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“Growth ignites where clarity meets courage.”
This is not “who I am”.
This is why I exist, how I think, and how I operate.
Growth fails not because of ideas, but because systems, people, and leadership fall out of rhythm.
I move between worlds:
engineering, strategy, creativity, leadership, and movement.
Founder & CEO of DAY ONE | Growth Igniters
Creator of the Growth Igniter Methodology
Co-Founder & Educator at Growth Spark Academy
Co-Founder of Cherry Blossom Events Productions
Co-Founder of AI Business Hub
Co-Founder of KooBuddy AI app
Co-Founder of TANGart
Co-Founder of 4Rizoma
Founder of Growth X
Trusted advisor to leaders and organizations seeking clarity and momentum.
The Three Identities
My journey moves through three worlds:
The Engineer
Systems before slogans. Structure before noise.
A graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), trained to see what most don’t:
the systems, patterns, and structural forces underneath complexity.
Engineering taught me answers and how things actually work.
Where energy flows, where friction hides, and why most strategies fail not from lack of ambition, but from poor architecture.
This is where my obsession with clarity, precision, and momentum was born.
The Strategist &
The Creative Mind
Growth is not luck.
It’s engineered.
20+ years in marketing, brand-building, management and growth architecture.
Campaigns executed across 32 international markets.
Multiple Effie and Ermis Awards, effectiveness and creativity.
I’ve worked inside telecom warzones, with global brands, and alongside scaling SMEs where every decision mattered and every mistake was expensive.
What that taught me is simple:
growth is never about tactics in isolation.
It’s about alignment, focus, and disciplined execution under pressure.
That’s where strategy stops being theory, and becomes leverage.
The Leadership Signal
Leadership is not control. It’s connection.
20 years of Argentine tango not as a hobby, but as a discipline.
A daily practice of presence, emotional intelligence, listening, rhythm, and trust.
Tango teaches something business often forgets:
movement doesn’t start with force.
It starts with clear intention and human connection.
This is the foundation of my leadership philosophy:
clarity creates confidence,
presence creates trust,
and momentum emerges when people feel the direction, not just hear it.
Why I Built My Own Method
For years, I kept seeing the same pattern repeat, across industries, markets, and company sizes.
Brilliant strategies approved.
Talented teams aligned on paper.
Decks polished. Frameworks sound. Budgets justified.
And yet… nothing moved.
Execution stalled. Decisions slowed. Teams hesitated.
Leaders became overloaded coordinators instead of directional forces.
Culture drifted quietly. Momentum evaporated without a visible failure.
The problem wasn’t intelligence.
It wasn’t ambition.
It wasn’t even strategy.
It was friction.
Invisible friction between clarity and action.
Between leadership intent and team movement.
Between knowing what to do and being able to do it consistently.
Traditional strategy didn’t address that gap.
Motivation didn’t solve it.
More tools made it worse.
So I stopped asking how to design better strategies
and started asking a different question:
What actually creates momentum inside real organizations?
That question led me to engineer a system — not a framework, not a mindset, not a campaign —
but a repeatable way to turn clarity into movement, and movement into sustainable growth.
That gap is where The Growth Igniter Methodology™ was born.
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