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 3/26/23 Jens Heitland 3/26/23

EP 216: Giving real people a platform - Ken Stearns

Ken Stearns is a grandfather, father, midwestern boy, writer, speaker, photographer, and lyricist.

He was an international insurance executive that quit to pursue his dreams of traveling the country meeting people, hearing their stories.

He hosts The Jar Live, a unique podcast that focuses on real people and real conversations.

His American upbringing, living in 5 countries, working in 20 over the last 20 years gives him a wide ranging view on life, people, travel, business, food, culture.

In our conversation we dive into the store of the Jar and how he got to record podcasts with strangers like Tom the Flower man. We talk about his book Dear God and explore how all of this will enable change in leadership in this world.

Jens Heitland 4/14/22 Jens Heitland 4/14/22

EP 161: How to build Innovation Culture? - HIQA live with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build innovation Culture?

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

What is innovation culture?
How to build an innovation culture?
Why does a company benefit from an innovation culture?
How to build an innovation lab?
What is the difference between innovation and entrepreneurship?
How to build an innovation strategy?
Innovation Culture vs Innovation Management

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 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 7/12/21 Jens Heitland 7/12/21

Ep 33: Entrepreneurial Culture

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.