human innovation - The Jens Heitland Show
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. To find out more, visit our show notes at https://www.jensheitland.com. © All Content 2020-2023 Human Innovation - The Jens Heitland Show
EP 223: Tune your career with Fatemah Mirza
Fatemah Mirza is a Certified Resume Master who has been helping job seekers with their resumes for the past 13 years. She owns a company named CareerTuners. CareerTuners is a small team of skilled professionals from various industries who specialize in providing professional resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles, and much more career-related services to help ambitious people land their dream jobs and achieve career goals.
In this episode we talk about how to find the right job for you, how to prepare for a job interview, negotiate your salary and more.
EP 222: Rehumanize Leadership with Hamza Khan
Hamza Khan is a well-known keynote speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning entrepreneur. He is recognized for his TEDx talk "Stop Managing, Start Leading," which has been viewed over two million times. Khan advocates for rehumanizing workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth, inspiring purposeful productivity, nurturing lasting resilience, and navigating constant change.
In this episode we explore the future of work, Hamza shares more about his experience after the TED Talk and we discuss needed leadership changes and how we build a more human centered world.
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EP 221: Beat Burnout with Jimmy Burroughes
Jimmy Burroughes is on a mission to change the way we lead teams. With years of experience as an Officer in the British Military and a track record of success as a people leader in top global organizations, Jimmy knows what it takes to build a high-performance culture that delivers results.
He realized that traditional approaches to leadership and high-performance team programs were leaving leaders and teams burned out, disengaged, and underperforming.
This is his second appearance after episode 179 where we go deep into his new book Beat burnout ignite performance
EP 220: Pushing Limits Leadership Inspiration from Ultra Distance Athletes with Bryan Gillette
Bryan Gillette is a long-distance runner and cyclist who has pushed himself beyond physical and mental limits in various self-supported tours and races. He completed a 205-mile run around Lake Tahoe in 76 ½ hours with only 90 minutes of sleep.
His experiences in endurance sports have led him to write a book titled "EPIC Performance." In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Gillette has also found success in the business world. He founded Summiting Group, a company that coaches executives and advises leaders on performing at higher levels for themselves and their teams. Gillette lives in the San Francisco Bay Ar...
EP 219: [Interview]Biohacking - Entrepreneurs perspective with Bijou Finney
Bijou Finney is a Brand Stylist™, and holistic guide specializing in visionary life design for conscious entrepreneurs. She produced the Netflix documentary the Gentleman driver where entrepreneurs driver race cars around the world. Her cutting-edge therapeutic process teaches business owners how to use psychedelics and healing practices, retrain their nervous systems and clear limiting mental blocks. In our conversation we talk about how she helps entrepreneurs remove mental blocks, the benefit of microdosing and the holistic approach of biohacking. Guest Links: Bijou on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bijoulea-finney-47543767/ Website: https://www.storyxstyle.com/ Bijou on Instagram: https://www.in...
EP 218: [Interview] 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 Guest Links: Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.l...
EP 217: [Interview]Money mindset for founders with Gabbie Kelly
Gabbie Kelly has a background in financial auditing, corporate accounting, and serving clients as a fractional CFO, she has a wealth of experience in the financial industry. However, what she finds missing is the opportunity to help business owners navigate their day-to-day operations and make informed decisions that are critical to their success.Gabbie wants to make a difference, providing the tools and knowledge that business owners need to thrive. In this podcast episode we talk about personal budgeting of money, how startups and businesses should approach money and the right mindsets. Guest Links: Gabbie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.c...
EP 216: [Interview] Giving real people a platform - Ken Stearns
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. W...
EP 215: [Interview] Pay it forward - leadership with Dr. Kevin Gazzara
Dr. Kevin Gazzara is the CEO of Magna Leadership Solutions. He is Management & Leadership Expert, Executive Positive Intelligence Coach, Professor at 5 Universities, Speaker and Author of The Leader of OZ.
Kevin worked for 18 years at Intel Corporation in positions from Program and Product Management to Leadership Development. He holds a Bachelor in Science in Commerce and Engineering, an MBA and a Doctorate of Management in Organizational Leadership.
In our conversation we cover 3 key points.
A leadership view at the mass layoffs in tech early 2023 and what that means for organizations, leaders a...EP 2014: [Interview] Innovating chocolate experiences with Cielo Cantoni and Niklas Begau
Cielo and Niklas are the founders of ChocNchoc a chocolate startup that is changing the way how we experience chocolate.
Both of them grew up in large corporations like Jacobs and Mars and they still work next to running their chocolate startup.
In this episode learn about innovating chocolate, how the idea of ChocNchoc came to life and how they got a chocolate factory in Switzerland to produce their first products.
