Nadia Jae

Why organisations work with Nadia Jae

• She hosts a daily national breakfast show on BBC 1Xtra and won a Gold ARIA for it in 2023, so the live-microphone craft is tested every morning in front of a UK audience, not assembled for the occasion.
• She is one of the small group of UK presenters who moves fluently between the BAFTA TV Awards, the MOBO Awards, Disney and Marvel red carpets and corporate stages, which matters when an event sits between entertainment and business.
• Her interview reel includes Stormzy, John Legend, Usher, Daniel Kaluuya and Little Simz. Senior on-stage guests are handled without the script becoming the safety net.
• Raise Your Voice, her 2022 book with DK and the BBC, gives her a credible secondary offer on confidence, communication and self-presentation for younger workforces and early-career audiences.
• She brings cultural reach into rooms that often lack it: a DJ background at the BRITs, Lovebox, indigO2 and Fabric, and a brand history with ASOS, Adidas, John Lewis, Netflix and Beats By Dre.

Biography highlights

• Host, BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show, since December 2020.
• Gold ARIA, Best Music Breakfast Show, 2023.
• Author, Raise Your Voice: Make Yourself Heard in a Noisy World (DK, 2022), produced in partnership with the BBC.
• Presenting credits across the BAFTA TV Awards, MOBO Awards, Wireless Festival, Disney and Marvel events.
• DJ sets at the BRIT Awards, Lovebox, indigO2 and Fabric.
• Brand and commercial work with ASOS, Adidas, John Lewis, Netflix and Beats By Dre.

Biography

The BBC 1Xtra Breakfast Show is one of the most exposed live slots in UK radio: a daily national programme, a young audience, a music-industry guest list and no second takes. Nadia Jae has held it since December 2020 and won a Gold ARIA for it in 2023.

Outside the studio, she has built a parallel career as a live events host. She has presented on stage and on red carpets for the BAFTA TV Awards, the MOBO Awards, Wireless Festival, Disney and Marvel, with a DJ track record at the BRITs, Lovebox, indigO2 and Fabric. The blend matters for corporate clients: she can hold an awards night, a brand launch or an internal conference without the cultural register feeling forced.

Raise Your Voice, published by DK with the BBC in 2022 as part of the corporation’s centenary Share Your Story programme, sits alongside the broadcast work. The book is a practical guide to confidence, self-presentation and storytelling for young audiences, with contributions from George the Poet, Ade Adepitan and Nancy Kacungira. It gives her a credible secondary keynote on voice and communication for early-career and Gen Z workforce audiences.

Her interview history on 1Xtra, from Stormzy and Little Simz to John Legend, Usher and Daniel Kaluuya, is the clearest signal of the on-stage craft: senior names, live mics, no second pass.

Key speaking topics

• Awards and event hosting
• Conference and keynote moderation
• Brand activation and launch hosting
• Panel facilitation and on-stage interviews
• Voice, confidence and communication for young audiences
• Storytelling and personal narrative
• Media and broadcast presence
• Culture, music and youth audiences

Ideal for

• Internal awards nights, recognition events and end-of-year conferences that need a confident MC.
• Brand launches, product reveals and consumer-facing activations aimed at younger audiences.
• Panel sessions and on-stage interviews where the host needs to interview senior or high-profile guests live.
• Early-career, apprentice and Gen Z workforce sessions on voice, confidence and self-presentation.

Audience outcomes

• A clearly structured event with consistent pace, set pieces landed and senior contributors handled with confidence.
• On-stage interviews and panels that move rather than stall.
• A cultural register that resonates with younger and more diverse audiences without feeling tokenistic.
• For Raise Your Voice sessions: a practical sense of how to speak up, present a clear personal narrative and use voice deliberately at work.