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 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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EP 100: The Innovateur Hub

This is a special episode because it is episode number 100. Jens has decided to record an episode alone and share the backstory of the podcast, where he is today and what is going to happen with the show and the ecosystem around it.

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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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EP95: How to design innovation culture with diversity?

How to design innovation culture with diversity?- Innovation Culture Coding featuring Werner Puchert. In this Live Show Werner Puchet deconstructs a fictive case

The Case: A company is heavily impacted due to the pandemic. They miss out on revenue and look for new opportunities. A Manager of an existing team is engaging Werner to help them.

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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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EP 90: Innovate your date

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with

Sabina Iman Founder of Blink. Blink is a dating app that enables people present in the same venue match and meet instantly. Sabina is sharing her story the entrepreneurial roller coaster how she developed the dating app Blink and many more stories.

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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.

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EP 88: Innovation Space

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship around the innovation space. Werner Puchert, Dennis Luijer and Joshua Nuttall and I explore what an innovation space can be if it is physical, digital, mental or something completely different. After defining it we look into how you can create and explore the space to enable innovation in organisations.

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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.

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EP 85: Bringing the magic home

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with Anthony Rocco strategist and experience designer, his current project is called architecting curiosity. Anthony and I explore his view on innovation culture, experiences and how to architect curiosity.

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