Jens Heitland

Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show

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Long form conversations with CEOs and senior leaders on leadership, decision making, and innovation inside complex organizations. Hosted by Jens Heitland, CEO of Heitland Media Group and former Global Head of Innovation at IKEA Centres.© The Jens Heitland Show - Heitland Media Group

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Jens Heitland

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Business

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Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

EP 205: [Interview] Innovation Capabilities - Natalie Turner 23.01.2023

Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist with over 25 years of experience working as a corporate innovation director, business consultant, and entrepreneur. She has worked with some of the world's leading organizations, including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, to help them build innovation systems, culture, and capabilities, as well as gene...

EP 204: [Interview] The superpower of art - Michaell Magrutsche 19.01.2023

Austrian-Californian multimedia Artist, creative and awareness educator, author of 5  books, podcaster, speaker, coach, former Newport Beach CA arts commissioner In our wide ranging conversation Michaell shares how to build awareness and engage with your human superpowers  Guest Links:  Michael on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellart/ Website: https://michaellm.com/ Youtube: https://w...

EP 203: [Interview] Bulls and Apes: A Guide to Web 3 with Anthony Mongiello 16.01.2023

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 disru...

EP 203: [Interview] Reprogramming success - Victor Manzo 09.01.2023

Victor Manzo is a Business Mindset Coach, Certified Pediatric Chiropractor, Podcaster and Speaker. He is the author of 3 books, with the most recent one being, "Decoding The Matrix: Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Potential and Accelerating Your Spiritual Awakening" Dr. Vic has helped 100s of entrepreneurs learn how to create their dream life and lead a fulfilled life effortlessly thro...

EP 201: [Interview] Leadership Fundamentals - Peter Anderton about the two rules of leadership 19.12.2022

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. Guest Links:  Peter on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-anderton/ Website: https://peteranderto...

EP 200: [Interview] Author your own life - AJ Greenberg on memories, and how to document your life collaboratively 16.12.2022

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. Guest Links:  AJ on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-greenberg/ Biograph: https...

EP 199: Focus your intelligence - How emotional intelligent leaders build business strategies with Faris Aranki 12.12.2022

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 bil...

EP 198: Startup funding - How performance-based equity will accelerate a startup with Chris Joyce 05.12.2022

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. In this episode Chris shares what he learned by building 24...

EP 197: Leadership is a choice - SUCCEED Leaders Chat with Ricardo Rosa 28.11.2022

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. Guest Links:  Ricardo on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-rosa-035a15/ Sonae Sierra: https://www.sonaesierra.com/corporate/en-gb SUCCEED is a platform that is focussed to bring leadership education to 1 billion...

EP 196: Collaborate to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland 21.11.2022

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: 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 ca...

EP 195: Ask and Lead to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland 14.11.2022

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 questions around leadership. SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/ Link to the show: Please find all resources like video, audio, show notes and as well some shorter clips of the episode at https://www.jensheitland.com...

EP 194: Skills Mindset - Why defense is necessary and offense is mandatory with Dr. Mfon Akpan 07.11.2022

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....

EP 193: Delegate to lead - Ask to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland 31.10.2022

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 que...

EP 192: Leading through trust - Ask to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland 24.10.2022

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 que...

EP 191: Grease or Grit? - Occupational Licensing with Morris Kleiner 17.10.2022

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...

EP 190: Lead to SUCCEED - HIQA with Jens Heitland 01.10.2022

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 Link to the show: Please find all resources like video, audio, show notes and as well some shorter clips of the episode at https://www.jensheit...

EP 189: Innovating E-commerce - Jörg Heinemann on innovating e-commerce building a fishing mail order company and corporate innovation 19.09.2022

Jörg is driving Innovation and Digitization for one of Europe’s most successful E-Commerce companies based in Germany. His favorite topics are IoT, Smart Home and Conversational Commerce. He founded a fishing mail order company in 1999 and since then loves E-Commerce, Marketing and Digitization since that time..   In this episode we talk about technology and tech innovation. Jörg shares his experi...

EP 188: How not to lead - HIQA with Jens Heitland 16.09.2022

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered In this episode I let the listener look into my big list of things I have written down during the last 20 years that I did not like about how people lead me. I call this list how I will not lead. I am looking at this list at least once per year to remind myself about all the topics. Topics I cover: I will not micromanage my team I will not jump in and sol...

EP 187: Yes, you can innovate - Natalie Turner on leadership development, corporate innovation and talents 12.09.2022

Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist having spent over 25 years working as a corporate innovation director, a business consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organizations including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, helping them build innovation systems, culture and capabilities as well as...

EP 186: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team? - HIQA Live with Jens Heitland 08.09.2022

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team? Questions I answered in the live show: What is the right org setup for innovation? How do I find the right people for innovation? Do I need to lead innovators differently? How do I train people to innovate? If you have questions to the topic or questions you want me to cover...

EP 185: Human Centered Design - Adam Billing on innovating through design thinking, design fiction and innovation impact assessments. 05.09.2022

Adam is the founder of Treehouse Innovation, a London-based innovation consultancy. He specializes in collaborative design, innovation, design thinking, creativity and cross-boundary collaboration. He has led numerous innovation projects and design events for global organizations across sectors. In addition, he has designed and delivered learning programmes with leading business schools including...

EP 184: Corporate Innovation - How can human innovation change business results? - HIQA Live with Jens Heitland 01.09.2022

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How can human innovation change business results? Questions I answered in the live show: Because of  covid it is all about saving costs right now in our company. How can I still innovate? Everyone talks about innovation in our company but all we do are small improvements rather than real innovation. How to...

EP 183: Innovate through Neurodiversity - Steve Hill on working with autistic IT Consultants and neurodiversity as leaders 29.08.2022

Steve Hill is Commercial Director at Auticon UK, a unique, multi-national IT consultancy and social enterprise, which exclusively employs autistic adults as IT consultants. Previously Steve was Business Strategy & Development Director within the Predictive Analytics and IoT sector of McLaren Applied, leading the strategy around “Intelligent Fleet” and "Intelligent Operations" as part...

EP 182: Corporate Innovation - How to engage the organizational silos? - HIQA Live with Jens Heitland 18.07.2022

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered Live The topic of today’s episode is: Corporate Innovation - How to engage the organizational silos? Questions I answer in the show: What can I do as a leader in mid management to encourage my team to work better with other teams when innovating? Other departments work against us, how do I turn this around as a leader? The other departments (marketing and...

EP 181: Personal Brand: People follow People - Matthew Hunt on personal branding, community and building relationships. 11.07.2022

Matthew Hunt, founder of Automation Wolf, helps busy CEO’s to scale their business leveraging invisible automated marketing funnels. We talk about personal branding, the power of linkedin and relationship building and he shares how he helps busy CEO’s to build a system for success.   Guest Links:  Mathew on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhuntme/ Website: https://automationwolf.com Li...

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