Doug McNeese – President of SSI’s International Business Development

In this podcast episode I chat with Doug McNeese. Doug is President of Scuba Schools International (SSI)’s International Business Development where he travels the world educating dive centers on how to be more successful in their businesses. Well how does one get to do that? It helps when your father owned a dive center! As you’ll hear in this episode Doug was not only raised working in his father’s dive center, he eventually bought it from his father and opened three more highly successful stores called simply, The Dive Shop.

Doug went on to purchase the National Association of Scuba Diving Schools (NASDS). He made remarkable improvements to NASDS and then saw the opportunity to merge with SSI and nearly a decade later he purchased SSI. And most recently he sold SSI to the HEAD Group where it is flourishing and he is still leading professionals with his secrets to success learned from his early days.

Doug is highly respected in the diving industry and he was awarded the DEMA Reaching out award in 2017. And as you’ll hear he loves to give back to the industry and he has done this through his efforts with both the Platinum Pro Foundation and Sea of Change Foundation.

Items in this Podcast

• Learning to dive as a 10 year old in 1962
  
• Worked at his father’s dive shop called The Dive Shop
  
• Purchasing the National Association of Scuba Diving Schools (NASDS)
  
• Merging NASDS with Scuba Schools International (SSI)
  
• SSI and the HEAD Group
  
• Passion for diving leads to a passion for the business of diving
  
• Assisting divers in need
  
• Advice for divers

Resources

Scuba Schools International

Platinum Pro Foundation Nomination Form

Sea of Change Foundation

Sponsor

Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Adventures

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