They also incorporate a suite of new AI features designed to help organizations diagnose the friction that slows transformation and support the human behaviors that determine whether change sticks. By turning invisible barriers like low employee confidence or misaligned incentives into actionable data, tools like Maestro’s Guided Conversations allow CIOs and CHROs to understand the human side of change, and strategically prioritize resources to build a workforce capable of adapting as quickly as the technology being deployed.

Maestro’s new Skills Check-In functionality helps organizations gather trusted, usable, human-in-the-loop skill data. Skill Check-ins balance speed and accuracy, using the organizations own taxonomy and proficiency scales to guide employees to calibrate their ratings, giving businesses the robust data needed for talent strategies. Furthermore, evolved Custom rubrics align role-play sessions with organizational priorities, turning consistent practice into measurable performance improvement at scale. These powerful tools, now combined with surveys directly in Degreed, provide the intelligence required to support successful, large-scale transformations.

“Organizations today are under enormous pressure to do more with less, but business transformations aren’t just about efficiency and speed. Every company today has access to AI potential,” said David Blake, CEO at Degreed. “However, the only difference between leaders and laggards is whether they’ve mastered the human side of change. Degreed Maestro translates abstract AI ambition into the everyday human actions that rewire productivity and performance at scale."

Strengthened Extended Enterprise Infrastructure

Degreed also announced significant enhancements to its enterprise infrastructure designed to support greater scale, security, automation, and organizational complexity. New Tenant Workspaces enable large enterprises to segment users by teams, regions, or business units with greater flexibility and governance, while maintaining centralized control. This shift introduces a new enterprise-grade governance model that allows a single enterprise to operate as one connected learning ecosystem, reducing administrative overhead across all employees and external audiences. This infrastructure is further strengthened by a new secure View as a User capability, which allows authorized administrators to temporarily access user accounts for troubleshooting while maintaining strict security.

Degreed’s MCP enables secure, governed, AI-powered access to Degreed’s trusted skills and learning system of record directly within tools like ChatGPT and Claude allowing users to manage and update skills, discover and share learning resources and take action with personalized guidance, while organizations maintain control over which Degreed capabilities are available at any time.

To ensure organizations have the intelligence needed for successful transformations, Degreed has launched a new reporting backbone, delivering more scalable, enterprise-grade analytics that provide consistent insights for evolving business needs. Furthermore, the newly announced ability to use skills as conditions for automations means global organizations can orchestrate hyper-personalized capability-building experiences that ensure the right learning, workflows, and opportunities are triggered for the right people at the right time, based on verified skills and needs.

To learn more about the announcements at LENS 2026, please visit degreed.com.

About Degreed

Degreed is the leading AI-powered learning system for enterprise workforce transformation. With conversational, AI-native learning experiences, adaptive content, cohort academies, and dynamic pathways, you can hyper-personalize development for future roles and enable your workforce to adapt to the next big change. Learn more at www.degreed.com.