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 143: Curiosity as superpower - Monica Canfield Lenfest on healing, teaching, and building curiosity.

Monica Canfield Lenfest, Healer, Teacher, Project Manager and curious collaborator of architecting curiosity.

Monica and I explore her story how she early on learned the value of authenticity the physical move to San Francisco changed her life and of course healing, teaching and curiosity in all depth to innovate yourself and business.

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EP 132: Pleasure and purpose – How startups get rated and how mental health impacts success.

Gene Gerrienne Partner - UK & International Markets at Early Metrics a company that is rating startups and through that helps corporate innovators and funds stay ahead of the curve.

Together we explored innovation from startup, corporate and venture perspectives, we dove into mental health, lifestyle. Gene shared his stories of finishing a 100km run and the importance of mindset for startup founders and corporate innovators.

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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.

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EP 121: Social Innovation - Madison Marks

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Madison Marks, Director of The Social Innovation Lab at Johns Hopkins University. We talk about her experience living and working in the Middle East, the importance of being aware of the local culture for business and how she coaches startups to create social impact.

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EP 117: Disruptive Innovation

Sanjay Bhargava Space X Country Director India leading Starlink on disruptive innovation, how we solve global challenges and more.

In our discussion Sanjay tells stories of disruptive innovation individually, as a business, and as a country. He shares his passion for upward mobility and ways of working towards prosperity.

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EP 113: Modern HR

Annissa Desphpande is a modern HR expert, author and founder of Loglab - a business that is helping clients through creative HR solutions with business results that can be measured.

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EP 103: Systems innovation

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Jennifer Wilde and Dan McClure, founders of the company Innovation Ecosystem. Together we explore their story, systems innovation and how they use it to solve big problems in the world and more.

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EP 102: Flip the development process upside down

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Line Lyst, Chief Entrepreneur of the GN Group, which develops intelligent hearing, audio, and video collaboration solutions. Line shares her wealth of experience from having worked in different corporations in leading innovation positions, the corporate innovation setups, processes, education and more.

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EP96: Mario Herger on Silicon Valley Technology Trends

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Mario Herger, technology trend researcher and author. Together we explore his stories of living in Silicon Valley as an Austrian, his views on artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, other trends, and of course the books he has written.

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EP 92: Skills will change the future

Mfon Akpan Assistant Professor, Accounting Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Mfon is sharing his passion of teaching, how he enables students to build skills and adapt them in technology and business.

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