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 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 10/29/21 Jens Heitland 10/29/21

EP 117: Disruptive Innovation

Sanjay Bhargava Space X Country Director India leading Starlink on disruptive innovation, how we solve global challenges and more.

In our discussion Sanjay tells stories of disruptive innovation individually, as a business, and as a country. He shares his passion for upward mobility and ways of working towards prosperity.

Jens Heitland 9/20/21 Jens Heitland 9/20/21

EP 103: Systems innovation

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Jennifer Wilde and Dan McClure, founders of the company Innovation Ecosystem. Together we explore their story, systems innovation and how they use it to solve big problems in the world and more.

Jens Heitland 8/31/21 Jens Heitland 8/31/21

EP 90: Innovate your date

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with

Sabina Iman Founder of Blink. Blink is a dating app that enables people present in the same venue match and meet instantly. Sabina is sharing her story the entrepreneurial roller coaster how she developed the dating app Blink and many more stories.

Jens Heitland 7/7/21 Jens Heitland 7/7/21

Ep 28: Innovation in refugee camps

Connecting the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Jonas Engberg Jonas is the Director of Partnerships & Innovation at CARE Denmark

CARE is a non for profit organization and a global leader dedicated to ending poverty.