Matthias Schmitt

Why organisations work with Matthias Schmitt

• He has scaled and exited the companies his audience is still inside. wealthpilot reached over 100,000 European customers under his co-founding, and Skigaudi became Germany’s leading student winter festival brand.
• His Expansion State Method is a named, proprietary coaching framework, not a borrowed model. It is designed specifically for founders navigating the gap between commercial success and personal meaning.
• He addresses burnout from inside the experience, having walked out of his own companies after hitting it. The credibility with senior operators is earned, not theoretical.
• He works in the territory most leadership programmes avoid: nervous system regulation, identity after exit, and the practical mechanics of sustaining decision quality under sustained pressure.
• Entrepreneur Asia Pacific named him to its Top Five Life Coaches to Watch in 2024, which gives the work external editorial validation in a category usually short of it.

Biography highlights

• Co-founder of wealthpilot, a Munich-based FinTech SaaS serving over 100,000 European customers
• Co-founder of Skigaudi, Germany’s leading winter festival brand for students
• Founder of the Expansion State Method, a proprietary coaching framework for post-exit founders
• Named to Entrepreneur Asia Pacific’s Top Five Life Coaches to Watch in 2024
• Trained in NLP, behavioural science, nervous system regulation, and meditation as applied to executive performance
• Works publicly under the title “Chief Fulfillment Officer,” focused on post-exit founders and conscious leaders

Biography

The exit is supposed to be the win. For many founders, it is also the moment the architecture they built their identity on disappears. The high-performance habits that scaled the company keep firing into an empty room.

Matthias Schmitt co-founded wealthpilot, a Munich FinTech that scaled past 100,000 European customers, and Skigaudi, the leading German winter festival brand for students. He exited and hit burnout. The recovery became the work.

Today he coaches post-exit entrepreneurs and senior leaders through that transition, using a proprietary framework he calls the Expansion State Method. The practical content draws on NLP, behavioural science, nervous system regulation, and meditation, applied to the specific problem of how senior operators sustain decision quality and meaning after the pressure that organised their lives lifts.

Entrepreneur Asia Pacific named him to its Top Five Life Coaches to Watch in 2024. The recognition matters because the category he works in, founder coaching, is crowded with generalists. The differentiator here is operational time served at the level his clients are leaving.

Key speaking topics

• Burnout recovery for founders and senior operators
• Post-exit identity and purpose
• Peak performance without collapse
• Nervous system regulation for high-pressure leadership
• Sales leadership and revenue performance
• Purpose-led business building

Ideal for

• Founder communities, scale-up CEO peer groups, and post-exit networks
• Sales leadership offsites where revenue performance and team wellbeing are both on the table
• Private wealth and family office audiences working with HNW and UHNW founders
• Executive development programmes addressing sustained performance and burnout risk at senior levels

Audience outcomes

• A clearer read on where current performance habits are producing diminishing returns
• Specific practices for nervous system regulation under sustained executive pressure
• A language for the post-exit transition that senior operators rarely have available
• Permission to treat fulfilment as a performance variable, not a soft topic