about us

Welcome to QANNIK Projects – Advisory

 

QANNIK is a bespoke advisory firm working with private owners, family offices, founders, governments and institutions across regenerative land and estate development, luxury and experience-led businesses. We partner at pivotal moments, namely during growth, repositioning, succession and transformation,  bringing strategic clarity, a proprietary Social Return on Investment methodology, and genuine long-term commitment to every engagement.

 

Our approach is grounded in decades of leadership within luxury hospitality and estate environments — a discipline that taught us how culture, identity and human experience quietly determine whether organisations, and the land they steward, endure. We bring this thinking, and a published methodology for evidencing it, to sovereign, institutional and family-led initiatives across the globe. It is a lens, not a limitation.

services

“QANNIK does not offer standardised packages. Every engagement is shaped around what the client actually needs — and delivered with the full weight of three decades of experience in luxury hospitality and advisory.”

Regenerative Estate & Development
Land and estate strategy from feasibility through to concept: regenerative development, retreat projects, stewardship models that let land and commercial return coexist.

Senior Executive Mentoring
1:1 advisory for senior leaders preparing for their next level of responsibility. Honest perspective from three decades of doing it, not just observing it.

Strategic Project Mandates
Leading complex mandates across luxury hospitality, real assets and experience-led businesses — from concept through to delivery. Active in UAE, UK, KSA, DACH & EU

Hospitality as a Discipline
Luxury hospitality remains the native language and the lens through which every engagement is shaped — how culture, identity and human experience quietly determine whether organisations endure.

 

projects

QANNIK has delivered across Europe, the Middle East, UK and Africa — working alongside founders, private owners, family offices and boards at pivotal moments.

Hospitality is the native discipline.
It is the lens, not the limit.

From luxury hotel openings and estate repositioning to organizational transformation and succession planning, every project shares a single standard:

strategic clarity, operational conviction and genuine commitment to outcomes that endure.

collaborators

QANNIK works with a deliberately small group of trusted collaborators — specialists brought in precisely when and where their expertise serves the client.

Independence is the point. It gives us the freedom to assemble the right team for each engagement rather than a fixed one.

With three decades of international experience across luxury hospitality, real assets and experience-led businesses, Anne founded QANNIK as a deliberately boutique advisory practice.

She brings senior professionals together around clients who demand both strategic vision and operational conviction.

Anne Schaeflein

Founder & Strategic Advisor

QANNIK Projects

James McDonald

Photographer & Owner

JMPhotography

Lauren Resnick

Arts & Culture Advisor

Co-Founder Pinofex

 Ghalib Mamdani 

Real Estate

Development Advisor

Barbara Lindermann

AssetManager & Coach

MP of BoldBrains GmbH

Steven Hetzer

Director

Experiential Agency

Sweetwater MEA

Margarita Kaske

Architect & Co-Founder

OctoOcto Architects

Corina Goetz

Gulf Strategist & Advisor

Star-Cat

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QANNIK Projects – Advisory

Europe, MENA, UK