Novo Nordisk Inc. (NNI), a North American affiliate of the global pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, which is headquartered in Denmark, operates in a highly dynamic marketplace. Although NNI has only 5,000 employees (accounting, for only 16 percent of the company’s global workforce), it was the fastest-growing affiliate and responsible for over 62 percent of the overall company’s growth in 2014.

Stephen Dwight, vice president of talent management, sought to find a way to further emp