Alexandros Tsachouridis
Founder & 1:1 High-Impact Mentor | Leadership Transformation & Sobriety | Zürich
Alexandros Tsachouridis
Founder & 1:1 High-Impact Mentor | Leadership Transformation & Sobriety | Zürich
Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland
Founder of himentoring.com in Küsnacht (Zürich), delivering 1:1 High-Impact Mentoring to entrepreneurs and leaders on fear, limiting beliefs, confidence and sobriety. Mentors leaders and teams in parallel at the digital brand agency Hansen World, after founding the Amsterdam PPC agency five-am.com and building a sales career at Samsung Electronics. Author of the Fahrrad-Weltführer, drawing on a near six-year bicycle expedition through 50+ countries lived without money or safety nets.
Professional Experience
Jan 2020 – Present
1:1 High-Impact Mentoring @ himentoring.com
himentoring.com
Founder and mentor of a High-Impact Mentoring practice guiding high achievers and leaders toward clarity, confidence and a fearless life.
- 1:1 mentoring: Guides clients to unlock their full potential and live a vibrant, healthy and fearless life
- Mindset work: Helps high achievers and leaders dissolve fears, shift limiting beliefs and build lasting confidence
- Sobriety guidance: Shares a personal path from heavy substance use to drinking water only, and mentors clients through getting sober and asking for help
- Interdisciplinary practice: Works with a team of nervous system experts, mentors, movement coaches and international business and investment professionals
- Method design: Combines physical, emotional and mental depth with practical day-to-day application rather than peak performance alone
- Content and reach: Publishes sobriety and mindset content on Instagram (@highimpactmentoring) as the entry point to the practice
Jan 2018 – Present
Mentor @ Digital Brand Agency
Hansen World :: We Create Brands
Mentors agency clients on change adaptability and leadership capability within a digital brand agency.
- Change mentoring: Guides Hansen World clients in overcoming fears related to new processes and fostering adaptability
- Leadership development: Strengthens leadership skills so professionals lead with confidence through change
- Team performance: Supports the build-up of high-performing teams alongside individual leadership growth
- Transformation focus: Applies years of mentoring and transformation experience to help individuals step into leadership with clarity, resilience and impact
- Client format: Delivers the mentoring engagement fully remote across agency client organisations
May 2015 – Nov 2020
Founder
five-am.com
Founded and led a remote-first, full-service marketing agency serving startups from Amsterdam.
- Agency founding: Built a remote-first, Amsterdam-based full-service marketing agency from the ground up
- Team leadership: Led a dedicated team of five marketing specialists
- PPC specialisation: Focused the agency on social media marketing with a strong emphasis on Pay-Per-Click campaigns
- Lead generation: Helped startup clients generate high-quality leads and accelerate growth
- Strategy mandate: Crafted data-driven strategies aimed at maximising ROI for emerging brands
- Positioning: Set up emerging client brands for long-term market success
Sep 2011 – May 2016
Traveling the world
Bike4Peace.eu
A near five-year, self-funded bicycle expedition around the world undertaken without money.
- Global expedition: Travelled to 50+ countries by bicycle after what began as a spontaneous cycling trip
- Radical simplicity: Lived for almost five years without money, insurance or safety nets
- Corporate backing: Supported by IcBerlin, Fuji, GLS Bank, GoPro, Haffmans & Neumeister and Schwalbe
- Media coverage: Backed by publishers including Know-How and Huffington Post
- Cultural immersion: Immersed in diverse cultures across continents, broadening perspective through direct experience
- Personal foundation: Used the journey to overcome fears and build the fearless, healthy outlook later applied in mentoring
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011
Manager of Sales
Samsung Electronics
Consumer electronics sales management focused on digital cameras and professional equipment.
- European ranking: Ranked among the Top 5 in Sales across Europe in Q3 2008
- Product focus: Specialised in digital cameras and professional consumer electronics equipment
- Career milestone: Achieved the Top 5 European result as one of the youngest salesmen in the history of Samsung Electronics Europe
- Market coverage: Held sales responsibility from the Berlin region across a five-year tenure
Sep 2003 – Sep 2006
Kaufmann im Einzelhandel
MediaMarkt Deutschland
Retail commercial apprenticeship and role in consumer electronics retail.
