Human Innovation
Human Innovation explores leadership at the intersection of decisions, responsibility, and scale.
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 152 - Outcome driven Innovation - Tony Ulwick on the importance of the innovation process in corporations
Tony is the pioneer of Jobs-to-be-Done Theory, the inventor of the Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI) process, and the founder of strategy and innovation consulting firm Strategyn. Tony has applied his ODI process at some of the world’s leading companies and across nearly all industries to inform breakthrough innovations—achieving a success rate that is 5 times better than the industry average. Philip Kotler calls Tony “the Deming of innovation” and credits him with bringing predictability to innovation. Published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Tony is also the author of bestsellers What Customers Want and JOBS TO BE DONE: Theory to Practice.
EP 151 - Mental adaptation - Ivan Jimenez on corporate innovation, investing and the innovation ecosystem
Ivan Jimenez Head of Innovation at Mutualidad Abogacía and Seed Investor at BackFund joined me to talk about mental adaptation, corporate innovation and how corporations can work with startups.
EP 150: Think to innovate - Dr. Tobias Adam on Structured thinking, the creativity process and complex decision Making
Dr. Tobias Adam, CEO of Parmenides AG joined me to talk about the Creative Process, we explored how you can learn to think creatively to innovate and dove deeper into complex decision making.
EP 149: Helping People Think - Tamara Eberle on ideation, facilitation and great tools for innovators
Tamara Eberle Certified professional Facilitator with two decades of team leadership and organizational development experience joined me to talk innovation. We talked ideation, why the famous sticky notes are not always sign for being innovative and she shared tips and tricks for innovators to innovate.
EP 148: Innovation For Good - Marta Del Castillo about purpose driven organizations, innovation culture and doing good.
Marta del Castillo, CEO of Spain Startup - South Summit joined me to talk innovation.She shares her inspiring story from living on 4 continents in different circumstances. We I talk about the importance of purpose driven organizations , Female Leadership as the core skills and of course innovation in startups and corporates.
EP 147: Leadership Matters- Steve Baker on Leadership, Coaching and being coached, limiting beliefs and more.
Steve Baker Facilitator, Coach and Keynote speaker. Steve shared his story and experience working with great leaders as an employee and later as coach. We talked about company Culture, Leadership styles and Leadership capabilities.
EP 146: Radical Innovation - Alberto Rodríguez and Andrés Haddad about innovation space supporting corporations and startups.
Together we explore their stories, the innovation ecosystem and of course THE CUBE and how especially Andres and his teams use radical innovation to support companies. And how they learned from uber to build and operate a workation spot as THE CUBE extension.
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.
EP 144: Storytelling through travelling - Ranjan Pal on travel writing and the process of telling stories
Ranjan Pal Travel Writer and story teller
Ranjan is a Travel Writer who stept out of the corporate world and documents his adventures for the most famous travel magazines around the world. We go deep into his process and uncover his learnings.
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.
EP 142: Innovation as a plateau buster - Innovation Culture Coding featuring Doug Faulkner
Innovation Culture Coding featuring featuring Doug Faulkner
Innovation as a plateau buster
How to innovate through personal impact.
EP 141: Retail: Innovating through people on the frontline
Ulrike Spang-Lessnow, Ron Thurston and Stephen Brooks joined me for the Innovation Breakfast Club Retail edition to explore the innovation through the people on the frontline.
EP 140: Disrupting the disruptors - Innovation Culture Coding featuring Bruno Pesec
Innovation Culture Coding featuring featuring Bruno Pesec
Disrupting the disruptors
How might a leading European bank grow its market share and remain competitive in the 21st century.
EP 139: Organization design in Web 3 - Daniel Ospina on the power of web 3, decentralized autonomous organizations and more
Daniel Ospina Organization & Social System Designer and former Head of (decentralized) Governance at Aragon joined me to talk about organization design in the web 3 environment and the power of decentralized autonomous organizations.
EP 138: Review 2021
Joshua Nuttall, Dennis Luijer and Werner Puchert joined me for this Innovation Breakfast Club Episode where we looked back at the 9 Breakfast Club episodes we recorded in this setting in 2021
EP 137: Entrepreneurs F*ck Up Night Vol. 6
Entrepreneurs F*ck Up Night Vol 6
Learn from the failure stories of experienced entrepreneurs Dennis Luijer and Mika Goeckel who joined the 6th Entrepreneurs F*ck Up night hosted by Can Adiguzel and Jens Heitland.
EP 136: Future proofing - Innovation Culture Coding featuring Gwen Deloux
Innovation Culture Coding featuring featuring Gwen Deloux
Future proofing
How embracing change can help innovation and personal development
Gwen Deloux Coach and Innovation consultant with the client and consumer at the heart of what she does.
EP 135: Change That Workz - Ask Agger on how to work with change that matters, gamification, change leadership and more.
Ask Agger CEO of Workz, a Danish change agency specialized in organizational culture, serious games, radical innovation, and experience design.
EP 134: The Culture of Innovation - Mark Neild on teaching entrepreneurship, flying helicopters, a mousetrap story and more.
Mark Neild started his career as a helicopter pilot. He completed an MBA, and worked in telecom and consulting before taking a year off to build his own business in New Zealand. He also teaches at the University of Bristol.
EP 133: International Development - Bishoy Sadek - How countries cooperate and innovate
Bishoy Sadek is an expert in project management with more than 8 years in international development cooperation and sustainability, business development, private sector development through public-private partnership, process consulting, and change management.