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 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.

Jens Heitland 12/10/21 Jens Heitland 12/10/21

EP 130: Innovators are Rough Diamonds - Nicole Yershon on innovation in big companies, connecting and fearlessness.

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Nicole Yershon Founder and CEO of The NY Collective and author of the book Rough Diamond. Nicole and I talked about innovation in large organizations, why she called herself the “fixer”, the opportunity of diversity in companies and many more topics.

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

EP 86: Emotions change choices

Sara Westbrook is an Emotional Resilience Strategist. Sara and I explore how emotions can change company culture, how emotional awareness, emotional management and emotional resilience can enable businesses to flourish, and many more topics.