Founder
Ondrej Tyrpak
A Slovak-born entrepreneur and leader living in the Netherlands, working on the role of trust in human life and professional relationships.
Where the story begins
Ondrej grew up in Slovakia, in a culture where a person's word carried weight and where reliability was something you demonstrated rather than announced. Leaving to build a life in another country meant starting again without a reputation — being unknown, and depending on people who had no particular reason to believe in him.
Those early years shaped the question that stayed with him: what makes one person decide to trust another, and what does it mean to be worthy of that decision?
International working life
His working life has crossed hospitality, property management and construction, and several countries. Each of those environments depends on trust in a different way: guests trusting a place, owners trusting someone with their property, clients trusting people who work with their homes and their money.
Leading teams in those settings taught him that trust is rarely lost in one dramatic moment. It usually erodes through small unkept promises, unclear expectations and silence at the wrong time.
From leadership communities to a wider mission
Before founding Trusting World, Ondrej created and led several leadership and entrepreneurial communities, including Club of Leaders, Club of Entrepreneurs and Trusted Leaders.
Through mentoring, workshops, events and partnerships, these initiatives brought together people interested in responsible leadership, personal development and stronger communities. They gave Ondrej an opportunity to observe how trust influences participation, collaboration and people’s willingness to contribute.
Trusted Leaders became the clearest expression of this work: an attempt to bring integrity, responsibility and human connection into conversations about leadership.
Trusting World developed from this longer journey. It brings the lessons of leadership, entrepreneurship, hospitality, property management and construction into one wider mission—to contribute to a world in which 100 million people feel more trusted, valued and recognised.
Work that shaped the mission
Trusting World did not begin as a theoretical project. It grew from more than two decades of leading people, managing businesses and working across hospitality, property management, construction and community initiatives.
AlphaOmega Constructors
Ondrej currently leads AlphaOmega Constructors, a renovation company based in the Netherlands. Coordinating clients, projects and professionals from different backgrounds has made trust a practical daily responsibility—not simply a leadership principle. Clear expectations, honest communication, accountability and the willingness to address problems are essential to every working relationship.
Trusted Leaders
He also founded Trusted Leaders, an international leadership community created to connect people interested in responsible leadership, collaboration and service. The experience deepened his interest in how leaders create credibility, belonging and opportunities for others to contribute.
BuildTrusted
BuildTrusted became the first practical initiative connected to the wider Trusting World mission. It applies trust, transparency and accountability to relationships between clients and construction professionals.
Together, these experiences continue to shape Trusting World’s exploration of how trust can be built, protected and restored.
The value and fragility of trust
He has experienced both sides. He has been trusted with responsibility beyond what his experience justified, and grown into it because someone chose to believe he would. He has also been let down in ways that were costly, personally and professionally.
Those experiences are not told here as accusations. The people involved are not named, and this work is not about them. What matters is what those years revealed: how much depends on trust, and how easily it can be undone by ordinary carelessness.
Why trust, and why now
Ondrej chose to work on trust because it is the thread running through everything he has done, and because he sees how many people quietly go through their days feeling doubted, unseen or reduced to their output. Changing that does not require new technology. It requires people willing to behave differently, consistently.
Trusting World is his attempt to contribute to that — through a forthcoming book, through reflections, and through practical initiatives such as BuildTrusted. It is intended as service rather than status. The measure of it will be whether other people feel more trusted, valued and recognised, not whether the work is well known.