Humorist, keynote speaker, author
based in Copenhagen, Denmark
Book Kay for coaching or a workshop
Kay Xander Mellish is a popular speaker who has appeared all over Denmark to welcome newcomers and explain the unwritten rules of Danish working culture. Kay also tailors speeches and offers coaching for companies with specific challenges, such as how to work better with American colleagues, customers or suppliers. And her Drop Dit Danglish presentation is a hit with companies and students who want to speak smooth, professional English.
Get Kay’s books or audiobooks
“How to Live in Denmark”, Kay Xander Mellish’s first book based on her long-running podcast, is a contemporary classic sold at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. The follow-up “How to Work in Denmark” has been purchased in bulk by Danish companies for newly-arrived international employees. Kay is also the author of “Working with Americans: Tips for Danes” “Working with Danes: Tips for Americans” and the entertaining little book “Top 35 Mistakes Danes Make in English.”
Moving to the USA?
Are you and your family relocating to the USA on a short or long-term basis? Book a coaching session with Kay, the author of “Working with Americans: Tips for Danes”, to find out how to make the most of your new life. How will you make friends, choose schools for your kids, find food that isn’t full of sugar? What should you bring along, and what should you leave at home? Kay can help you avoid culture shock. Here are a few fun tips.
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Kay’s voiceover work
Kay’s voiceover career started when Danske Bank – where she was on staff at the time – asked her to voice some internal corporate videos. The sound engineeer noticed that she had a good voice for corporate work.
Since then Kay has voiced hundreds of corporates, advertisements, podcasts, movie trailers, and e-learning modules for both local and international clients.
She is known for her “no drama” approach and her ability to deliver most projects with just a few takes.
You can book Kay for your voiceover directly or via Lydbror or Stemmer.dk in Copenhagen or Multimediestudiet in Hillerød, Denmark.
Want to hear Kay’s voice samples? You can download them or hear them on Soundcloud.
The “How to Live in Denmark” project
When Kay first moved to Copenhagen, she wrote a few blog posts about her experiences – and then forgot about them, as she focused on her corporate work and building a family.
But to her surprise, she would regularly receive notes from newcomers to Denmark who had discovered the blogs online and found them helpful.
Later, Kay turned some of the blog posts into a podcast, originally designed to promote her voiceover business. The How to Live in Denmark podcast took off and has run continuously since 2013, with more than a million downloads.
Meanwhile, the How to Live in Denmark website became the basis for the How to Live in Denmark book, first published in 2014 and updated in 2017. Kay now travels all over the country with her How to Live in Denmark welcome presentation for newcomers.
Who is Kay Xander Mellish?
Kay is a writer, keynote speaker, and voice artist who grew up in the USA and has lived in Denmark for more than 10 years. She has been on staff at large Danish companies including Danske Bank and Carlsberg and now runs KXMGroup, which provides writing, editing, and voiceover services in Copenhagen.
A native of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Kay attended New York University in Manhattan, where she graduated cum laude with a degree in journalism and art history.
She worked as a journalist in Berlin, Germany and Hong Kong before returning to Manhattan and working in the media industry at Dow Jones/the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and ABCnews.com before moving to Denmark.
Kay lives with her family in Copenhagen Northwest. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, weightlifting, and watching old Hollywood movies.
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