Emily Jones attributes the success of the Lambda Network to its initial support from Kodak senior management. The excerpt is from Lambda Network: Creating Change.
At Kodak, employee networks benefited both their members and Kodak corporate. While Kodak expanded globally, it worked with its employee networks, so its commitment to diversity and inclusion would expand with it.
As Kodak's employee network program grew, it updated its guidelines for them. Notice the difference of the author of these guidelines and the autor of the 1993-11 guidelines.
Deb Price was well read in Rochester, which had a rich LGBTQ community before the Lambda Network formed, and the network's success is partly due to its engagement with that community. Members of the Lambda Network were involved with local LGBTQ organizations, like the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley (now the Out Alliance) and the Rochester Gay Chorus, and the network itself collaborated with some of them.
The Lambda Network wanted George Fisher at their first event with management enough to reschedule it, because the network knew it would struggle without CEO support. At the 1995 (1st) Lambda Network at Kodak Education Event with Management, George Fisher's acceptance of the group helped make the Lambda Network's mission become one of the company's.
Given by the Lambda Network at its Education Events, OUTSpoken & Visible awards were a feel-good way to celebrate people who helped improve LGBTQ safety, education, etc. at Kodak and encourage others to do similarly.
From left to right: Kathryn Rivers, Anne Fisher, George Fisher, Elizabeth Birch, Emily Jones, and David Kosel pose at the 1995 (1st) Lambda Network at Kodak Education Event with Management.
