Hi Carole-Ann, thanks for taking a moment - 

(Here is a link I'll put a link to more information on the project referenced below, in case you want more context/background.)

I started "The Great Women Portrait Project" in 2023 and, thus far, it's focused - very successfully - on having corporate clients, primarily female CEOS & leaders in male-dominated domains like nuclear energy, commission portraits and prints of Great Women - ie historic women from the 'hidden' half of history - the female half; folks we never learned about in school.

My thinking has been:

if girls and young women knew the paths that pioneering women had paved in these fields (eg traditionally male-dominated domains like STEM), they'd have a sense of ownership and more confidence about stepping into these studies and professional arenas.

This year, I started learning about AI - and have been marrying my Great Women portrait art with AI to create 'speaking portraits' of historic female pioneers who;'e been left out of the history books.

My thought is this: what if I offered, each year, the opportunity for women leaders to fill in the educational gap they experienced.

How? By sending 5 of these AI Great Women "speaking portraits" to the female CEO/leader's old elementary school via the resource teacher, as a sort of 'career education' content offering.

It would be a beautiful legacy gift I think.

But (and here's where I'm hoping you might come in) I'm hesitant to start. Not sure why, exactly. Likely fear of failure lol.)

I'd like to reach out originally to Atlantic Canadian women leaders and

-see if they like the idea

-would want to "buy in" - perhaps at $500 per woman, which would enable them to pick 5 great women AI 'portraits' (I'd create an AI portrait gallery they could choose from)

- then I'd send their chose 5 Great Women AI portraits to the elementary school of their choice (via the school's resource teacher. I've already taken one portrait into two schools in Halifax and, not surprisingly, the AI engages the kids and the teachers love the portraits as a bio/history learning tool.)

I need a little feedback.

I feel like you - as a mother of Samantha and Alyssa, a supporter of women in business, and an innovative thinker interested in how women leaders are impacted by their early life experience....

well, my gut tells me your input here, at this critical (fear-blocked) juncture - and perhaps your suggestions on a few women leaders to reach out to - might be a wise 'ask' on my part.

Thanks,

Jo