CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIES
Nadia Elkharadly helps organizations speak to the world with awareness.
THE MISSION
To reduce harm, prevent trauma and promote equality with thoughtful, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed communication practices.
Through training, education and strategic guidance through challenging conversations and situations, Nadia’s works to be a resource and service provider to organizations and individuals navigating the ever evolving ways that we interact with each other in business and in life.
Nadia Elkharadly (She/Her)
An Egyptian Canadian who identifies as female, Nadia Elkharadly is a savvy and dynamic communications professional. She has worked in oil and gas, telecommunications, engineering, banking and digital media, where she was often the only woman, and only person of color, in most spaces. Now, Nadia’s mission is to help ensure that businesses and other entities communicate with marginalized and vulnerable communities with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind. Nadia leverages her identity, her growing knowledge and education on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as well as her lived and work experiences to help raise awareness and understanding on this vital subject.
Services
01
EDI focused Business Strategy Consulting
Coming up with a new marketing campaign or slogan? Are you unsure if your business name is offensive? Is your workforce lacking in diversity and you’re ready to make a change? Just want to ensure that your strategic initiatives incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion? Nadia will work with you to ensure that any public/client/customer facing campaigns and materials are created with equity and diversity in mind. She will also help guide you through best practices for staffing and hiring to ensure that your staff represent the same level of diversity and inclusion that your clients and customers expect of you.
02
Nightlife/Entertainment/Event Consulting
Looking to make your event more inclusive and welcoming to your target audience? With years of experience in event production in the nightlife space here in Toronto, Nadia can work with you to embrace and expand your clientele by catering your events to them. From strategic partnerships, sponsorships and overall production, leverage Nadia’s knowledge and experience to create memorable and meaningful events that will be the talk of the town.
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Communications Consulting
Communicating with internal and external stakeholders should be a top priority for any business. Nadia can work with you to craft your brand’s voice and tone, create communication and brand guidelines, and shape your communications assets no matter who the audience. Nadia will always incorporate a focus on diversity and inclusion to all communications related work, to ensure your words and ideas reach your audience the way you want them to.
04
Discussion Facilitation
Have difficult and challenging conversations around gender, race, privilege and other tough topics crept up in your workplace? Are you struggling with how to navigate these discussions in a positive and constructive manner? Leveraging discussion techniques such as the Circle Method, instituting norms and boundaries to create safe spaces for discussion and her own experiences, Nadia can help to facilitate discussions regarding issues of diversity and equality to improve your workplace environment and interpersonal connections in your organization.
05
Fractional EDI Officer
If your company prefers longer term strategic guidance, consider bringing Nadia onboard as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. This method provides more agility and affordability than an in house DEI role, perfect for small businesses and growing startups. Nadia will work with you on DEI focused strategic and business functions for your business, for both internal and customer facing processes and initiatives. As well, Nadia can offer your staff a neutral and confidential space to express concerns they may have when it comes to issues of race and gender, and work with you on structural, long term solutions to address them. Build more trust in your brand by making diversity and equality a key priority in your business today.
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Crisis Management
Sometimes even the most well thought out campaigns and other communication techniques can result in challenging and even contentious situations or worse, public scrutiny and criticism. With a trauma informed lens and diversity aware mindset, Nadia will work with clients to diffuse the negative attention, mitigate the response in a constructive manner, as well as provide a post crisis analysis to ensure that all learnings are incorporated in ongoing and future processes to prevent recurrences.
