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 176: Incredible good content - Marina Specht on innovation in Marketing, leadership and mindset.
Marina Specht CEO of McCann WorldGroup Spain. She spent the first half of her career as an entrepreneur, building a successful branded content agency. The last 15 years she focused on digital marketing, data strategy and digital business transformation, driving innovation and bottom line growth for Fortune 500 companies
Marina was awarded:
#Ad Age Women to Watch 2016
#PWC Women to Watch 2017-18
#Top 100 Leading Women Spain 2021
Marina shared her story and the superpower behind her success, and of course we talked about the innovation and changes in marketing and businesses over the last decades.
EP 174: How to write a book as entrepreneur - Andrew Dupy on the importance of writing a book as an entrepreneur.
Andrew Dupy Chief Relationship Officer at Leaders Press, Author of the Book Don't buy the watch, joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship
Andrew shared his story, how he wrote his book and we explored the process of writing a book with the Leaders Press and the great potential for entrepreneurs.
EP 172: Future Impact Today - Sid Mofya about startups, investing personal development and music.
Sid Mofya, Executive Director at Draper Venture Network - a global alliance of our member funds, who are present on all continents, former Kauffman Fellow and musician joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Sid shared his story growing up in Sambia living in the UK and Tanzania before moving to Silicon Valley. We talk about which problems startups should solve, how startup founders develop, funding of startups and dive a bit into education and music.
EP 169: From intern to startup founder - Michael Wilkinson on his forming moments, startup funding and what he learned in a high paced startup environment
Michael Wilkinson Founder and COO @ Everything has an incredible background from starting as an intern at crowdcube.com where he successfully managed 100+ fundraises totalling £50m+ in his first assignment then launching his own consulting business supporting startups in fundraising and today being part of the founding team of Everything - the financial experience that younger generations actually want.
EP 168: Slow Sustainable Fashion - Frank Peralta on Circular Fashion Design
Frank Peralta Product Designer and former professional Basketball player. Frank works in the Automotive industry and discovered a circular opportunity to integrate materials from the automotive industry into fashion. We talk about his story and how he sees Peralta Clothing developing.
EP 164: Website Strategy - Ebonee Williams on websites for business and people
Ebonee Williams Website Strategist joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Ebonee helps women to succeed with a strategically built website. We explored her personal story working in fashion creating Ads for Mercedes Benz working as a journalist for ABC news in New York and how she thinks about websites, email marketing, traveling and more.
EP 164: Everyone is a company - Matheus Provinciali on entrepreneurship, professional football and startups
Matheus Provinciali, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manager of Start UB and Associate professor of the Barcelona University and former professional football player from brazil joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship
Of course we talk football and look into how he used the football skills to build his startup and teaches at Barcelona University. We explore the Concept of Start UB and how they support students to build startups.
EP 162: Global Poverty Elimination Lab - Sanjay Bhargava on a new global concept that can change the world
Sanjay Bhargava International Disruptive Innovation Expert joined me again after his appearance on Episode 117 Disruptive Innovation to explore a new concept about how all innovators can work together to eliminate poverty.
EP 160: People drive performance - Paul Teasdale on performance in motorsport and business
Paul Teasdale Performance Expert and former Operational Performance Specialist of McLaren joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Paul works with people and helps them to perform. He shared his experience from motorsport how performance in business can be structured through insights data and the key part of the human in this equation.
EP 158: Energize your life - Simon Alexander Ong
Simon Alexander Ong is an award winning Life and Executive Coach, Business Strategist, Motivational Speaker and Author. We explored his story of how he encountered difficult times in his life and how they enabled him to be who he is today. And we dove deeper into his book Energize - Find Your Spark, Achieve More and Live Better where he explained the story behind it, how he developed the 4 areas of the book, what the benefit for the readers will be and the process of him writing it.
EP 156: Leadership Development for Startups - Sina Landorff on leadership development for startup founders
Sina Landorff (Mrs. Positivity) Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach for Founders and Managers joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.
We explored how leaders can be developed in startups, the 10 skills of great leaders and we discussed the 5 key tips for every entrepreneur which she explains in more detail inside the episode.
EP 154 Innovate for impact - Ricardo Rosa on innovation in the commercial real estate industry
Ricardo Rosa Head of Innovation Sonae Sierra, an international Commercial Real Estate Company, joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.
In our conversation he shared his story of how he developed from one decade of working in marketing to running the innovation Department in Sonae Sierra. We talk about Innovation in the commercial real estate industry, changing areas inside of it and how he works with Innovation in Sonae Sierra.
EP 152 - Outcome driven Innovation - Tony Ulwick on the importance of the innovation process in corporations
Tony is the pioneer of Jobs-to-be-Done Theory, the inventor of the Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI) process, and the founder of strategy and innovation consulting firm Strategyn. Tony has applied his ODI process at some of the world’s leading companies and across nearly all industries to inform breakthrough innovations—achieving a success rate that is 5 times better than the industry average. Philip Kotler calls Tony “the Deming of innovation” and credits him with bringing predictability to innovation. Published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Tony is also the author of bestsellers What Customers Want and JOBS TO BE DONE: Theory to Practice.
EP 151 - Mental adaptation - Ivan Jimenez on corporate innovation, investing and the innovation ecosystem
Ivan Jimenez Head of Innovation at Mutualidad Abogacía and Seed Investor at BackFund joined me to talk about mental adaptation, corporate innovation and how corporations can work with startups.
EP 150: Think to innovate - Dr. Tobias Adam on Structured thinking, the creativity process and complex decision Making
Dr. Tobias Adam, CEO of Parmenides AG joined me to talk about the Creative Process, we explored how you can learn to think creatively to innovate and dove deeper into complex decision making.
EP 149: Helping People Think - Tamara Eberle on ideation, facilitation and great tools for innovators
Tamara Eberle Certified professional Facilitator with two decades of team leadership and organizational development experience joined me to talk innovation. We talked ideation, why the famous sticky notes are not always sign for being innovative and she shared tips and tricks for innovators to innovate.
EP 148: Innovation For Good - Marta Del Castillo about purpose driven organizations, innovation culture and doing good.
Marta del Castillo, CEO of Spain Startup - South Summit joined me to talk innovation.She shares her inspiring story from living on 4 continents in different circumstances. We I talk about the importance of purpose driven organizations , Female Leadership as the core skills and of course innovation in startups and corporates.
EP 147: Leadership Matters- Steve Baker on Leadership, Coaching and being coached, limiting beliefs and more.
Steve Baker Facilitator, Coach and Keynote speaker. Steve shared his story and experience working with great leaders as an employee and later as coach. We talked about company Culture, Leadership styles and Leadership capabilities.
EP 146: Radical Innovation - Alberto Rodríguez and Andrés Haddad about innovation space supporting corporations and startups.
Together we explore their stories, the innovation ecosystem and of course THE CUBE and how especially Andres and his teams use radical innovation to support companies. And how they learned from uber to build and operate a workation spot as THE CUBE extension.
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.