Human Innovation

Human Innovation explores leadership at the intersection of decisions, responsibility, and scale.

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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EP263: Edouard Leeuwenburg on Change, AI, and the One Person Company

Jens Heitland and Edouard Leeuwenburg revisit the OneFit turnaround years after their first conversation, then move into how Edouard built his own AI sales tool from the ground up. They discuss the difference between change forced by a crisis and change driven by small, repeated steps, and why the second kind tends to last longer. The conversation covers how Edouard built a full AI executive team, including a virtual CTO and CMO, to run his company with minimal staff. Jens and Edouard also explore what a one person, high revenue company looks like today, and what it takes to build one without a technical background.

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EP 69: The simplicity of innovation in the fitness industry

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with Edouard Leeuwenburg the Managing Director of the One Fit the Sports Club Network with 1,000+ locations throughout the Netherlands. Edouard shares his personal growth story and we discover the challenges of the fitness industry inside the pandemic and how he and his team navigate and innovate with simplicity.