human innovation - The Jens Heitland Show

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By: Jens Heitland

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
#223
05/23/2023

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.


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EP 222: Rehumanize Leadership with Hamza Khan
#222
05/15/2023

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
#221
04/30/2023

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
#220
04/24/2023

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
#219
04/17/2023

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
#218
04/11/2023

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
#217
04/03/2023

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
#216
03/27/2023

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
#215
03/20/2023

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
03/13/2023

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.

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Niklas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-begau/

Cielo on LinkedIn: https://www.l...