Guest Links:
Niklas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-begau/
Cielo on LinkedIn: https://www.l...
EP 213: [Interview] Personal branding through podcasts with Jason Cercone
Jason is a podcast branding strategist, author, voice over talent, and experienced podcaster. He helps people establish authority and become thought leaders in their niche via strategic, impactful podcast guest appearances. He is also The Voice of Evolution of Brand, a podcast featuring authentic entrepreneurs and professionals sharing brand-building strategies to help you succeed in your professional pursuits, as well as a contributing author to the best-selling PodMatch Guest Mastery book.
In this episode we talk about podcasting, the benefits of building a brand, thought leadership, why you should go on podcasts as a...
EP 212: [Interview] Human Centered Leadership Jem Fuller
Jem Fuller has lived a colorful, global life. From barefoot backpacker to corporate leader, fire-dancer and traditional tattooist, kindergarten teacher to motorcycle courier, masseuse and reflexology to laborer and travel consultant.
Now his time is as partner and father, coach, facilitator and retreat leader. He is the author of the recently published book, The Art of Conscious Communication for Thoughtful Men, and can be seen delivering his TEDx talk on YouTube.
Links to the Guest:
Webpage: https://jemfuller.com/
Ted Talk: https://youtu...
EP 211: [Interview] Track your wealth - David Martinez de Lecea
David Martinez de Lecea is a Consultant, entrepreneur and investor with a unique combination of business management expertise and deep technological acumen focused on Artificial Intelligence. David is Founder and CEO of the Startup Exirio the wealth insight app.
In this episode we talk about investment tracking, how Exirio works and how people like me can benefit through Exirio. Furthermore we talk about how he has built the startup and what he learned on the way.
Guest Links:
David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlecea/
EP 210: [Interview] Innovate your life by design - Shana Francesca
Shana Francesca is a speaker, writer and entrepreneur and is also known as author, Maeve Marin. Shana helps people live more joyful and connected lives through the principles Of life design. Shana believes our present and future are transformed when we infuse our lives with intention, we design our lives and realize the power in accepting ourselves as the author of our story.
In this episode Shana and I talk about life design, the impact of life design on innovation and leadership.
Guest Links:
Web: https://www.concinnate.world/
In...
EP 209: [Interview] Artificial Intelligence- How ChatGTP transforms Education with Dr. Mfon Akpan
Dr. Mfon Akpan Assistant Professor, Accounting Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
This is his 3rd appearance on the podcast after Episode 92 and 194
In this episode we talk about the Artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGTP, how it works, the impact of it in education and more AI.
Links to the guest:
Mfon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfon-akpan-5702325/
Mfon's website: https://mfonakpan.com/
Mfon on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MFONHELPSACCOUNTING
Link to the show:<...
EP 208: [Solo] Stakeholder pitch - How to win the buy in of internal stakeholders before you start prototyping- Jens Heitland
Welcome to HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered
Today we will cover the topic of winning stakeholders before you start prototyping an idea inside of your innovation funnel.
Links to today's show:
More about the phases in the Podcast Episode 163: How to build a Innovation System here
https://www.jensheitland.com/podcasthome/ep-163-how-to-build-an-innovation-system-for-a-company
Episode 206- Engaging with Stakeholders in the strategize phase:
https://www.jensheitland.com/podcasthome/ep-206-innovation-strategy-gathering-hiqa
Human Innovation Academy: https://www.heitlandinnovation.com/human-innovation-academy
Heitland Innovation: https://www.h...
EP 204: [Interview] Teenage Innovators - Hugo Pickford-Wardle on teenage innovation programs and startups run by teenagers
Hugo Pickford-Wardle is a social entrepreneur on a mission to help the next generation start their careers with the skills to bring their ideas to life and financial freedom to pursue those ideas.
He is the founding Sherpa of Startup Sherpas where he teaches teenagers innovation so they can bring their ideas to life.
Guest Links:
Hugo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugopickfordwardle/
Startup Sherpas: https://startupsherpas.org/
Link to the show:
EP 206: [Solo] Innovation Strategy gathering - HIQA-Human Innovation Questions Answered with Jens Heitland
Welcome to HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered
Today we will cover the topic of Strategy gathering as part of preparing for Scenario workshops which will enable an organization to find out what problems the innovation team will focus on.
Links to today's show:
More about the phases in the Podcast Episode 163: How to build a Innovation System here:
https://www.jensheitland.com/podcasthome/ep-163-how-to-build-an-innovation-system-for-a-company
Human Innovation Academy: https://www.heitlandinnovation.com/human-innovation-academy
H...
EP 205: [Interview] Innovation Capabilities - Natalie Turner
Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist with over 25 years of experience working as a corporate innovation director, business consultant, and entrepreneur. She has worked with some of the world's leading organizations, including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, to help them build innovation systems, culture, and capabilities, as well as generate new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses.
