New ‘Bold Ideas’ White Paper Explores How AI Can Advance Both Innovation and Sustainability

June 16, 20252 minute read

The Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay, founded by AWESOME’s own Ann Drake, has released its first-ever Bold Ideas white paper: Balancing the Benefits of AI & the Health of Our Planet. And AWESOME women played a major role in making it happen.

This groundbreaking report explores how artificial intelligence can drive both innovation and environmental progress, and outlines six practical steps organizations can take today to use AI more sustainably and responsibly. From corporate strategy to supply chain to public policy, the paper draws on the expertise of women leaders across industries who are already paving the way.

The paper was developed in close collaboration with a dynamic group of AWESOME leaders and advisors whose insights helped shape the direction and recommendations of the report:

This white paper is the first in a series of Bold Ideas initiatives from the Women’s Leadership Center, a future gathering space in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, where women leaders will come together to solve global challenges through bold, interdisciplinary thinking.

Featuring perspectives from leaders at Google, Microsoft, Duke University, EY Atlanta, the Kellogg School of Management, Keurig Dr Pepper, and others, this paper makes the case for why women’s voices must be part of the future of AI.