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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EP 159: How to generate business impact? - HIQA live with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to generate business impact?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

Definition of impact!

How to change a business model?

How to generate quick success to convince my manager?

You always talk about leadership and empowerment. What about the business?

How to get started with innovation?

How to measure success in innovation?

Is innovation important for business success?

Jens Heitland 3/31/22 Jens Heitland 3/31/22

EP 157: How to transform a business - HIQA live with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is How to transform a business

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

What can I do as a manager to manage change?

How can Innovation help businesses to transform?

How to secure a Business transformation long term?

Why should our business transform when everything is well?

How can I support transformations as an employee?

When should a business transform?

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EP 135: Change That Workz - Ask Agger on how to work with change that matters, gamification, change leadership and more.

Ask Agger CEO of Workz, a Danish change agency specialized in organizational culture, serious games, radical innovation, and experience design.

Jens Heitland 11/8/21 Jens Heitland 11/8/21

EP 120: Result generating innovation

How to innovate through a powerful structured and result oriented innovation method? Rex Bierlaagh, entrepreneur in (social) innovation management joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

Jens Heitland 10/29/21 Jens Heitland 10/29/21

EP 118: Innovate your model

How the travel industry has to change their business model. Elena Rodríguez Blanco, Impact Investor, Travel Futurist,Speaker, Intl' Bestseller Author and Social Entrepreneur joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

Jens Heitland 10/26/21 Jens Heitland 10/26/21

EP 116: Leading transformations

How to build human capabilities that change organizations for good. Michael Leckie Consultant & Advisor for Change and Transformation and Author joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

Jens Heitland 9/20/21 Jens Heitland 9/20/21

EP 103: Systems innovation

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Jennifer Wilde and Dan McClure, founders of the company Innovation Ecosystem. Together we explore their story, systems innovation and how they use it to solve big problems in the world and more.

Jens Heitland 7/23/21 Jens Heitland 7/23/21

Ep 47: How do we deal with change

Today's topic changes and how we deal with change as individuals, leaders, and organizations.

Jens Heitland 7/19/21 Jens Heitland 7/19/21

Ep 42: Special Edition - Mentorship

This is a special edition of the Jens Heitland Show where I meet and talk with Joshua Nuttall to explore what leaders of today can learn from leaders of tomorrow. Today's discussion is all around Mentorship

Jens Heitland 7/17/21 Jens Heitland 7/17/21

Ep 39: Change

In this episode, we discuss, how you gain different perspectives and think differently how we challenge ourselves and how a playground might help companies to learn

Jens Heitland 7/16/21 Jens Heitland 7/16/21

Ep 38: Entrepreneurial Culture Design

Connecting the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Leigh Gamon. Leigh is Service Design Lead at Fjord the Innovation & Design arm of Accenture. She is an experienced change and culture designer.

Jens Heitland 7/15/21 Jens Heitland 7/15/21

Ep 36: Motivation

This is a special edition of the Jens Heitland Show where I meet and talk with Joshua Nuttall about Reverse Mentorship and what leaders of today can learn from leaders of tomorrow.

Jens Heitland 7/13/21 Jens Heitland 7/13/21

Ep 34: Entrepreneurial Culture II

We discuss entrepreneurial cultures and how young minds and the digital environment might contribute to them.

Jens Heitland 7/8/21 Jens Heitland 7/8/21

Ep 29: Reverse Mentorship

This is a special edition of the Jens Heitland Show where I meet and talk with Joshua Nuttall about a Reverse Mentorship prototype that was initiated last year called the XYZ Playground.