Having issued over 3000 Instructor level certifications, received the Platinum PADI Award for the past 7 years and having taught PADI Programs for over 17 years Holly Macleod is a Globally Recognized Industry Leading Award Winning Multiple Platinum PADI Course Director; who has the experience necessary to train professional scuba diving Instructors to a level over and beyond that generally seen, and provide real life experience based emphasis on training.
This is just one example of inspirational professional instructor trainers working within todays recreational diving Industry where pure experience is worn on the sleeve, and knowledge truly is power when it comes to providing others with the necessary tools to create their very own successful careers within the diving Industry. As with any modern day hierarchical system and more so in the private self-regulated sector, there will always be some dive professionals looking to fast track the system of already blurred boundaries in a system that’s always willing to move the goal posts.
Of course Holly Macleod has received Multiple Awards from PADI Worldwide, PADI Asia Pacific and the Diving Industry itself including Platinum, Elite, Professionalism and Industry Commitment Awards as well a whole host of “Certificates of Excellence” and can always play off of a 100% Pass rate, but listen; let’s check out a little more information that’s relevant to you in terms of Experience, Assurance and Quality.
Experience is an easy one having already touched on the subject and when choosing any kind of professional dive education it’s important to do your homework and research the place, the person and the type of program they are offering and make a decision based upon real life facts including experience, reputation and passion for diving and dive training. As previously mentioned Holly Macleod on the Gili Islands PADI IDC is considered to be the poster girl when it comes to this subject.
Assurance really comes hand in hand with experience and once a professional diver is assured that the person has the necessary experience they just need to be assured that that person is on site and actually teaching the entire program from start to finish. When taking Instructor training with Holly Macleod professional divers can be assured that the program is fully conducted by Holly, who sees the program through, from start to finish; entirely removing the common confusions regarding “who’s actually running the program” that usually occurs with the announcement of Multiple Course Directors, Multiple Locations and Course Directors that variate locations. Another great assurance is that the program always takes place in the first PADI 5 Star IDC Career Development Centre (CDC) to be established in the Gili Islands, Indonesia ensuring the highest possible standard of training facilities combined with the most experienced professional training centre
Quality is really something that comes aligned with experience and a passion for diving and in particular the provision of professional training and the only real way to quantify it would be to meet or hear from previous candidates. Aside from travelling around and asking people face to face the only real source of information is the internet. Another great way of assessing quality is to check out previous reviews from those who have taken the program; of course the most accurate way to do this is via TripAdvisor providing the worlds most unbiased, unedited and un skewed real life reviews and a great example of this can be seen with the PADI IDC Gili Islands Page which lists a series of first hand reviews relating directly to the experiences had by professional divers taking instructor training with PADI Course Director Holly Macleod.
TripAdvisor providing the worlds most unbiased, unedited and un skewed real life reviews and a great example of this can be seen with the PADI IDC Gili Islands Page which lists a series of first hand reviews relating directly to the experiences had by professional divers taking instructor training with PADI Course Director Holly Macleod.