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Heitland Media Group

Humans make the difference.

Technology changes how we work. Human judgement, courage and relationships determine what we do with it. We believe people who share their opinions and stand behind their thinking can influence those around them and drive change in the world.

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We help executives turn their expertise into recognised authority and relationships with people who can become customers, partners and advocates. By making their thinking verifiable and creating reasons for the right people to connect, we help open commercial conversations beyond their existing network. Our services, intelligence, digital capabilities, events and communities support the human behind that opportunity.

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Where authority becomes useful

HMG brings five distinct areas together around the human work of executive authority.

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Executive Authority Office

Help potential customers understand how your expertise relates to the decisions and challenges they face. Our flagship Executive Thought Leadership service connects your perspective to your company's business and marketing priorities, giving customers and partners a clearer basis for a commercial conversation. We manage research, conversation preparation, editorial work and production alongside your existing teams. You bring the judgement and approve what gets published.

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Executive Authority Dashboards

Explore the Executive Authority Dashboards

Focus your attention on the audiences and relationships that matter to your business. Intelligence across executive authority, LinkedIn activity, media coverage and social conversations helps you examine how your expertise is understood and where your content, campaigns and network support your commercial priorities. Use that insight to inform your strategy and next decisions, rather than pursue visibility for its own sake.

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Executive Authority Agents

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Put your time and expertise to work on the decisions and relationships that matter to your customers and business. Digital support for decisions, stories, voice, relationships, time management and positioning helps you prepare for important conversations and communicate the relevance of your expertise. Each capability serves a distinct need, with the potential to connect where useful. Your judgement directs the work.

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Executive Authority Events

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Create reasons to meet potential customers, partners and people whose experience can help you address business challenges. From executive round tables and Keynotes, and innovation summits, our event formats bring perspectives together around shared questions. The purpose is to exchange useful ideas and explore opportunities to work together, not simply to appear on a stage.

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Executive Authority Communities

Explore the Executive Authority Communities

Build relationships that help you learn from business challenges, understand different customer perspectives and explore opportunities to collaborate. Communities for executives, innovators, speakers and young entrepreneurs give those exchanges continuity beyond a single conversation or event. Contribute your experience and learn from others in ways you can apply to your business.

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Jens Heitland, founder and CEO of Heitland Media Group
Jens Heitland, founder and CEO of Heitland Media Group.

About the founder

Jens Heitland is the founder and CEO of Heitland Media Group and the former Global Head of Innovation at IKEA Centres. His experience inside large international organisations taught him how much credible thinking can remain hidden behind a company, especially when decisions involve several stakeholders, long sales cycles and important commitments.

In 2021, Jens lost his father. Later, while listening to old radio recordings with his daughter, he realised how much of his father's conviction and perspective had never been captured. It gave personal meaning to something he had seen professionally for years: leaders often leave records of achievement, but not records of judgement.

Jens created HMG to close that gap. Today, he hosts The Human Innovation, The Daily Hint and the European Perspective Podcast and leads HMG's strategic work. With a specialist team responsible for more than 1,000 produced podcast episodes, he helps executives make their thinking available to the people who need to understand it.