EQUAL! is driven by its ‘Focus Groups’, that are staffed every year to help the organization achieves its goals on four different areas. Those Focus Groups are open to any EQUAL! member to participate in and/or co-lead.

Education/Awareness

• Co-leads: Glenda Childress & Ryk Koscielski
• Mission: To govern EQUAL! Education and Awareness Activities for 2011 (courseware, IDAHO, GLBTAM, NCOD, World AIDS Day, etc.)

Visibility

• Co-leads: John Fredette & Jérôme Meyer
• Mission: Handle the external & internal marketing of the EQUAL! Organization to raise visibility of EQUAL! within Alcatel-Lucent as a pillar of diversity, a recruiting asset; support Membership Focus Area by reaching all potential new members on a global basis

Benefits

• Co-leads: (open slot) & Thierry Hochart
• Mission: Identify benefit and policy gaps and to seek improvements; maintain and improve our documented benefit package for all employees

Membership

• Co-leads: Kelley Neal and Thierry Hochart
• Mission: Find ways to grow EQUAL! membership – looking for opportunities for new chapters.   Increase the active participation of our members.