Supporting sobriety at work: How Salesforce created inclusion with ‘Soberforce’

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Marin Nelson felt like she was going to vomit. 

In late 2020, working as a regional VP for the enterprise sales team at Salesforce, she sent a company-wide message to 50,000 of her colleagues, identifying herself as an alcoholic, sharing her journey to sobriety, and inviting her coworkers to join a new sober-focused employee group called Soberforce. 

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Stephanie Schomer is the editor-in-chief of Employee Benefit News. She was most recently the deputy editor of Entrepreneur magazine and previously held positions at Entertainment Weekly, … Read full bio


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