Empowering People
Uplifting Communities
OUR STORY
Our Life Purpose
Empowering individuals, including young people, to embrace Social Emotional Intelligence to achieving success in academic, business, career and life.
The company, inspiraComm, was established in December 2016 by Rashid Mat and Nurlina Hussin, a husband and wife team and parents of 3 children. With a combined of over 50 years of working experience in the corporate world, both of them decided to start a social enterprise wanting to contribute more to others, with their shared values, experiences, expertise and passion.
Since 2016 to 2017, they have been inspiring entrepreneurs via an online magazine titled inspiraC, publishing a total of 24 copies of to empower women and young people. As advocators of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they also helped MaGIC and MBI to organise inspiraC bazaars to help entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs to earn income by selling products and services to sustain businesses.
In 2017, they started a literacy programme as volunteers to help slow learner Orang Asli primary students to read and write in English and Bahasa languages. From 2018 onwards, they became coaches, trainers and mentors to help school students and youths instil life and study skills using Growth Mindset to help stimulate their interest in learning and character development to improve school attendance and drop-out rates to be future-ready.
2018 – 2020:
Over the years, they have extended their educational programmes to include economic empowerment programmes. As a result, they started impacting 50 students, then the numbers grew 10 fold. Their passion is help more people including the underprivileged from the rural and urban poor communities in Malaysia and eventually to South East Asia.
The co-founders are certified trainers, speakers and mentors to help more individuals in different communities to thrive by using the magic of Growth mindset to achieve business, career and life success.
Received the Malaysian National Sustainability Recognition Award in 2019 and certified as Social Enterprise Basic by Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives (MEDAC).
In 2021, inspiraComm received a token of appreciation award from Malaysia’s former Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Ismail Sabri, for an entrepreneurship programme to empower Orang Asli youths and women in collaboration with SME Corporation.
In 2022, the co-founders showcased their social enterprise at the TBN Asia Social Enterprise Conference in Bali, Indonesia.
In 2023, inspiraComm was featured in MixFM national radio station and showcased their social enterprise to the Deputy Minister of Local Government Ministry.
In 2025, both co-founders, Rashid and Nurlina, were appointed as Council of Expert members for Government-Industry TVET Coordination Body (GITC) for 3 years.
Today, they are focussing on expanding their training programmes to corporate trainings focusing on bridging generations with effective communication and social emotional intelligence, introducing programme ASCEND for career development for youths and social entrepreneurship trainings for businesses interested in creating impactful projects.
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Our Approach
Why Us?
Passionate in training.
Use real-world experiences, from both the corporate and social enterprise worlds with combined over 50 years of working experience.
Our team of coaches, trainers and facilitators are equipped with vast practical techniques and experiences with a minimum of 300 of combined coaching, speaking and training hours.
Built connections with companies, government and communities including rural as well as urban poor communities
Confident
I am Confident
Independent
I am Independent
Resilient
I am Resilient
Communicator
I am a Communicator
Lifelong Learner
I am a Lifelong Learner
Empowered
I am Empowered
As a Social Enterprise, Our Mission is:
Resilient Citizens
Help individuals to be adaptable, agile and independent
Target by 2030
50,000 individuals
Lifelong Learners
Help individuals to improve skills, community livelihood and lead more meaningful lives.
Our Vision
Thriving Communities
A world where individuals are thriving and leading quality lives with greater meaning, impact and purpose
our co-founder
Rashid Mat
Chief Empowerment Officer
Rashid Mat is an author, speaker, trainer and social entrepreneur with over 3 decades of working experience in corporate. He is known as the Chief Empowerment Officer.
With over 30 years of working experience, he was the General Manager at Cyberview Sdn Bhd responsible for 5 portfolios covering business development, stakeholder relations, township planning and marketing communications for the development of Cyberjaya.
On his career achievements, he has experience preparing reports for meetings at Parliament of Malaysia, received the National Sustainability Recognition Award in 2019 and was one of the core team member in the development of Cyberjaya. He was appointed as a Council of Expert Member for Government-Industry TVET Coordination Body (GITC) for 2025 – 2027.
He has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Arkansas, USA.
Today, his passion is training children and young people to use empower them with social emotional intelligence to achieve business, career and life success and undertaking speaking engagements to inspire others to make a difference in their lives.
On a personal note, he is a dad of 3 and a football dad.
Certification:
Kursus Bina Negara (Kejurulatihan) – Biro Tatanegara Jabatan Perdana Menteri.
Membership:
Sustainable Business Network
Alumni of Social Entrepreneurship Training Hub (SETH) by Transformational Business Network (TBN) Asia, Singapore
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) – Moody’s Stimulating Entrepreneurship & Business Growth Programme.
Language: English and Malay
Country: Malaysia
our co-founder
Nurlina Hussin
Communication Trainer – Intergenerational Teams
Nurlina Hussin is an author, experienced trainer accredited by HRDC, international certified professional trainer – IPMA UK, social entrepreneur and aspiring international speaker, with over 2 decades working experience in corporate.
Previously, she has led communications teams at managerial positions in various companies, including a global company based in Sydney, Australia and top international schools in Kuala Lumpur, she was an external examiner and industry panel advisor at various well-known universities. She was appointed as a Council of Expert Member for Government-Industry TVET Coordination Body (GITC) for 2025 – 2027.
On her career achievements, she was an online magazine editor, newspaper weekly columnist. She was interviewed by Mix FM national radio to share about her amazing social impact projects and journey.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications at Curtin University, Perth, Australia and a Master’s degree in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University Malaysia.
Her passion is training individuals to enhance their in communication with social emotional intelligence in intergenerational teams. She started her career in training young people.
On a personal note, she is a mom of 3 and a football mom.
Certifications:
1. Certified Monitoring and Evaluation Practitioner – The Hasanah Academy
2. Teaching certificate by Min of Higher Education (MOHE)
3. Accredited HRDC Trainer
4. International Certified Professional Trainer (ICPT), IPMA UK
5. Game-based Learning Practitioner by DRB Hicom University
6. Communication for Development (C4D) by UNICEF
7. Dream Builder by Thunderbird School Global of Management and Arizona State University
Memberships:
- Associate Member of Malaysia Association of Professional Speakers (MAPS)
- Vice President of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
- Alumni of 1st batch for Academy of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) sponsored by US Embassy Kuala Lumpur
- Alumni of batch 3 Social Entrepreneurship Training Hub (SETH) by Transformational Business Network (TBN) Asia, Singapore
- Alumni of International Certified Professional Trainers (ICPT)
- Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) – Moody’s Stimulating Entrepreneurship & Business Growth Programme.
Language: English and Malay
Country: Malaysia