💡 On our power of play series this week we talk with Courtney McLeod.

Courtney is an award-winning speaker and a professional life and leadership coach. Her super power is helping people experience and achieve things they never thought possible and she does this work through one-on-one and group coaching programs. She loves leading corporate team-building events and workshops designed to positively impact participants. Courtney infuses fun and playfulness into all aspects of the work she does because she believes in the transformative power of play.

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💡 On our power of play series this week we talk with Dr. Paul Davarsi. Play and learning (aren’t they the same thing?) are his twin passions, and lie at the heart of everything he does. Paul teaches about games and play at the University of Toronto, where he is a founding member of the PlayLab. Paul makes games and playful experiences in his role as CEO and co-founder of Gold Bug Interactive, and he bring players together as the Executive Director of the Serious Play Conference. While based in Canada, Paul works with organizations around the world, including UNESCO, the US Department of Education, and diverse NGOs and cultural institutions. His work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CBC, the Huffington Post, and Polygon, among others.

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💡 On our power of play series this week we talk with Dr. Peg Oliveira. Dr. Oliveira is a child development expert and an activist. Since receiving her doctorate in developmental psychology from Brandeis University, Dr. Oliveira has advocated for fair pay for early childhood educators, child care assistance for working parents and equitable access to high quality education.

Peg is currently the founding director of the Gesell Program in Early Childhood at the Yale Child Study Center. Peg navigated the transition of the historic Gesell Institute, a respected nonprofit child advocacy organization since 1950, into the Yale Child Study Center to honor Dr. Arnold Gesell, the founder of the Yale Child Study Center. Prior to her work with Gesell, Peg was a Senior Policy Fellow with CT Voices for Children as well as a consultant to the CT Office of Early Childhood and other child advocacy organizations.

Peg is a member the Board of Directors of the Becket Chimney Corners YMCA, and was the founding director of 108 Monkeys, a nonprofit yoga service organization.

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