Allied Folk will be a speaker at the Forum on Workplace Inclusion’s annual conference event! Please follow the Forum on Workplace Inclusion conference link here for more information about the conference. Our session “Edit, Undo Delete?” is detailed below:

Words matter, making the balance between upholding brand language and avoiding making watered down promises a challenge. Though all workplaces have them, corporate ethos, communication guidelines, and company policies can clash with words that mean the most to many employees. Additionally, concepts like coded language and loaded position descriptions continue to uphold social constructs such as racism, ableism, sexism and beyond. How do we stay true to our brand without perpetuating stereotypes and creating harm in the workplace?

This session will lead participants through an exploration of how we unintentionally reinforce social constructs with language, and how to end the practice at work. Together we will examine the impact of sanitized language in the workplace, the ways in which it is most commonly used, and where the most meaningful adjustments can be made.