To say entrepreneurial businesswoman Ana Vilhete leads a busy life would be an understatement, and that’s putting it lightly.
She founded Alium Consultancy in 2020 in London, a company that now grosses the equivalent of more than $13 million annually. Vilhete has a London law firm with seven attorneys on staff, and she’s also an inspirational speaker with a growing social media following.
But Vilhete has her sights set on more, with Alium expanding its presence in the U.S., and Vilhete hoping to share her story to a wider American audience.
“I love what I do, so I’m always excited to get up in the morning––and I also hate sleeping,” Vilhete says. “So I always have time, I always find time. If you love something you will find time.”
Alium Consultancy already has an office in Delaware, and Vilhete, who once fled a war zone and now lives in London, will travel to Philadelphia on November 4 to establish an office and build a team there. Her mission is even further expansion in the future––Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida, perhaps. The business also works with a handful of U.S. states.
“We provide staffing services across the United States for both technology and healthcare,” Vilhete says. “We do a lot of nurses in hospitals you may be going to, we provide those nurses and some of the physicians. We worked in the U.S. during COVID with FEMA and assisted several states and with COVID responses and travel nurses. We also work with huge businesses like IBM and we provide technology, as well, when it comes to staffing. The expansion is for the business to continue to provide the services and perhaps more across the board, to expand its reach and have access to more clientele.”
Atrium is headquartered in London, and has offices internationally in Holland, Amsterdam, Portugal, Cape Town and presence in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Spain, Austria and Czech Republic.
Vilhete, as a public speaker, podcast guest and more, wants to expand her personal reach with a goal of inspiring as many people as she can with stories of her challenging background and as an example that anyone can be anything.
“That’s the common theme, the American dream,” she says. “I’m actually living it as well.”
In England, Vilhete is a contributor to Good Morning Britain and speaks at universities, sharing her story and also providing legal and business advice.
She’s never met anyone from the same background as herself, Vilhete says––she fled a war zone and didn’t have hot water until she was 13. She’s migrated twice for a better life and says she’s a demonstration that if you give someone like her a chance, she’ll give it back 10 times greater to society.
“I think I’ve demonstrated to have been able to surpass my limitations when it comes to being dyslexic, as well,” Vilhete says. “I’ve surpassed my circumstances, where I was born, to whom I was born to and I was the first person and the only person in my household to have gone to university.”
“I never forget where I came from, the slums of Portugal and the slums of Angola,” Vilhete says. “I certainly feel that life has not given me a good hand and I have been able to utilize the resources given to me and multiply that and become a successful businesswoman. That’s the basis for why I feel confident on how I can inspire others. If I can do it, anyone can do it.”
Vilhete, even with all her ventures, wants people to know she’s just like anyone else, with the same challenges, and she’s never going to say no to an individual who reaches out and wants to speak.
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