The Jens Heitland Show -Human Innovation

Welcome to The Jens Heitland Show, the podcast for innovative leaders. On this show, corporate innovator and serial entrepreneur Jens Heitland interviews world-class leaders and innovators, and answers questions live in a variety of formats. The goal of this podcast is to inspire more people to innovate businesses in a way that puts humans first. Innovation is not just a process, it's a whole system that requires leadership and support to thrive.

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EP 222: Rehumanize Leadership with Hamza Khan

Hamza Khan is a well-known keynote speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning entrepreneur. He is recognized for his TEDx talk "Stop Managing, Start Leading," which has been viewed over two million times. Khan advocates for rehumanizing workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth, inspiring purposeful productivity, nurturing lasting resilience, and navigating constant change.

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EP 221: Beat Burnout with Jimmy Burroughes

Jimmy Burroughes is on a mission to change the way we lead teams. With years of experience as an Officer in the British Military and a track record of success as a people leader in top global organizations, Jimmy knows what it takes to build a high-performance culture that delivers results.

This is his second appearance after episode 179 where we go deep into his new book Beat burnout ignite performance

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EP 220: Pushing Limits Leadership Inspiration from Ultra Distance Athletes with Bryan Gillette

Bryan Gillette is a long-distance runner and cyclist who has pushed himself beyond physical and mental limits in various self-supported tours and races. He completed a 205-mile run around Lake Tahoe in 76 ½ hours with only 90 minutes of sleep.

His experiences in endurance sports have led him to write a book titled "EPIC Performance." In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Gillette has also found success in the business world. He founded Summiting Group, a company that coaches executives and advises leaders on performing at higher levels for themselves and their teams. Gillette lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.

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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.

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EP 215: Pay it forward - leadership with Dr. Kevin Gazzara

Dr. Kevin Gazzara is the CEO of Magna Leadership Solutions. He is Management & Leadership Expert, Executive Positive Intelligence Coach, Professor at 5 Universities, Speaker and Author of The Leader of OZ.

Kevin worked for 18 years at Intel Corporation in positions from Program and Product Management to Leadership Development. He holds a Bachelor in Science in Commerce and Engineering, an MBA and a Doctorate of Management in Organizational Leadership.

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EP 199: [Interview] Focus your intelligence - How emotional intelligent leaders build business strategies with Faris Aranki

Faris Aranki is the CEO of Shiageto Consultancy. Shiageto helps their clients to fundamentally solve complex problems with senior stakeholders, designing solutions that are right for individual businesses and engaging across organizations to turn complexity into business-as-usual.

Our wide ranging conversation covers emotional intelligence for Leaders, building strategies, how Faris got onto a billboard in London and many more nuggets.

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EP 196: [Live Q&A] Collaborate to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of SUCCEED.The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030 Questions I answered:

  • How do I motivate a team member?

  • How do you generate collaboration in a matrix organization?

  • How do I give negative feedback?

  • Our company is very hierarchical. I feel like I don't have a voice. How can I get the management to listen?

  • How do I build my network in a matrix organization?

  • How to develop a team member to perform better?

  • I get more and more tasks from my manager because she knows that when I get it it will be done. What can I do?

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EP 195: [Live Q&A] Ask and Lead to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.

The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030

Enjoy me answering the following questions around leadership.

- How do I lead a team remote?

- How do I lead my first job interview

- How do I stand out as a talent?

- How do I coach a person?

- How do I manage a conflict between 2 team members?

- How to communicate effectively with an international team?

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EP 194: Skills Mindset - Why defense is necessary and offense is mandatory with Dr. Mfon Akpan

This episode is a recording from the SUCCEED Platform where Dr. Mfon Akpan joined me to teach people on the skills mindset.

Dr. Mfon Akpan is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Methodist University in Carolina. He is teaching his students in different ways than I have experienced myself. Or did you have a professor who is deep into TikTok, Snapchat and the newest tech and knows how to use e.g. Instagram lives to teach students?

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EP 193: Delegate to lead - Ask & Lead to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.

At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.

As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.

Enjoy me answering questions around leading others.

SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

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EP 192: Leading through trust - Ask & Lead to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.

At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.

As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.

Enjoy me answering questions around leading myself.

SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

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EP 190: Lead to SUCCEED - HIQA with Jens Heitland

Announcing a new Startup that is democratizing Leadership Education.

In this episode I will go deeper into the background of SUCCEED.

What is the mission, the problem we want to solve and more.

Explore SUCCEED: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

#leadandsucceed

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EP 189: Innovating E-commerce - Jörg Heinemann on innovating e-commerce building a fishing mail order company and corporate innovation

Jörg is driving Innovation and Digitization for one of Europe’s most successful E-Commerce companies based in Germany. His favorite topics are IoT, Smart Home and Conversational Commerce. He founded a fishing mail order company in 1999 and since then loves E-Commerce, Marketing and Digitization since that time..

In this episode we talk about technology and tech innovation. Jörg shares his experience of visiting IFA Berlin and we talk about e-commerce innovation in corporations and the challenges of the German culture for innovation.

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EP 188: How not to lead - HIQA with Jens Heitland

In this episode I let the listener look into my big list of things I have written down during the last 20 years that I did not like about how people lead me.

I call this list how I will not lead. I am looking at this list at least once per year to remind myself about all the topics.

Topics I cover:

I will not micromanage my team

I will not jump in and solve every problem

I will not be a tank / asshole

I will not let people “hurt” me in public

I will not be the grumpy manager

I will not shout at others

I will not type while a person talks to me

I will not blame my team members in public

I will not talk negative about people behind their back

I will not wait to long to take decisions

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EP 187: Yes, you can innovate - Natalie Turner on leadership development, corporate innovation and talents

Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist having spent over 25 years working as a corporate innovation director, a business consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organizations including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, helping them build innovation systems, culture and capabilities as well as generating new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses.

As Founder of The Entheo Network, based out of Singapore, she has made her passion for purpose and people driven innovation practical as well as inspirational to elevate people’s thinking on not only what they can create, but how - the mind, skill sets and cultural environments - that make everyday innovation happen.

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