Investor Presentaiton
Novo Nordisk Annual Report 2023
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Introducing Novo Nordisk Strategic Aspirations Risks
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Empowering colleagues through
diversity and inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are central to our business and
purpose. In our rapidly growing organisation, we aim to create
an inclusive culture where all employees feel valued and are
given equal opportunities to realise their potential and where,
together, we better reflect the diversity of the patients and
communities we serve. Encouraging diverse perspectives and
promoting inclusive leadership adds value to Novo Nordisk by
bringing out the best in our people, fostering new ideas and
sparking innovation.
Our aim is to achieve balanced gender representation across
all managerial levels, with a minimum of 45% women and 45%
men in senior leadership roles by the end of 2025. There is still
work to be done but we are making significant progress. At the
end of 2023, 41% of senior leadership positions were filled by
women, compared to 39% one year earlier.
Gender is only one element of diversity, and we want to build
a more representative workforce across all dimensions,
including ethnicity, race, age, nationality, disability status
and sexual orientation - not to mention diversity of thought.
We are committed to including these important parameters
globally as we embed them into our people processes and the
employee experience, from initial attraction and recruitment
through to talent development and leadership training.
In the context of the rapid growth of our global organisation,
this is no small feat. We added more than nine thousand
employees to Novo Nordisk in 2023, and have gone to great
lengths to sharpen our focus on onboarding and upskilling
our new colleagues into their new roles, nurturing a workplace
culture built upon foundational values of openness,
accountability and respect. We measure our success in this
regard by tracking employee engagement via a yearly
all-company Evolve survey, recording an overall engagement
score of 86% in 2023 - up from 85% in 2022 and placing us in
the top quartile of Most Engaged Companies for the first time.
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP (%)
2019
2020
2021 2022
2023
EVP/SVP
18
24
28
29
36
CVP
33
37
39
40
41
VP
35
36
36
40
42
Senior leadership
33
35
36
39
41
Director
43
41
44
44
47
Manager and team lead
40
42
43
45
46
All leaders
44
46
11
10
40
41
33
43
44
Michele De Gier Gustafsson
heads a clinical digital systems
team in Søborg, Denmark.View entire presentation