Matthew Racz is the founder of Unified Leaders—a leadership evolution firm guiding founders and CEOs of high-growth companies through inner transformation to unlock sustainable external scale. With a background in scaling startups to $15M+ in monthly revenue and a deep foundation in executive coaching, he helps leaders regulate their nervous systems, deepen self-mastery, and build conscious teams. His mission is to create a new standard of leadership rooted in integrity, presence, and human flourishing—so businesses thrive from the inside out.
Could you elaborate on the nature of your business, highlighting its purpose and the ways it benefits people?
At Unified Leaders, we believe every founder is on a universal journey—from early momentum to scaling friction, from external success to internal reckoning. Our work is designed to guide founders, CEOs, and leadership teams through the pivotal moments where personal evolution becomes essential for business evolution.
We help leaders break free from the old world of stress, burnout, reactivity, and survival-mode leadership—the patterns that quietly sabotage growth. Through 1:1 coaching, leadership team advisory, and proprietary frameworks, we support leaders in building the internal strength, nervous system regulation, and conscious self-mastery required to lead in the new world—where clarity, resilience, and mission-driven scale are possible.
Our purpose is simple: to help leaders evolve themselves so they can evolve their companies—and ultimately, to elevate the future of leadership itself.
What inspired you to start your journey as a coach and entrepreneur? Were there any specific events, challenges, or people that motivated you to take this path?
My journey into coaching and leadership advisory was born directly from experience. As a co-founder and executive helping scale a company from 5 to over 250 team members and $15M per month in revenue, I witnessed firsthand how much the inner state of the founder shapes the fate of the business.
Despite external success, I struggled internally—battling stress, disconnection, and burnout. It became clear that without evolving my inner leadership, no amount of external growth would create true fulfillment or sustainable impact. That realization set me on a deeper path: studying human development, nervous system regulation, conscious leadership, and business operating systems.
The mentors who most influenced me weren’t just great strategists—they were deeply integrated human beings. Their example, combined with my own hard-won lessons, inspired Unified Leaders: a new model for leadership that helps founders evolve themselves as they scale their companies, creating organizations—and lives—rooted in wholeness.
Looking back at the beginning of your career, what were the major challenges you faced when establishing yourself as a leader/coach? How did you overcome those obstacles?
One of the biggest challenges early in my journey was reconciling two worlds: the fast-paced, high-pressure demands of scaling companies—and the deeper, slower inner work required to become a truly effective leader. In the beginning, I believed that success was purely about drive, strategy, and execution. But no matter how hard I worked, there was an invisible ceiling: my own unaddressed patterns of stress, fear, and reactivity.
Another challenge was overcoming imposter syndrome. Shifting from being a founder/operator to becoming a guide for other leaders demanded a deeper level of self-trust and integration. I had to believe in the value of my lived experience—and recognize that my past struggles were not liabilities, but keys to serving others at a higher level.
I overcame these obstacles by doing the deep personal work first: investing in coaching, mentorship, nervous system healing, and conscious leadership training. Over time, the results spoke for themselves. Today, Unified Leaders exists because of those early challenges—and because I refused to separate personal evolution from professional success.
Would you like to share any remarkable achievement?
One of the achievements I’m most proud of is helping scale a company from a five-person startup to over 250 team members worldwide and $15M per month in revenue—without outside venture funding. But even more meaningful to me is that experience revealing a deeper truth: external success means little without internal alignment.
Today, the greatest achievement is seeing the tangible impact of Unified Leaders—founders breaking free from survival mode, reconnecting to their deeper mission, and leading their companies with greater clarity, resilience, and purpose. Watching a leader evolve not just as a CEO, but as a human being—that’s the real win.
Women are a growing force in the workplaces worldwide, standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts. What are your thoughts about women leadership today?
I believe the rise of women in leadership is one of the most important and hopeful shifts happening in the world today. True leadership requires emotional intelligence, resilience, intuition, courage, and the ability to build environments where others thrive—qualities that women often bring forward in profound ways.
The future belongs to integrated leadership: leadership that harmonizes strength with compassion, strategy with empathy, and vision with collaboration. Women are not just matching traditional leadership standards—they are redefining them, expanding what’s possible. At Unified Leaders, we believe the most successful companies of the future will be those led by men and women who embody the full spectrum of human leadership, united by purpose and guided by wisdom.
What message/advice would you have for future women leaders and aspiring entrepreneurs?
My message to future women leaders and entrepreneurs is this: you are not here to fit into old models—you are here to create new ones. Trust that your intuition, your empathy, your strength, and your vision are not weaknesses—they are superpowers.
The world doesn’t just need more leaders; it needs more integrated leaders—those who can blend wisdom with courage, compassion with conviction. Stay rooted in your values, invest in your own evolution as much as your external success, and never underestimate the ripple effect of your leadership. When you rise, you lift countless others with you.
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www.unifiedleaders.com
