Nadja Kahn’s path into the events industry began during her business studies with a focus on tourism in Munich in 1995 and has since grown into a wholehearted devotion to this profession. For her, it is even more than that – it is her calling.
Over the years, she has moved across many of the event world’s stages and is happy to step into just about any “event shoe”. Whether a jewelry show with Heidi Klum or a golf tournament under the midnight sun, driving events at home or abroad, incentive or convention, small or large in budget or number of participants – with more than 1,000 events she has run herself, Nadja Kahn has a wealth of experience. Before daring to go independent in 2003 this Hamburg native gained experience at various event agencies.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for!
Nadja Kahn lives this motto to the full and leaves the safe harbor again and again with creative ideas. She knows well that a ship, especially in new waters, can only be kept on course by a team that pulls together – just as the KahnEvents team has done for many years. For the founder and managing director, her team is hull, mast and sails – in other words, the foundation of everything.
Unexpected situations at events don’t make Nadja Kahn panic – on the contrary, she “grows” precisely when plan A doesn’t work out. It doesn’t always have to be a sudden bomb disposal that forces an entire venue to be evacuated, a new one to be found within an hour and the guests to be transferred – as happened not so long ago… But even then, the event pro kept her nerve, and the guests still say the evening was a blast.
At the start of the pandemic in 2020 Nadja Kahn launched www.OnlinePartyBox.de – she realized that people would not be able to attend events for a long time, so she invented the box that is sent to people’s homes, together with the matching online event venue. Between 2020 and 2022, more than 30,000 boxes were shipped and more than 200 online or hybrid events were organized by her and her strong team.
This period also saw her first book project, “Von der Krise zum Kracher” (From Crisis to Smash Hit), published by Bourdon Verlag.
Asked about her job, Nadja Kahn likes to answer with the words her then six-year-old niece once used to describe it: “I make other people happy” – and that is truly what drives her. Again and again. She gets up every morning looking forward to inspiring people.
Nadja showed the same enthusiasm and joy in her second book project, created with her husband Christoph Theile: “Denken wir noch oder fühlen wir schon” (Are We Still Thinking or Already Feeling?) is a business novel and non-fiction book in one, published by Wiley, describing the topic of emotions with great clarity. On this topic, Nadja gives emotional and entertaining keynotes – once again bringing joy.
And when she isn’t busy “making people happy”, Nadja Kahn loves exploring new exotic destinations, near or far. Her passions are tango dancing, golf and philosophical exchange (the magazine “Hohe Luft” is a monthly must) – and sometimes she simply lets loose on her piano with film scores or whatever comes to hand.
