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.
© All Content 2020-2025 - The Jens Heitland Show - Produced by Heitland Media Group
Listen on Spotify , Apple Podcast , Amazon Music , Radio Public , Stitcher , RSS
Search for your favourite episode:
EP 145: Demystify Innovation - Stephen Brooks and Jens Heitland defining innovation and how companies can benefit from it.
Stephen Brooks the Retail Expert and I explore the definition of innovation, how the Retail Real Estate industry can benefit from innovation and how organizations and leadership can adapt.
EP 141: Retail: Innovating through people on the frontline
Ulrike Spang-Lessnow, Ron Thurston and Stephen Brooks joined me for the Innovation Breakfast Club Retail edition to explore the innovation through the people on the frontline.
EP 129: The future of organizations
Joshua Nuttall - Web 3 expert, Stephen Brooks - the retail pop-up expert, and Jeff Parks - a user experience and design expert joined me for this Innovation Breakfast Club episode where we explored what the future of organizations might look like.
EP 115: The Future of Retail
This episode is an Innovation Breakfast Club where I reconnect with previous guests as we explore different topics, this time the future of retail. We discussed what will make retailers successful in the future and what the future might look like.
EP 111: The Directors Way
Demian Lichtenstein interviewed Stephen Brooks to extract and help to uncover his personal story.
EP 109: Innovating for our grandchildren
This episode is an Innovation Breakfast Club Episode where I reconnect with previous guests as we explore different topics. This time we explored the topic of innovating for our grandchildren. How to do it and what the flaws of today's systems are.
EP94: Innovate through Teams
This episode is a special Innovation Breakfast Club where I reconnect with previous guests as we explore how to establish innovative teams, how they work, appropriate leadership styles, and more.
EP 80: Vertical Collaboration
Lina Safstrom, Stephen Brooks, Brian Kilkelly and I explore sustainability as an opportunity the importance of vertical collaboration and system change needed in the Retail and Real Estate industry and more.
Ep 35: Retail isn't dead
Connecting the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Stephen Brooks.
Stephen is the leading expert in commercialization and pop-up retail. He is the author of several books, a speaker, and a business coach.