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 109: Innovating for our grandchildren
This episode is an Innovation Breakfast Club Episode where I reconnect with previous guests as we explore different topics. This time we explored the topic of innovating for our grandchildren. How to do it and what the flaws of today's systems are.
EP 108: How to build an identity for your venue
In this Live Show Claus Raasted deconstructs a fictive case
The Case: Large international corporations are slowly getting disrupted by the competition. The management understands that they need to change but don’t know how to tackle the challenge.The Executive board is looking for ways to transform the business and engages Claus Raasted to support them.
EP107: Walk the talk
This episode is a special Innovation Breakfast Club where I reconnect with previous guests as we explore different topics. This time we deconstructed the phrases: Walk the talk and action over perfection. We dove into our definitions and tied it all together from a corporate perspective too.
EP 106: Bigger people not bigger guns
In this Live Show Claus Raasted deconstructs a fictive case
The Case: Large international corporations are slowly getting disrupted by the competition. The management understands that they need to change but don’t know how to tackle the challenge.The Executive board is looking for ways to transform the business and engages Claus Raasted to support them.
EP 105: Thinking in Frameworks
In this episode, I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Joe Pine; speaker, management advisor and author of several books.
EP 104: Transform training: Is there a life after PowerPoint?
Transform training: Is there a life after PowerPoint? - Innovation Culture Coding featuring Rob Tesh
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.
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.
EP 101: Enable people to live sustainably
In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Duncan Cox partner at the international Engineering firm Cundall. We explore zero carbon design, the impact of data for sustainability, education, and more.
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.
EP99: How to write a speech for a fortune 500 CEO to build innovation culture
In this Live Show Niels Forsberg deconstructs a fictive case
The Case: Comedian Niels Forsberg uncovered how to code innovation culture by making the CEO of a large corporation more relatable. He has chosen an extraordinary way of doing this through writing a speech for the Christmas party.
EP 98: Diversity of Thoughts
This episode is a special Innovation Breakfast Club where I reconnect with previous guests as we dive deeper into diversity of thought.
EP97: How businesses can create an experience that changes the way we eat
In this Live Show Lui Lezzy deconstructs a fictive case
The Case: An owner of an underutilized physical location has a dream. This person wants to give back to the local community and build a gastronomical experience. He hires Lui Lezzi to help him.
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.
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.
EP94: Innovate through Teams
This episode is a special Innovation Breakfast Club where I reconnect with previous guests as we explore how to establish innovative teams, how they work, appropriate leadership styles, and more.
EP 93: Accelerate Diversity the future of Real Estate
Gerard Groener Experienced Executive with more than 35 years in the Shopping Centre / Real Estate Industry. Together we explore the innovation mindset for the industry, look into empowerment Leadership approaches and the future potential of diversity for the Real Estate industry.
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.
EP 91: Youtube your business
Fei Wu YouTuber, Podcaster, Content Creator at Feisworld Media. Fei and I explore how entrepreneurs and corporations can use youtube to innovate their business and validate ideas.
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.