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 129: The future of organizations
Joshua Nuttall - Web 3 expert, Stephen Brooks - the retail pop-up expert, and Jeff Parks - a user experience and design expert joined me for this Innovation Breakfast Club episode where we explored what the future of organizations might look like.
EP 128: Increase your potential
Increase your potential
How might a Solar company design new products to replace less efficient ones.
Ellia Harris coaches business leaders in the sustainability, social enterprise, and nonprofit sectors on innovation strategies and developing their team’s problem-solving abilities.
EP 127: Sustainable innovation
Sustainable innovation
How to build an innovation program to accelerate sustainable change.
Mladen Panov Innovation coach empowers organisations in the sustainability sector to innovate by using the Impact Kickbox Program that brings startup and innovation mindset into the heart of the organisation.
EP 126: Scaling for the Spotlight
Scaling for the Spotlight
Why Entrepreneurs Need to Focus on Operations.
Alicia Butler Pierre founder of Equilibria, Inc. a boutique operations management firm specializing in increasing bandwidth for fast-growing small businesses. joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.
EP 125: Marketer in Chief - Jason Voiovich on product innovation, marketing strategies of the US presidents and more.
Jason shared his innovation stories from kettle framing to the marketing of presidents, we covered his curiosity around the scientific process, how he helps a Museum with Dinosaurs and of course explore the innovative process of his book.
EP 124: Innovation through inner leadership
Innovation through inner leadership.
How to overcome personal challenges and create business outcomes.
Barnet Bain is a Canadian filmmaker, executive coach and educator. Select film credits include Milton’s Secret (director, writer) based on the novel by Eckhart Tolle, Oscar-winner What Dreams May Come (producer), Emmy-Award nominee, Outstanding TV Movie, Homeless to Harvard (executive producer), The Celestine Prophecy (writer, producer), and The Lost and Found Family (director). Barnet is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and a founding member of the Association of Transformational Leaders.
EP 123: Entrepreneurs F*ck Up Night Vol. 5
Entrepreneurs F*ck Up Night Vol 5
Learn from the failure stories of experienced entrepreneurs.Roel van den Berg and Sepehr Hamzehlouia joined the 5th Entrepreneurs F*ck Up night hosted by Can Adiguzel and Jens Heitland.
EP 122: Innovation through play
Innovation through play. Architecting Curiosity to innovate.
Pim Schachtschabel leads strategic direction, project design, and marketing campaigns that expand and evolve brands. He creates compelling stories and customer experiences that reach audiences across a wide range of touch-points, including physical and digital.
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.
EP 120: Result generating innovation
How to innovate through a powerful structured and result oriented innovation method? Rex Bierlaagh, entrepreneur in (social) innovation management joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.
EP 119: Personal Happiness
In our conversation Ashlee tells her story, how she empowers people inside and outside of the business environment and creates personal happiness.
EP 118: Innovate your model
How the travel industry has to change their business model. Elena Rodríguez Blanco, Impact Investor, Travel Futurist,Speaker, Intl' Bestseller Author and Social Entrepreneur joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.
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.
EP 116: Leading transformations
How to build human capabilities that change organizations for good. Michael Leckie Consultant & Advisor for Change and Transformation and Author joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.
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.
EP 114: Innovate through differentiation
Innovation Culture Coding featuring Aga Szóstek. Innovate through differentiation. How to stand out in a market that is commoditized.
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.
EP 112: Innovate through inquiry
By asking insightful questions, building partnerships with clients and engaging expertise, Executive/Career Coach Tammy Gooler Loeb customizes an approach that yields empowering results for your career.
EP 111: The Directors Way
Demian Lichtenstein interviewed Stephen Brooks to extract and help to uncover his personal story.
EP 110: Innovate through inspired leadership
Innovate through inspired leadership. How to lead innovation through challenging your own mindset.
Case we explored:
The Head of Innovation of a large company has a problem
The Cost of Innovation is to high and the process that has worked the last years is not working anymore. Innovation is stagnating Sarah Campbell is asked to help.