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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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/

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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/

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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.

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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

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