Jasmin Wölke hosts events in Mannheim in English, in German or in a guided mix of both languages. Her English comes from more than ten years of international corporate business, not from a language course, and it carries from the town hall on the shop floor to the conference in the Rosengarten.
English is already the working language here
Mannheim is wired into international corporations: Roche reports to a Swiss parent, John Deere to the United States, Daimler Truck ships engines worldwide, and the region's mid sized companies serve customers on several continents. In the leadership circles and project teams of these companies, daily business often runs in English, while many colleagues in production and administration would rather follow a programme in German. The moment a town hall, an anniversary or a conference comes up, this mix becomes a stage question. Ignore it and you lose part of the room: sometimes the international hires, sometimes the long serving local workforce.
One script instead of two programmes
Jasmin settles the language question before the event, not on stage. In the briefing she clarifies who in the room needs which language, which language slides and videos use, and where emotion matters more than information. The result is a fixed script: programme blocks in English with key messages secured briefly in German, or the other way round, without doubling the runtime. She explains the rule to the audience in the first minute, which gives even those who only half understand the other language the confidence to stay engaged. During award and anniversary moments she makes sure the personal story is told in the language of the person being honoured.
Tested in front of 40 nations
This way of working passed its stress test inside the corporate world: at the Bosch Global Sales Summit, a corporate reference, Jasmin guided three days of programme with more than 500 participants from 40 countries. The lesson travels well to any Mannheim hall: calm, clear English without idioms beats perfect pronunciation, and technical terms are clarified from your material before the event rather than improvised on stage.
Booking from Mannheim and the region
From Ludwigsburg, Jasmin reaches the city in about an hour via the A6 or by ICE, so an in person briefing at your site is easy. Send date, format and the planned share of each language through the contact form. How the guided language switch works is explained in bilingual moderation, the format itself on English speaking moderator, and all city engagements on moderator in Mannheim.