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Hosted by Jens Heitland · business · EN-US · 249 episodes
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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Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show is hosted by Jens Heitland. The show has published 249 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "EP271 - Sandra Silva & Jens Heitland: Growth Through Discomfort" (21 October 2026, 47 minutes), "EP270 - Jeff Helfgott on the Real Risks of Owning a Franchise" (13 October 2026, 45 minutes), and "EP269 - Stephen Brooks on Entrepreneurship, AI and Culture" (6 October 2026, 50 minutes).
Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 249 episodes.
Booking probability for Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show is 26%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show's contact route on record: verified email.
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Jens Heitland hosts Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show, a business show with 249 episodes published.
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Episode #271
Sandra Silva, CEO of Veolia Portugal, joins Jens Heitland to talk about growth through discomfort, the advice that shaped her early career, and the structures Veolia uses to develop its people, from a rotating trainee...
Episode #270
Jens Heitland speaks with Jeff Helfgott of Boardroom Salon for Men about franchising as a lower-risk way to own a business with more support. Jeff shares the realities of small business ownership that rarely make it to...
Episode #269
Stephen Brooks returns for his fourth one-on-one conversation with Jens Heitland, now back in Europe after more than fifteen years in the United States. Together they discuss the difference in business relationships on...
Episode #268
In this episode of the Human Innovation Podcast, recorded in The Hague, Jens Heitland sits down with Amit Kasliwal, founder of Dehurdle and former head of corporate sales for Ford Motor Company in India. Highlights...
Episode #267
Julia Wagner has planned her life for decades, since she was eighteen. In this episode, she talks with Jens Heitland about building a coworking space and software company in Spain, why Europe undervalues failure, and...
Episode #266
Ben Timpson spent thirteen years in the Royal Navy before building a career teaching CEOs and their teams how to communicate under pressure. He and Jens Heitland discuss what military briefing culture gets right that...
Episode #265
A shared apartment in Johannesburg. A career built across four continents. And a question that now shapes how organizations think about AI. Ross Rafahël sits down with Jens Heitland to talk about the difference between...
Episode #264
Tobias Tanner, founder of the co-retail platform Le Magasin, joins Jens Heitland to talk about the return of physical retail. The conversation covers his path from running a jazz label in New York to building a...
Episode #263
Edouard Leeuwenburg returns to Human Innovation to update Jens on life after OneFit and the AI sales tool he has built since. The conversation moves through the mechanics of driving change inside a large organization...
Episode #262
Christopher Filipiak works with CEOs on sales, and this conversation looks at why revenue rarely comes down to tactics alone. Jens and Christopher discuss the mindset behind CEO-level selling, the idea of a best-fit...
Episode #261
In this episode of Human Innovation, I sit down with Neil Pendle, founder of Waterscan, in Belgium. Neil built Waterscan from a single contract into one of the UK's leading water consulting firms, working with...
Episode #260
Kambiz Shekdar owns the platform technology behind Chromovert, a method for engineering cells that model human disease inside a lab dish. He built the company on customer funding alone, without venture capital, and is...
Episode #259
Jens Heitland speaks with Glenn Turner, CEO of RBS, a hospitality software company that has grown from around 140 properties in 2020 to nearly five thousand today. Glenn has spent decades inside hospitality and...
Episode #258
Saren Keang: A Life Built Against the Odds I had the chance to speak with Saren Keang in this episode. Her story runs through three countries, two health crises, and one pattern that repeats quietly across a generation...
Episode #257
What Europe's Latest Deals Reveal About Capital, Governance, and Speed Working across large organizations for close to thirty years, I have learned to watch for moments when two situations look similar on the surface...
Episode #256
What Immersive Theater Teaches Us About Building Future-Ready Organizations Six years ago, I recorded an episode with David Bassuk from opposite sides of a lockdown. This week we sat together again in the Netherlands...
Episode #255
John Glennane traveled from Dublin to The Hague to sit down with Jens Heitland, and the two spent two days talking about what actually holds a business together. John is the CEO of Capventis, a technology and design...
Human Innovation | The Jens Heitland Show
Seven major restructuring announcements landed across Europe in a single week, and Jens Heitland sits down with Stewart Guenther, Stephen Brooks, and Annette van Berge Henegouwen to work through what they actually mean...
Episode #253
Europe is moving. Most people are not noticing. In episode, Jens Heitland sits down with Stewart Guenther, Stephen Brooks, and Annette Van Berge Henegouwen to go through the biggest European business stories of the week...
Episode #252
Why Innovation in Large Organizations Has Almost Nothing to Do With Ambition A conversation with François Jacquemin There is a version of the innovation conversation that happens in boardrooms that sounds like this...
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