Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show

Human Innovation explores leadership where decisions, responsibility, and scale intersect.

Hosted by Jens Heitland, CEO of Heitland Media Group and former Global Head of Innovation at IKEA Centres, the show features long-form conversations with CEOs and senior leaders from international organizations.

Each episode focuses on how leaders think, decide, and navigate complexity, not just what they have built. The conversations move beyond surface level success stories to examine judgment, trade offs, and the human realities of leadership at scale.

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Jens Heitland 4/11/23 Jens Heitland 4/11/23

EP 218: Incubate public value with Alexander Hertel

Alexander Hertel is the CEO and Founder of Public Value Hub an NGO that is focused on creating social impact through entrepreneurship. Over his career Alex worked as reporter in different media companies such as MDR and ARD in Germany and as well abroad in Central Eastern Europe.

In our conversation Alex shares the story how he got to build the Public Value Hub we talk about RestartUA a program that helps displaced people from the Ukraine to start a social business in Germany and how this fits into the Public Value Incubator

Jens Heitland 12/9/21 Jens Heitland 12/9/21

EP 127: Sustainable innovation

Sustainable innovation

How to build an innovation program to accelerate sustainable change.

Mladen Panov Innovation coach empowers organisations in the sustainability sector to innovate by using the Impact Kickbox Program that brings startup and innovation mindset into the heart of the organisation.

Jens Heitland 8/14/21 Jens Heitland 8/14/21

EP 71: Africa's innovation leap

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with Ibrahim Bashir , Founder and CEO at Dillali an Income and expenditure management for African SMEs. We explore the startup ecosystem in Africa his perspective on the history and future of innovation on the continent and how we all can learn from each other.

Jens Heitland 7/21/21 Jens Heitland 7/21/21

Ep 45: Corporate Innovation through Acceleration Programs

Connecting the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Zamir Shukhov.

Zamir is a Serial entrepreneur, an expert in management, acceleration, corporate innovation, and marketing he is the CEO & partner of the company Global Venture Alliance.