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 209: [Interview] Artificial Intelligence- How ChatGTP transforms Education with Dr. Mfon Akpan
Dr. Mfon Akpan Assistant Professor, Accounting Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
This is his 3rd appearance on the podcast after Episode 92 and 194.
In this episode we talk about the Artificial Intelligence chatbot Chat GTP, how it works, the impact of it in education and more AI.
EP 208: Stakeholder pitching - How to win the buy in of internal stakeholders before you start prototyping- Jens Heitland
EP 208: Stakeholder pitching - How to win the buy in of internal stakeholders before you start prototyping- Jens Heitland
Welcome to HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered
This episode covers the topic of winning stakeholders before you start prototyping an idea inside of your innovation funnel.
EP 207: [Interview] Teenage Innovators - Hugo Pickford-Wardle on teenage innovation programs and startups run by teenagers
Hugo Pickford-Wardle is a social entrepreneur on a mission to help the next generation start their careers with the skills to bring their ideas to life and financial freedom to pursue those ideas.
EP 206: [Solo] Innovation Strategy gathering - HIQA-Human Innovation Questions Answered with Jens Heitland
In this episode I cover the topic of Strategy gathering as part of preparing for Scenario workshops which will enable an organization to find out what problems the innovation team will focus on.
EP 205: [Interview] Innovation Capabilities - Natalie Turner
Natalie Turner is back on the podcast after her appearance in Episode 187. In today's episode, we'll be diving deeper into the topic of innovation capability development and using a case study of one specific team to explore this concept further.
EP 204: [Interview] The superpower of art - Michaell Magrutsche
Austrian-Californian multimedia Artist, creative and awareness educator, author of 5 books, podcaster, speaker, coach, former Newport Beach CA arts commissioner.
EP 203: [Interview] Bulls and Apes: A Guide to Web 3 with Anthony Mongiello
Anthony Mongiello is a professional with over 20 years of experience in the corporate world, specifically in the commercial property and casualty insurance industry, working for large organizations like Excel and AXA. He has experience in delivering strategy and transformation, working on mergers and acquisitions, and has spent a lot of time in the finance and technology sectors, focusing on disruptive technologies.
EP 202: [Interview] Reprogramming success - Victor Manzo
Victor Manzo is a Business Mindset Coach, Certified Pediatric Chiropractor, Podcaster and Speaker.
EP 201: [Interview] Leadership Fundamentals - Peter Anderton about the two rules of leadership
Peter works as Executive Coach and a High Performance Team Engineer. He is a public speaker and has spoken at tedx at the time of the recording the ted talk has 1,5 million views.
In our conversation Peter shares the 2 rules of leadership and we explore how the rules can be applied by leaders.
EP 200: [Interview] Author your own life - AJ Greenberg
AJ Greenberg is the Co-founder of Biograph. A platform where you can document your memories in voice, text, video, photo and can utilize this data to tell your story.
In this episode we talk about the importance of storytelling, memories, his experience in writing memoirs and the power of documenting your life.
EP 199: [Interview] Focus your intelligence - How emotional intelligent leaders build business strategies with Faris Aranki
Faris Aranki is the CEO of Shiageto Consultancy. Shiageto helps their clients to fundamentally solve complex problems with senior stakeholders, designing solutions that are right for individual businesses and engaging across organizations to turn complexity into business-as-usual.
Our wide ranging conversation covers emotional intelligence for Leaders, building strategies, how Faris got onto a billboard in London and many more nuggets.
EP 198: [Interview] Startup funding - How performance-based equity will accelerate a startup with Chris Joyce
Chris Joyce is the founder of 24 companies in high tech, consumer goods, health, and manufacturing. His products have been sold in more than 11,000 stores in 23 countries. He has users of his tech products in 148 countries across the globe. His newest venture is Gusher. Gusher helps Entrepreneurs to build startups without raising capital.
EP 197: [Interview] Leadership is a choice - SUCCEED Leadership Chat with Ricardo Rosa
Experienced Leader Ricardo Rosa, Head of Innovation Sonae Sierra shared how he is leading people, how he would like to be lead and more perspectives of his leadership journey.
EP 196: [Live Q&A] Collaborate to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of SUCCEED.The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030 Questions I answered:
How do I motivate a team member?
How do you generate collaboration in a matrix organization?
How do I give negative feedback?
Our company is very hierarchical. I feel like I don't have a voice. How can I get the management to listen?
How do I build my network in a matrix organization?
How to develop a team member to perform better?
I get more and more tasks from my manager because she knows that when I get it it will be done. What can I do?
EP 195: [Live Q&A] Ask and Lead to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030
Enjoy me answering the following questions around leadership.
- How do I lead a team remote?
- How do I lead my first job interview
- How do I stand out as a talent?
- How do I coach a person?
- How do I manage a conflict between 2 team members?
- How to communicate effectively with an international team?
EP 194: Skills Mindset - Why defense is necessary and offense is mandatory with Dr. Mfon Akpan
This episode is a recording from the SUCCEED Platform where Dr. Mfon Akpan joined me to teach people on the skills mindset.
Dr. Mfon Akpan is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Methodist University in Carolina. He is teaching his students in different ways than I have experienced myself. Or did you have a professor who is deep into TikTok, Snapchat and the newest tech and knows how to use e.g. Instagram lives to teach students?
EP 193: Delegate to lead - Ask & Lead to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.
As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.
Enjoy me answering questions around leading others.
SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
EP 192: Leading through trust - Ask & Lead to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.
As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.
Enjoy me answering questions around leading myself.
SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
EP 191: Grease or Grit? - Occupational Licensing with Morris Kleiner
EP 191: Grease or Grit? - Occupational Licensing with Morris Kleiner
Morris M. Kleiner is professor and AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He also teaches at the University's Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies. He has received many teaching awards and has served as an expert on labor issues to government, labor, nonprofits, and business.
He has published extensively in the top academic journals in labor economics and industrial relations, and is the author, co-author, or co-editor of nine books.
EP 190: Lead to SUCCEED - HIQA with Jens Heitland
Announcing a new Startup that is democratizing Leadership Education.
In this episode I will go deeper into the background of SUCCEED.
What is the mission, the problem we want to solve and more.
Explore SUCCEED: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
#leadandsucceed