Human Innovation with Jens Heitland · 2026-05-14 · 31 min
What happens to leadership when the world around it keeps accelerating? In this episode, the conversation moves across three connected pressures facing leaders right now: the rise of AI inside organizations, the noise and polarization coming from the outside world, and the slow erosion of basic human connection at work. Faris Aranki has spent years working with senior executive teams on strategy and how they function together. He brings a ground-level view of what is actually happening inside boardrooms, not what leaders say about AI, but how they are really responding to it. The gap between deciding on AI and understanding it is wider than most organizations want to admit. One affects momentum. One affects trust. One determines whether the change actually holds. When leaders avoid engaging with the tools they are deploying, teams feel it. When organizations change everything at once, they break. When human connection gets optimized away, the foundation quietly disappears.
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