Interested in how businesses can make a healthy profit while doing educating and keeping the community safer around water?

Join us for a Hacker Nation Special Edition as we host:

Lessons from the Pool:
What 3M Swimming Lessons taught me about Business Ownership
With Miren Oca
Wed. October 9, 2024
12 p.m. to 1:30 pm
StartUP FIU - Main Space
MARC Bldg. 3rd Floor

REGISTER HERE: https://fiu.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10286713

During this dynamic event, you will learn from Miren Oca, founder and CEO of Ocaquatics Swim School, about:

• How businesses can make a healthy profit while operating as a force for good for team members, the community and the planet
• How doing good can lead to a successful business model
• How an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) can be a viable alternative to traditional business ownership, offering a unique opportunity to use your business as a force for good.

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About Miren Oca & Ocaquatics Swim School:

Miren Oca is the founder and CEO of Ocaquatics Swim School, a certified B Corporation. Ocaquatics was founded in 1994 and is a 100% employee owned, community involved business that provides positive, fun swimming classes in 5 warm water, beautiful facilities around Miami, Florida.  Ocaquatics employs 165 team members and teaches approximately 6500 swimming lessons per week during the high season. A sixth indoor swim school location is in the planning stages. 

Ocaquatics’ has two critical missions:

• Connect with families to teach swimmers to love swimming and become safer, more comfortable and more responsible in, on, and around the water.
• Connect with team members and help them grow within a framework of social and environmental responsibility. This allows them to scale the swim school in a sustainable way, and make a bigger impact in the world.