AI for AI Skills: How Degreed Maestro Accelerates Gen AI Fluency

Isael Paz-Zimbeck

Thursday, August 14th, 2025

Executives across industries face a critical generative AI (Gen AI) readiness gap: 78% of employees lack the skills or confidence to apply Gen AI effectively, and only 2% of organizations are prepared for enterprise-scale adoption. In short, they’re missing AI skills.

Degreed Maestro is purpose-built to close this gap—delivering intelligent, personalized, and scalable learning experiences that convert Gen AI potential into productivity gains, innovation, and competitive advantage. Think of it as AI that can be used to build AI skills.

Here’s how:

Maestro Drives Precision at Scale.

Automatically generates personalized learning pathways aligned to job roles, skills, and business needs.
Maps Gen AI proficiency goals to learning moments—supporting roles like AI Trainers, Prompt Engineers, and Analysts.

Maestro Delivers Personalized Coaching for Confidence.

Delivers AI-powered coaching prompts and role-specific simulations to build Gen AI fluency.
Reinforces confidence through contextual support and feedback—key to sustained behavior change.

Maestro Embeds Learning in the Flow of Work.

Orchestrates learning moments based on individual user actions, roles, and preferences.
Promotes continuous learning habits by embedding recommendations and nudges into everyday workflows.

Maestro Has Measurable Impact on Skills & Business Outcomes.

Tracks confidence growth, skill proficiency, and learning behavior over time.
Integrates with Degreed Skills+ to provide real-time analytics and link Gen AI learning to business strategy.

Strategic Outcomes

Accelerated Gen AI proficiency across the workforce
Increased engagement, retention, and internal mobility
Reduced time-to-impact for Gen AI use cases
Alignment of learning investments to workforce transformation goals and business performance metrics