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 2014: Innovating chocolate experiences with Cielo Cantoni and Niklas Begau

Cielo and Niklas are the founders of ChocNchoc a chocolate startup that is changing the way how we experience chocolate.

Both of them grew up in large corporations like Jacobs and Mars and they still work next to running their chocolate startup.

Jens Heitland 1/1/22 Jens Heitland 1/1/22

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 11/17/21 Jens Heitland 11/17/21

EP 124: Innovation through inner leadership

Innovation through inner leadership.

How to overcome personal challenges and create business outcomes.

Barnet Bain is a Canadian filmmaker, executive coach and educator. Select film credits include Milton’s Secret (director, writer) based on the novel by Eckhart Tolle, Oscar-winner What Dreams May Come (producer), Emmy-Award nominee, Outstanding TV Movie, Homeless to Harvard (executive producer), The Celestine Prophecy (writer, producer), and The Lost and Found Family (director). Barnet is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and a founding member of the Association of Transformational Leaders.

Jens Heitland 11/12/21 Jens Heitland 11/12/21

EP 122: Innovation through play

Innovation through play. Architecting Curiosity to innovate.

Pim Schachtschabel leads strategic direction, project design, and marketing campaigns that expand and evolve brands. He creates compelling stories and customer experiences that reach audiences across a wide range of touch-points, including physical and digital.

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 9/27/21 Jens Heitland 9/27/21

EP 105: Thinking in Frameworks

In this episode, I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Joe Pine; speaker, management advisor and author of several books.

Jens Heitland 8/31/21 Jens Heitland 8/31/21

EP 85: Bringing the magic home

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with Anthony Rocco strategist and experience designer, his current project is called architecting curiosity. Anthony and I explore his view on innovation culture, experiences and how to architect curiosity.

Jens Heitland 8/20/21 Jens Heitland 8/20/21

EP 77: Experience design for the people

Andrew Lacanienta on Experience design, intention, changing organisational culture and more.

Jens Heitland 7/24/21 Jens Heitland 7/24/21

Ep 48: Innovation through healing

Connecting the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Paul Bulencea.

Paul is the Co-founder College of Extraordinary Experiences and Co-author of the book Gamification in Tourism. He was featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 List and has spoken at TEDx events.