The Jens Heitland Show -Human Innovation

Welcome to The Jens Heitland Show, the podcast for innovative leaders. On this show, corporate innovator and serial entrepreneur Jens Heitland interviews world-class leaders and innovators, and answers questions live in a variety of formats. The goal of this podcast is to inspire more people to innovate businesses in a way that puts humans first. Innovation is not just a process, it's a whole system that requires leadership and support to thrive.

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EP 232: Walk the Talk London: Innovating with Visual Storytelling with Natalia Talkowska

Explore "Walk the Talk London" with Natalia Talkowska on The Jens Heitland Show. Delve into the art of visual storytelling and its significant impact on business innovation and strategic communication.

Jens Heitland 10/22/23 Jens Heitland 10/22/23

EP 228: Innovation Breakfast Club Revival

Jens Heitland reunites with guests from 'Innovation Breakfast Club' episode 138. They discuss impactful questions, trust-building, a human-centric business approach, and time's concept. Dive in for key contemporary insights.

Jens Heitland 4/11/23 Jens Heitland 4/11/23

EP 218: Incubate public value with Alexander Hertel

Alexander Hertel is the CEO and Founder of Public Value Hub an NGO that is focused on creating social impact through entrepreneurship. Over his career Alex worked as reporter in different media companies such as MDR and ARD in Germany and as well abroad in Central Eastern Europe.

In our conversation Alex shares the story how he got to build the Public Value Hub we talk about RestartUA a program that helps displaced people from the Ukraine to start a social business in Germany and how this fits into the Public Value Incubator

Jens Heitland 1/23/23 Jens Heitland 1/23/23

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.

Jens Heitland 6/26/22 Jens Heitland 6/26/22

EP 180: The future of city design - Ocean Jangda on urban design technology innovation districts and cycling.

Ocean Jangda Urban Technologist world traveler and passionate about Real Estate and City Development.

Ocean shared his personal story living in different spaces and we explored technology development in urban design and the impact of it. We talk about cycling and the innovation district in Barcelona.

Jens Heitland 6/1/22 Jens Heitland 6/1/22

EP 175: How do I manage stakeholders - the human way? - HIQA with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

Questions I cover in the show:

How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?
How to map stakeholders - the human way?
Why should you build a relationship with your stakeholders to innovate?
How to collaborate with stakeholders - the human way?

Jens Heitland 5/24/22 Jens Heitland 5/24/22

EP 173: How to transform a business the human way? - HIQA with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

How to transform a business the human way?
How to lead a business transformation the human way?
How to communicate a transformation the human way?
How to involve employees in a business transformation the human way?
How to ensure long term success in a business transformation the human way?

Jens Heitland 4/27/22 Jens Heitland 4/27/22

EP 165: The window to the world - HIQA- Katharina Mormann interviewing Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

Last week I was interviewed by Katharina Mormann from Aragón Exterior here in Zaragoza Spain

Aragon Exterior is the Foreign Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of the Regional Government of Aragón, Spain.

Katharina established a Webinar / Podcast called La Ventana al Mundo - the window to the world

Enjoy the Q&A Moderated by Katharina Mormann

Jens Heitland 4/22/22 Jens Heitland 4/22/22

EP 163: How to build an innovation System for a company? - HIQA live with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build an innovation System for a company?

Because this is a complex topic I have created a PDF that supports visually what I explain.

The 4 parts I explain are:

Problem

What do we want to solve and why?

Sourcing

What are the ideas and solutions we want to test?

Validating

What solution is valuable to scale?

Scaling

How to measure and secure success long term

Jens Heitland 4/14/22 Jens Heitland 4/14/22

EP 161: How to build Innovation Culture? - HIQA live with Jens Heitland

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build innovation Culture?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

What is innovation culture?
How to build an innovation culture?
Why does a company benefit from an innovation culture?
How to build an innovation lab?
What is the difference between innovation and entrepreneurship?
How to build an innovation strategy?
Innovation Culture vs Innovation Management

Jens Heitland 2/9/22 Jens Heitland 2/9/22

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.

Jens Heitland 11/8/21 Jens Heitland 11/8/21

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.