About Alexander Weiskopf
Early Life and Family Values
I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family where values such as openness, tolerance and charity were practiced on a daily basis. When I was 12 years old, my father received the dreadful diagnosis of cancer and was told that he would not live much longer. This also changed my life abruptly and I learned the ability to be there for others.
Overcoming Adversity
Over the next few years, my father underwent numerous treatments and kept the promise he had made to me that he would never give up. Even during this time, we shared a desire to help people and put creative ideas into practice.
My First Entrepreneurial Venture
One of them was that I should set up an online art gallery. Fascinated by the idea and with the hope of being able to partially cover the high financial costs of my father’s treatments, I embarked on this novel project and founded my first company at the age of 18. To my surprise, I quickly realized that I could actually be successful with it and managed to build up a dedicated team around me relatively quickly. I stood out above all for my original plans, as well as my ability to manage people.
Despite my professional success, it was also important for me to be an excellent student and thereby bring pride to my family.
The Corona period was both a blessing and a curse for me. My online art trade concept benefited greatly from this time, however, I also had to see how my beloved father’s health continued to decline and he was barely able to leave the house.
In the last few months of his life, he published a book about his battle with cancer to give hope to those affected.
Facts in numbers
Come back stronger
Caring for My Father and Learning Resilience
My mother and I cared for him until his death, but until the day he died I could not and did not want to realize that he would soon no longer be with me. I desperately looked for ways for him to live on, because I had also learned never to give up.
Taking on New Responsibilities
After my father’s death, I briefly fell into a hole, but quickly learned to take responsibility for my father’s numerous social clubs and take his place.
A New Chapter: Challenges and Opportunities
Shortly afterwards, the war in Ukraine began, and my girlfriend’s family, who is Ukrainian by birth, had to flee. During this time, I was given a new family, so to speak, and I realized again how much it fulfills me to help people.
Pursuing Diplomacy and Higher Education
That’s why I decided to start another Master’s program at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna as I approached the end of my Master’s degree in International Management. My goal is to further develop my skills in the field of diplomacy and thus ultimately to help shape the many developments in the world in a positive way and contribute to a better world.
With this new direction, I decided to put my very successful entrepreneurial career on hold, at least for the time being, and concentrate fully on my new goals. I was very pleased that I managed to successfully leave my company in 2022 and that I was thus able to devote my full attention to my new tasks and goals.
From 2023 onwards, I was able to further develop my capabilities through many coaching sessions with leading national and international coaches in numerous areas.
My Promise
I am not a person who does things by halves and always give 100 percent to projects that I believe in and that are important to me.
My Manifesto
Treat others the way you want to be treated
Even as a child, my parents taught me by example the golden rule of treating other people as I would like to be treated myself. I quickly realized that I could learn something from everyone and that I would therefore treat everyone with respect and without prejudice.
Especially during the exchange with artists, I discovered new perspectives and got used to listening to their thoughts, some of which were new to me, without bias. Although I didn’t always agree with them 100 percent, I learned to think outside the box and to develop myself further.
My involvement in numerous social projects and also my private strokes of fate led me to develop a certain gratitude and to try to initiate positive developments from my privileged situation.
Professional
My professional approach to different challenges sets me apart.
Determined
If I have a goal in mind, I work until I have achieved it.
Kind-hearted
However, I still remain human and pay attention to my surroundings.
