OUR STORY
Alma Besserdin is a Founder and Director of Wimmigrants. Being a professional woman immigrant, who had to deal with challenges of immigration herself, has inspired her to establish Wimmigrants.
Her vision is to help other professional women immigrants (Wimmigrants ) achieve their career aspirations and become leaders in their workplace and community.
She is passionate in improving gender equality, inclusion and diversity, and she helps organisations increase their productivity by maximising diversity and create a culture of innovation and engagement from inside out.
Alma is a great combination of mentor, leadership and career coach, an experienced business professional and entrepreneur and has the proven knowledge, expertise and wisdom to help you achieve your desired goals.
Alma is a Board Director, with an extensive corporate career in HR & Business Transformation.
She is a mentor and a State Councilor at the AHRI and a mentor at the RMIT Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program.
Alma is an Australia Day Ambassador.
Our Vision
To be highly recognised and influential, equality, inclusion and diversity advocacy platform, to empower women migrants and contribute to closing the gender gap, improving inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
Our Purpose
• To advocate, influence and collaborate with organisations to improve outcomes in gender equity, women’s empowerment and inclusion.
• To help migrant women successfully integrate into the new environment, build confidence to reach their career aspirations and become leaders in their workplaces and community.
• To be the global talent connector enabling organisations to tap into the pool of highly skilled migrant women and improve gender equality, diversity and inclusive leadership.
Our Values
- Passion and Purpose
- Integrity
- Ongoing learning
- Making a difference
- Collaboration
