Jasmin Wölke moderates company anniversaries: the ceremony with guests, the employee honours, the evening celebration. In English and German, with a feel for pride in what was achieved and for the look ahead.
An anniversary is two events in one
Whether 25, 50 or 100 years: a company anniversary gathers people who otherwise never share a room. Employees of every generation, customers and partners, often representatives from politics and associations, and in family businesses the founding family. The day usually has two parts: a formal ceremony with speeches, and a celebration where people let go. The moderation has to carry both registers. Dignity and reliability in the afternoon, warmth and pace in the evening, without letting the party drift into noise.
Telling the story without reading out the chronicle
The biggest trap of any anniversary is the company chronicle read from a lectern. Jasmin turns history into conversations: short interviews with people from the early days, with the founding family, or with those who lived through a crisis and came out stronger. She doses the milestones instead of ticking off every year. What emerges is an arc from yesterday to tomorrow, and guests hear stories rather than dates. Whatever points to the future, a new site, a new generation at the top, deliberately gets the final slot in the programme.
Honours and greetings with the right rhythm
Anniversaries often include honours for long-serving employees. Jasmin prepares them like a small awards ceremony: names with correct pronunciation, one line about each person, a rhythm that stays fresh even with many honourees. How that works in detail is described in the awards ceremony guide. Greetings from politics and associations she schedules so they enrich the programme instead of clogging it. And she absorbs what always happens on such a day: delays, spontaneous speeches, moving moments.
From family business to global corporation
From more than ten years at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen, Jasmin knows large companies from the inside; as a moderator she equally accompanies family businesses and mid-sized firms. With an international workforce she moderates bilingually, so everyone can follow the day. The anniversary is a special case of the corporate event: the basics of working together are on the corporate event moderation page, and for the festive evening see gala moderation.