- Retail commerce: Completed the Kaufmann im Einzelhandel track in a large-format consumer electronics store
- Customer-facing sales: Advised retail customers on consumer electronics assortments in Ravensburg
- Commercial foundation: Built the retail and sales groundwork later applied in the Samsung Electronics sales role
Jan 2020 – Present
1:1 High-Impact Mentoring @ himentoring.com
Jan 2020 – Present
himentoring.com
Founder and mentor of a High-Impact Mentoring practice guiding high achievers and leaders toward clarity, confidence and a fearless life.
- 1:1 mentoring: Guides clients to unlock their full potential and live a vibrant, healthy and fearless life
- Mindset work: Helps high achievers and leaders dissolve fears, shift limiting beliefs and build lasting confidence
- Sobriety guidance: Shares a personal path from heavy substance use to drinking water only, and mentors clients through getting sober and asking for help
- Interdisciplinary practice: Works with a team of nervous system experts, mentors, movement coaches and international business and investment professionals
- Method design: Combines physical, emotional and mental depth with practical day-to-day application rather than peak performance alone
- Content and reach: Publishes sobriety and mindset content on Instagram (@highimpactmentoring) as the entry point to the practice
Jan 2018 – Present
Mentor @ Digital Brand Agency
Jan 2018 – Present
Hansen World :: We Create Brands
Mentors agency clients on change adaptability and leadership capability within a digital brand agency.
- Change mentoring: Guides Hansen World clients in overcoming fears related to new processes and fostering adaptability
- Leadership development: Strengthens leadership skills so professionals lead with confidence through change
- Team performance: Supports the build-up of high-performing teams alongside individual leadership growth
- Transformation focus: Applies years of mentoring and transformation experience to help individuals step into leadership with clarity, resilience and impact
- Client format: Delivers the mentoring engagement fully remote across agency client organisations
May 2015 – Nov 2020
Founder
May 2015 – Nov 2020
five-am.com
Founded and led a remote-first, full-service marketing agency serving startups from Amsterdam.
- Agency founding: Built a remote-first, Amsterdam-based full-service marketing agency from the ground up
- Team leadership: Led a dedicated team of five marketing specialists
- PPC specialisation: Focused the agency on social media marketing with a strong emphasis on Pay-Per-Click campaigns
- Lead generation: Helped startup clients generate high-quality leads and accelerate growth
- Strategy mandate: Crafted data-driven strategies aimed at maximising ROI for emerging brands
- Positioning: Set up emerging client brands for long-term market success
Sep 2011 – May 2016
Traveling the world
Sep 2011 – May 2016
Bike4Peace.eu
A near five-year, self-funded bicycle expedition around the world undertaken without money.
- Global expedition: Travelled to 50+ countries by bicycle after what began as a spontaneous cycling trip
- Radical simplicity: Lived for almost five years without money, insurance or safety nets
- Corporate backing: Supported by IcBerlin, Fuji, GLS Bank, GoPro, Haffmans & Neumeister and Schwalbe
- Media coverage: Backed by publishers including Know-How and Huffington Post
- Cultural immersion: Immersed in diverse cultures across continents, broadening perspective through direct experience
- Personal foundation: Used the journey to overcome fears and build the fearless, healthy outlook later applied in mentoring
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011
Manager of Sales
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011
Samsung Electronics
Consumer electronics sales management focused on digital cameras and professional equipment.
- European ranking: Ranked among the Top 5 in Sales across Europe in Q3 2008
- Product focus: Specialised in digital cameras and professional consumer electronics equipment
- Career milestone: Achieved the Top 5 European result as one of the youngest salesmen in the history of Samsung Electronics Europe
- Market coverage: Held sales responsibility from the Berlin region across a five-year tenure
Sep 2003 – Sep 2006
Kaufmann im Einzelhandel
Sep 2003 – Sep 2006
MediaMarkt Deutschland
Retail commercial apprenticeship and role in consumer electronics retail.
- Retail commerce: Completed the Kaufmann im Einzelhandel track in a large-format consumer electronics store
- Customer-facing sales: Advised retail customers on consumer electronics assortments in Ravensburg
- Commercial foundation: Built the retail and sales groundwork later applied in the Samsung Electronics sales role
Education
Kaufmann im Einzelhandel · in Retail Commerce
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006Media Markt
Germany · Dual vocational training: Commercial retail apprenticeship completed within Media Markt operations.