Leadership Podcast: Adeola Whitney

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The Power of Play. Remember Recess? It's Not Just Fun and Games. Especially for Inner-City Schools.

Meet Adeola Whitney, Newark Executive Director of Playworks.

This is Peter Clayton with a special Leadership Channel podcast. One of the very cool and amazing people I met at Salesforce.com Cloudforce 2011 conference in New York City last week is Adeola Whitney, Newark Executive Director for Playworks. This innovative non-profit, with a vision "to make it possible for every child in America to play every day," is supported by the technology and people of Salesforce.com thorough their Foundation.


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