Matthias Strolz returned to business as portfolio entrepreneur in November 2018, after handing over as Founding Chairman of NEOS, a value-based centre movement that he co-founded in 2012 and led into the Austrian Parliament in 2013. From October 2013 to September 2018 Matthias Strolz was Parliamentary Leader of his group. Living in Vienna and father to three daughters he was founder and managing partner to companies in the field of systemic facilitation for twelve years before fully switching to politics. As “gardener of life” he has been engaged in value-based capacity building since early youth. His work is promoting integral and solution-oriented approaches involving methods of systemic co-creation, crowdsourcing and open innovation. Since 2019 he also acts as co-founder for story.one, a story platform building “the library of life”.