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 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.

Jens Heitland 10/24/21 Jens Heitland 10/24/21

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.

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

EP 87: Intersection of brilliant minds

In this episode we connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship around people

Mercedes Vidal Werner Puchert, Joshua Nuttall, Debora Labusch, Ulrike Spang-Lessnow, Dennis Luijer and I explore the importance of leadership, community, engagement and many more topics around people.

Jens Heitland 8/19/21 Jens Heitland 8/19/21

EP 76: Everyday University

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship around the topic or Education. Debora Labusch, Ulrike Spang Lessnow , Mercedes Vidal and I explore formal and informal educations how and from whom we learn and what all of that has to do with Innovation.

Jens Heitland 8/10/21 Jens Heitland 8/10/21

EP 67: Innovate through curiosity

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship around the topic or curiosity. Debora Labusch, Ulrike Spang Lessnow , Mercedes Vidal and I explore what curiosity is for us, how it can be used to foster innovation and how companies can stimulate curiosity in their employees.

Jens Heitland 7/30/21 Jens Heitland 7/30/21

EP 55: The need for innovation

In this Episode I meet with Debora Labusch, Ulrike Spang Lessnow and Mercedes Vidal and we explore innovation in different phases of organisations, forced change from the outside and how you innovate with your teams.

Jens Heitland 7/4/21 Jens Heitland 7/4/21

Ep 25: Innovation in Corporate Retail

Ulrike is an International Business Leader and Top Retail Executive with leadership positions in brands like

Intersport, IKEA, and Douglas in several European countries.