Co-President’s Message,

Year End 2009 Where to begin? It has been an amazing year for GALAXe, Pride at Work. We began the year by saying goodbye to a great friend and ally and our Corporate Champion for the previous 3 years, Bill Steenburgh. Bill will be missed by all. He is a great Xerox Leader and we appreciate all his years of support as an ally. We then greeted and met with our new Corporate Champion, Sophie Vandebroek, CTO and President of Xerox Innovation Group. Sophie proved herself to be “fearless” and passionate in advocating for an equitable work environment for LGBT employees. Sophie quickly immersed herself to become culturally competent in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. She supported us by moving forward many of our initiatives including Self-ID, Education and Ally/Out Leader engagement.
We have had a very exciting 2009 starting with Co-President’s Message, Year End 2009 Where to begin? It has been an amazing year for GALAXe, Pride at Work. We began the year by saying goodbye to a great friend and ally and our Corporate Champion for the previous 3 years, Bill Steenburgh. Bill will be missed by all. He is a great Xerox Leader and we appreciate all his years of support as an ally. We then greeted and met with our new Corporate Champion, Sophie Vandebroek, CTO and President of Xerox Innovation Group. Sophie proved herself to be “fearless” and passionate in advocating for an equitable work environment for LGBT employees. Sophie quickly immersed herself to become culturally competent in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. She supported us by moving forward many of our initiatives including Self-ID, Education and Ally/Out Leader engagement.
We have had a very exciting 2009 starting with For 2010, we are continuing our focus on the following Top Priorities;
• Self Identification for LGBT employees in our employee profiles and on EES surveys ,
• Global Membership/Chapter Growth ,
• Out Senior Leadership (LGBT Band A & Bs)
• GALAXe Conference concurrent with Out & Equal Workplace Summit - Los Angeles CA October 2010
• LGBT Market Development, and
• Ally development.
These are very exciting times for us to better serve our LGBT Employees and make it a safe and secure environment to be out and proud.
We would also like to extend a welcome and congratulations to our new 2010 Co-President, Danielle Fiorini. Danielle will join Scott as Co-President for 2010-2011. Sue will remain with us on the board as Past President. She will continue to provide counsel and support as we continue to grow. I would personally like to say thank you to Sue for her tireless work these past two years, providing us with great leadership, her time and her creativity. Please join me in welcoming Danielle and in thanking Sue.
We have accomplished much and have much yet to do. We look forward to continuing these efforts in moving forward the LGBT initiatives and awareness’s within our company. Together we can!!!
Scott and Sue