“When something has to work tomorrow, we just do what needs to be done.”
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- Louise Thisgaard Pedersen
It’s eleven at night. The build-up for an event is in full swing, and everything has to be ready before Bella Center opens its doors to guests the next morning. Months have gone into planning every detail. Drawings have been reviewed, processes aligned, and every effort has been made to ensure that things run as smoothly as possible.
And yet, as with any complex project, something unexpected can always happen. When it does, the whole house shifts into action.
Louise is on the floor with two senior directors in suits, sticking felt pads under a piece of furniture. No one questions why. In that moment, it’s not about titles or job descriptions. It’s about getting the last things right. Together.
“I’ve never been part of an event that didn’t come together in the end - someone always steps in.”
“When something has to work tomorrow, we just do what needs to be done,” Louise says: “There’s no point discussing who usually does what.”
For her, the moment captures the mindset at Bella Center in the lead‑up to events. Planning is meticulous, and a lot of effort goes into making processes solid and resilient. But when the pace picks up, time is tight, and reality demands action, everyone steps in.
This is not an exception. It’s how things work. When time is tight and the task requires it, titles, roles and hierarchies become secondary. You just get on with the job.
Louise is part of the Event Design team, where she helps shape and plan the physical framework for events at Bella Center Copenhagen – from standard layouts to complex, bespoke builds. Lounges, registration areas, cloakrooms, fire safety plans. Solutions that start as lines on a screen and must work in real life, with guests in the room. It’s a role where many disciplines intersect, and where decisions rarely have the luxury of time.
“Things move fast here. You’re constantly building on what you just learned.”
She joined Bellagroup in 2023. This is her first full‑time role after graduating, and the learning curve has been steep. She was thrown straight into the real world, supported by skilled colleagues, and given responsibility from day one.
“Things move fast here,” she says: “You’re constantly building on what you just learned.”
Experience stacks up, layer by layer – professionally and personally.
What has mattered most to her is feeling taken seriously as a professional, even early on. That trust has given her confidence in her work and a clearer sense of where her own judgement stands.
“It makes a big difference when people listen to you as a professional,” she says: “It creates a sense of calm – and the courage to take responsibility.”
When her previous manager left, the Event Design team shifted towards a more self organized way of working. Tasks were distributed within the team, decisions were made closer to the work itself, and responsibility became shared.
“You become very aware of how dependent you are on each other,” Louise says: “You have to look out for one another – and notice when someone needs help.”
In practice, that means regular check ins, clear agreements and a culture where knowledge is shared openly. People are specialists in their own fields, but curious about others – within the team and across the many functions in the venue. Problems rarely stay with one person for long.
“You become very aware of how dependent you are on each other.”
One moment stands out clearly for Louise: a late evening during the build up of a major event, when something didn’t work as planned.
“Something just wasn’t working, and we didn’t yet know why,” she says: “So we started calling around: Who can help? Who knows something about this? And then we figure it out together.”
Sometimes the solution is simple. Sometimes it requires creativity. But you always make it across the finish line on the back of the people around you.
“I’ve never been part of an event that didn’t come together in the end,” she says: “Not because everything goes according to plan – but because someone always steps in.”
And that, for Louise, is the essence of the job: making things happen – together. Helping each other when things get intense. And sometimes ending up on the floor at eleven at night, felt pads in hand.
And doing it gladly.
