Jasmin Wölke moderates corporate events in Bochum, in German and English: town halls, annual kick-offs, staff assemblies and internal conferences. After more than ten corporate years at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen, she knows how messages reach every department.
A workforce that rarely stands in the same room
Many Bochum companies work spread out. In the housing business, technicians are on the road in the neighbourhoods while head office sits at desks. In the energy business, the team is distributed across stations all over the country. In IT security, analysts work in shifts while sales and administration keep office hours. A town hall or an annual kick-off is often the only date where everyone comes together. Which is exactly why it must not feel like an announcement over a loudspeaker. From the briefing, Jasmin builds a running order in which field and head office get the microphone equally often: short interviews instead of long speeches, questions from the room with clear rules, transitions that keep the thread.
Rooms and occasions in the city
The annual kick-off fills the RuhrCongress, the town hall takes place in the company's own hall or staff restaurant, the summer party in the Jahrhunderthalle or the Zeche. Each of these rooms demands its own tone: in a congress hall the stage carries, in a work hall closeness and pace carry. Jasmin knows both situations. At the Digital Transformation Conference, a corporate reference with more than 600 participants, she held a dense programme together without losing the room. The same care applies to 80 people in a staff restaurant.
Direct, warm, no pathos
The Ruhr area has a fine ear for staged enthusiasm. A moderation that works here is direct and warm at the same time: it calls things by their name, lets people finish their sentences and turns awards into stories instead of agenda items. When international colleagues join remotely or sit in the room, Jasmin switches between German and English in a guided way. Whether an assembly with difficult topics needs external moderation is covered in the article moderating staff assemblies.
Request your event moderation in Bochum
Describe the occasion, the audience and the setting through the contact form. After the briefing you receive an offer with a fixed price; for morning slots Jasmin travels the day before. The hub page event moderator has more on the format, and the Bochum city page collects all pages for the city.