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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EP271: The Human Side of AI Readiness in Europe

In this episode of The European Perspective, Jens Heitland, Stephen Brooks, and Stewart Guenther discuss how organizations in Europe are using AI today, why the human side of change is holding many of them back, what recent communication missteps at the large AI labs reveal about leadership under pressure, and how the layoffs moving through European industries could open space for innovation and new businesses.