I’m looking into real estate developer and art collector Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos after attending her Business of Art Women’s Power Breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad, which brought together a panel of art world leaders that included public art leader Yvonne Force, gallerist Nicola Vassell, art advisor Jeanne Greenberg and Marlies Verhoeven Reijtenbagh, co-founder and CEO of The Cultivist. As I scan the search results, this sentence catches my eye: “Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos is used to being the only woman in the room.” As it turns out, it was the lede in a profile written earlier this year by Chava Gourarie for our sister publication, Commercial Observer. (Olarte de Kanavos was honored on this year’s Commercial Observer Power List.)

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The irony, of course, is that while the Flag Luxury Group co-founder, president and COO has no doubt often been the sole woman at the table many, many times, she’s also currently actively engaged in creating spaces in which there are only women in the room. Her Women’s Power Series, which she launched with her daughter, Sophia Kanavos, invites women from across industries to come together and learn from each other as a way to empower ambitious women and narrow gender gaps.

Initially inspired by International Women’s Day (March 8, for those out of the loop), the pair had accessibility on their minds. “We noticed that there were not that many women participating in these huge business........

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