As the founder of The Entheo Network, based in Singapore, Natalie has made her passion for purpose and people-driven innovation practical as well as inspirational, elevating people's thinking...
EP 204: [Interview] The superpower of art - Michaell Magrutsche
Austrian-Californian multimedia Artist, creative and awareness educator, author of 5 books, podcaster, speaker, coach, former Newport Beach CA arts commissioner
In our wide ranging conversation Michaell shares how to build awareness and engage with your human superpowers
Guest Links:
Michael on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellart/
Website: https://michaellm.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoYLf4psWlWvtBYPksHAIw
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/michaellart
Link to the show:
Please find all resources like vid...
EP 203: [Interview] Bulls and Apes: A Guide to Web 3 with Anthony Mongiello
Anthony Mongiello is a professional with over 20 years of experience in the corporate world, specifically in the commercial property and casualty insurance industry, working for large organizations like Excel and AXA. He has experience in delivering strategy and transformation, working on mergers and acquisitions, and has spent a lot of time in the finance and technology sectors, focusing on disruptive technologies.
Anthony was intrigued by the concept of web3 and the community aspect of it, and began volunteering his time on different projects, realizing the potential of the technology and community.
However, he also recognized t...
EP 203: [Interview] Reprogramming success - Victor Manzo
Victor Manzo is a Business Mindset Coach, Certified Pediatric Chiropractor, Podcaster and Speaker.
He is the author of 3 books, with the most recent one being, "Decoding The Matrix: Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Potential and Accelerating Your Spiritual Awakening"
Dr. Vic has helped 100s of entrepreneurs learn how to create their dream life and lead a fulfilled life effortlessly through sharing principles of living in the Quantum world.
Guest Links:
Victor on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmanzo/
Business: https://www.empoweryourreality.com/
Twitter: https://t...
EP 201: [Interview] Leadership Fundamentals - Peter Anderton about the two rules of leadership
Peter works as Executive Coach and a High Performance Team Engineer. He is a public speaker and has spoken at tedx at the time of the recording the ted talk has 1,5 million views.
In our conversation Peter shares the 2 rules of leadership and we explore how the rules can be applied by leaders.
Guest Links:
Peter on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-anderton/
Website: https://peteranderton.com/
Inspirometer: https://theinspirometer.com/
EP 200: [Interview] Author your own life - AJ Greenberg on memories, and how to document your life collaboratively
AJ Greenberg is the Co-founder of Biograph. A platform where you can document your memories in voice, text, video, photo and can utilize this data to tell your story.
In this episode we talk about the importance of storytelling, memories, his experience in writing memoirs and the power of documenting your life.
Guest Links:
AJ on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-greenberg/
Biograph: https://www.biographbook.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC17aZNb4iEnwPAIihTLY6Kw
Link to...
EP 199: Focus your intelligence - How emotional intelligent leaders build business strategies with Faris Aranki
Faris Aranki is the CEO of Shiageto Consultancy. Shiageto helps their clients to fundamentally solve complex problems with senior stakeholders, designing solutions that are right for individual businesses and engaging across organizations to turn complexity into business-as-usual.
Our wide ranging conversation covers emotional intelligence for Leaders, building strategies, how Faris got onto a billboard in London and many more nuggets.
Guest Links:
Faris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farisaranki/
Business: https://www.shiageto.com/
Faris Blog: https://farisaranki.medium.com/
L...
EP 198: Startup funding - How performance-based equity will accelerate a startup with Chris Joyce
Chris Joyce is the founder of 24 companies in high tech, consumer goods, health, and manufacturing. His products have been sold in more than 11,000 stores in 23 countries. He has users of his tech products in 148 countries across the globe. His newest venture is Gusher. Gusher helps Entrepreneurs to build startups without raising capital.
In this episode Chris shares what he learned by building 24 companies, what worked and what did not. We talk about the common mistakes of first time founders and how to avoid them. Finally we talk about the difficulties of funding a startup and how founders c...
EP 197: Leadership is a choice - SUCCEED Leaders Chat with Ricardo Rosa
Experienced Leader Ricardo Rosa, Head of Innovation Sonae Sierra shared how he is leading people, how he would like to be lead and more perspectives of his leadership journey.
Guest Links:
Ricardo on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-rosa-035a15/
Sonae Sierra: https://www.sonaesierra.com/corporate/en-gb
SUCCEED is a platform that is focussed to bring leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030.
As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where we do webinars and Q&As with different interesting people
EP 196: Collaborate to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030
Enjoy me answering the following questions:
How do I motivate a team member?How do you generate collaboration in a matrix organization?How do I give negative feedback?Our company is very hierarchical. I feel like I don't have a voice. How can I get the management to listen?How do I build my network in a matrix organization?How to develop a team member to perform...EP 195: Ask and Lead to SUCCEED- Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030
Enjoy me answering questions around leadership.
SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
Link to the show:
Please find all resources like video, audio, show notes and as well some shorter clips of the episode at https://www.jensheitland.com/
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If you enjoy this podcast would you be so kind as...
EP 194: Skills Mindset - Why defense is necessary and offense is mandatory with Dr. Mfon Akpan
This episode is a recording from the SUCCEED Platform where Dr. Mfon Akpan joined me to teach people on the skills mindset.
Dr. Mfon Akpan is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Methodist University in Carolina. He is teaching his students in different ways than I have experienced myself.
Or did you have a professor who is deep into TikTok, Snapchat and the newest tech and knows how to use e.g. Instagram lives to teach students?
SUCCEED is a platform that is focussed to bring leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030.
A...
EP 193: Delegate to lead - Ask to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.
As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.
Enjoy me answering questions around leading others.
SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
Link to the show:
Please find all...
EP 192: Leading through trust - Ask to SUCCEED - Live Q&A with Jens Heitland
This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.
At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.
As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.
Enjoy me answering questions around leading myself.
SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
Link to the show:
Please find all resources like...
EP 191: Grease or Grit? - Occupational Licensing with Morris Kleiner
Morris M. Kleiner is professor and AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He also teaches at the University's Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies. He has received many teaching awards and has served as an expert on labor issues to government, labor, nonprofits, and business.
He has published extensively in the top academic journals in labor economics and industrial relations, and is the author, co-author, or co-editor of nine books.
Kleiner is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been...
EP 190: Lead to SUCCEED - HIQA with Jens Heitland
Announcing a new Startup that is democratizing Leadership Education.
In this episode I will go deeper into the background of SUCCEED.
What is the mission, the problem we want to solve and more.
Explore SUCCEED: https://www.wearesucceed.com/
#leadandsucceed
Link to the show:
Please find all resources like video, audio, show notes and as well some shorter clips of the episode at https://www.jensheitland.com/
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EP 189: Innovating E-commerce - Jörg Heinemann on innovating e-commerce building a fishing mail order company and corporate innovation
Jörg is driving Innovation and Digitization for one of Europe’s most successful E-Commerce companies based in Germany. His favorite topics are IoT, Smart Home and Conversational Commerce. He founded a fishing mail order company in 1999 and since then loves E-Commerce, Marketing and Digitization since that time..
In this episode we talk about technology and tech innovation. Jörg shares his experience of visiting IFA Berlin and we talk about e-commerce innovation in corporations and the challenges of the German culture for innovation.
Guest Links:
Jörg on linkedin...
EP 188: How not to lead - HIQA with Jens Heitland
HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered
In this episode I let the listener look into my big list of things I have written down during the last 20 years that I did not like about how people lead me.
I call this list how I will not lead. I am looking at this list at least once per year to remind myself about all the topics.
Topics I cover:
I will not micromanage my teamI will not jump in and solve every problemI will...EP 187: Yes, you can innovate - Natalie Turner on leadership development, corporate innovation and talents
Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist having spent over 25 years working as a corporate innovation director, a business consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organizations including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, helping them build innovation systems, culture and capabilities as well as generating new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses.
As Founder of The Entheo Network, based out of Singapore, she has made her passion for purpose and people driven innovation practical as well as ins...
EP 186: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team? - HIQA Live with Jens Heitland
HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered
The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team?
Questions I answered in the live show:
What is the right org setup for innovation?How do I find the right people for innovation?Do I need to lead innovators differently?How do I train people to innovate?If you have questions to the topic or questions you want me to cover in one of the next live shows, please send them to me...
EP 185: Human Centered Design - Adam Billing on innovating through design thinking, design fiction and innovation impact assessments.
Adam is the founder of Treehouse Innovation, a London-based innovation consultancy. He specializes in collaborative design, innovation, design thinking, creativity and cross-boundary collaboration. He has led numerous innovation projects and design events for global organizations across sectors. In addition, he has designed and delivered learning programmes with leading business schools including Cambridge University, Imperial College London, Rice University and others.
He is the author/co-author of several published works (IBA, Managing Partner, CIPD, Others) focused on strategy, innovation, and learning with special focus on the professional services industries.
Adam has...
EP 184: Corporate Innovation - How can human innovation change business results? - HIQA Live with Jens Heitland
HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered
The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How can human innovation change business results?
Questions I answered in the live show:
Because of covid it is all about saving costs right now in our company. How can I still innovate?
Everyone talks about innovation in our company but all we do are small improvements rather than real innovation. How to change that?
I am a new leader in an o...
