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 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.

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 89: Own your experience with Pride

Ron Thurston Founder of TAKE RETAIL PRIDE. Ron is bestselling author and is celebrated as one of the Top 100 Global Retail Influencers in 2021. We dive into his retail experience and he tells the story how he grew personally and professionally from studying design, leading retail stores for Gap, Apple and many more to then further take large responsibilities in some of the most iconic brands in the world.

Jens Heitland 7/14/21 Jens Heitland 7/14/21

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.

Jens Heitland 7/1/21 Jens Heitland 7/1/21

Ep 21: Innovation Master

The Connecteurs Innovation Talk with Mercedes Vidal Lobato.

A Connector of the digital and innovation world.

She was the former Chief Digital Officer of IKEA Retail and led the digital transformation for the famous shoe brand Clarks.