About Matthias Linke

Matthias Linke (Hamburg, Germany) is an organisation development specialist, author and founder of WorldX GmbH. He runs the Diversity Fresco and the Sexism Fresco as an officially licensed facilitator and helps organisations build diversity management without new staff costs.

Name
Matthias Linke
Role
Facilitator for Diversity Fresco and Sexism Fresco, organisation development specialist and author
Company
Founder and managing director of WorldX GmbH, Hamburg
Voluntary role
Chair of the board and founding member of WorldX e.V., a non-profit association in Hamburg
Topics
Diversity and inclusion, sexism at work, diversity management, organisational development, AI and knowledge transfer
Book
‘Homo Obsoletus’ (2026, in German), ISBN 978-3695619221
Works
on site across Germany or online, in German and English
Author contact
Books and author enquiries: books@worldx.com
Contact
hello@worldx.com, +49 40 808 133 730
Matthias Linke leaning against a wall, with evening light in the background
Matthias Linke Facilitator for Diversity Fresco and Sexism Fresco, organisation development specialist and author

Why I do this

What is written on the cards in my workshops, I have experienced myself. After I came out, I was thrown out.

In my circle of friends, which includes many women and also non-binary people, I find exactly the things that lie on the table in the Fresco. I am a point of contact for women who have experienced sexual assault, and I help them to face such situations and, as far as possible, to be free of them altogether.

And I have a daughter. I do not want her to grow up in a patriarchal society.

My path

I have lived through each of these upheavals myself.

At 18 I came out. Three days later I no longer had a home. What followed was Hartz IV (German basic income support), a flat without electricity and over 100 job applications, almost all of them rejected. At some point I decided that this was not going to be the end of me.

Today I hold four university degrees, all without the Abitur (the German school-leaving certificate for university entry), and I held Prokura (commercial power of attorney) at three companies. As a project manager at an international aviation group, I save €15–33 million a year through a process optimisation. I am a managing director, an author and a father.

WorldX grew out of this story. I know what turning points feel like, the forced ones and the chosen ones, and what it takes to get through them.

4 degrees
University degrees, all without the Abitur
150+
employees led
€15–33m
saved per year through process optimisation in the aviation industry
Since 2012
Leadership responsibility · Prokura at three companies

Qualifications

I can document every line here.

Licences and certifications

  • Diversity Fresco facilitatorESSEC Business School, officially licensed to run the workshop.
  • Sexism Fresco facilitatorLa Fresque du sexisme, officially licensed to run the workshop.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP®)Project management certification awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow BeltTechnical University of Munich, a method for improving processes and quality.
  • Ausbildereignung (AEVO)Qualification to train apprentices, examined by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK).

Studies, all without the Abitur

  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) Wirtschaftsrecht (business law)Universität des Saarlandes
  • Master of Arts (M.A.) Organisationsentwicklung (organisational development)TU Kaiserslautern, with a large, self-contained focus on building diversity management
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Business AdministrationFachhochschule Südwestfalen
  • Diplom-Betriebswirt (WA) (business administration diploma)Wirtschaftsakademie / IHK Potsdam

And the practical experience

  • Project manager in the aviation industry
  • Managing director of WorldX GmbH
  • Author of ‘Homo Obsoletus’ (2026)
  • Leadership responsibility since 2012

In conversation at SAATKORN

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Homo Obsoletus: KI und menschliche Arbeit mit MATTHIAS LINKE - SAATKORN

Conversation with Gero Hesse, published on . Clicking loads the video from YouTube (enhanced privacy mode).

To listen or read: saatkorn.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts.

Profiles and records

Where to find me outside this website.

Mentions

Where others have reported on my work.

  • SAATKORN. Conversation with Gero Hesse about ‘Homo Obsoletus’ (in German): article on saatkorn.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
  • IT-Zoom9 October 2013. Article ‘Ortung optimiert’ (in German). I am quoted there as commercial manager of DDS Express Logistik GmbH in Hamburg. View source
  • Google2013. Case study on the use of Google Maps Coordinate at DDS EXPRESS Logistik (PDF). View source
  • Lavid SoftwareCustomer statement as Prokurist (holder of commercial power of attorney) of DDS EXPRESS Logistik GmbH (in German). View source

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