Ken Stearns is a grandfather, father, midwestern boy, writer, speaker, photographer, and lyricist.

He was an international insurance executive that quit to pursue his dreams of traveling the country meeting people, hearing their stories.

He hosts The Jar Live, a unique podcast that focuses on real people and real conversations.

His American upbringing, living in 5 countries, working in 20 over the last 20 years gives him a wide ranging view on life, people, travel, business, food, culture.

In our conversation we dive into the store of the Jar and how he got to record podcasts with strangers like Tom the Flower man. We talk about his book Dear God and explore how all of this will enable change in leadership in this world.

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

How the travel industry has to change their business model. Elena Rodríguez Blanco, Impact Investor, Travel Futurist,Speaker, Intl' Bestseller Author and Social Entrepreneur joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

We discuss entrepreneurial cultures and how young minds and the digital environment might contribute to them.

We discuss entrepreneurial cultures and how young minds and the digital environment might contribute to them.

This is a special edition of the Jens Heitland Show where I meet and talk with Joshua Nuttall about a Reverse Mentorship prototype that was initiated last year called the XYZ Playground.