About the Institute
Based in San Francisco, the Disruptive Futures Institute pioneers futures intelligence, offering strategic foresight, practitioner research, and education to empower you to shape your futures in our unpredictable world.
Founded by globally renowned futurist Roger Spitz, the Disruptive Futures Institute has developed proprietary methodologies and frameworks that are adopted by organizations worldwide.
The Disruptive Futures Institute provides thought leadership, executive education, and strategy advice globally through four integrated pillars:
Futures Intelligence & Capabilities: We help you develop and scale futures skills, foresight capabilities, and anticipatory practices through executive education, workshops, and research based on the Disruptive Futures Institute’s methodology. In addition to insightful talks, courses, and masterclasses, our Futurist-in-Residence model provides ongoing support for capabilities development.
Strategic Foresight Advisory - Techistential: A global leader in strategic foresight, we advise leadership teams, boards, investors, and policymakers on anticipatory governance, systems innovation, resilience, and sustainable value creation. Enriched by continuously updated real-world case studies, our proprietary frameworks power our cutting-edge learning programs.
DFI Nature & Climate Academy: Our flagship education center for sustainable futures, focusing on climate foresight, decarbonization strategies, and the energy transition.
Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence: Research and education on AI’s impacts, governance, and ethics, exploring the future of artificial intelligence and decision-making in our technological world.
Building on his bestselling books and global recognition as the foremost authority on systemic disruption, Roger Spitz is committed to helping organizations and changemakers develop futures intelligence, drive systems innovation, and create sustainable value.
The Disruptive Futures Institute is the only global education platform designed to help you Thrive on Disruption. We integrate cutting-edge research, proprietary frameworks, and hands-on experience from our strategic foresight practice to empower organizations and individuals.
Our approach blends real-world case studies with transformative educational experiences to address key areas of foresight, innovation, and sustainable change. Updated continuously with our latest insights, we have a holistic focus across:
Anticipatory Practices: Corporate & Strategic Foresight to anticipate and shape the futures.
Sustainable Futures: Climate Foresight & Sustainable Value Creation for long-term impact and resilience.
Transformative Change: Complexity, Systems Thinking & Virtuous Tipping Points to disrupt with positive impact.
Anticipatory Governance: Board, Leadership, & Investor Foresight Practice to steer organizations through unpredictability.
Technology Foresight: Emerging Technologies, Design Fiction & Systems Innovation to create new possibilities.
Techistentialism: Ethical & Existential Foresight for shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence and decision-making.
Agency & Storytelling: Shaping the futures through effective narratives.
Philosophy & Zen Buddhism: To leverage invention, impact, and meaning, through Existential & Eastern philosophies.
Disruption is no longer merely a single or recurring event, but a steady state, expanding its impact. In short, while disruption has always existed, it is now disrupting itself.
Learn the Language of Disruption
The Disruptive Futures Institute helps you master the language of systemic disruption, using our proprietary methodologies and frameworks. As the world’s capital for understanding change and unpredictability, the Disruptive Futures Institute educates through:
Executive Education & Advisory
Courses & Masterclasses
Keynote Talks, Panels & Fireside Chats
Custom Workshops
Board, Leadership & Investor Retreats
Books, Research & Publications
Our Publications
Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
Navigate confidently through uncertain futures to thrive in unpredictability. This bestselling book is your compass for exploring the uncharted waters of the future. It tackles major challenges such as artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, the energy transition, cybersecurity, and geopolitics. These paradigm shifts will redistribute trillions of dollars, creating immense opportunities for value creation - while those who cling to business as usual risk significant value destruction.
Through fascinating research, original frameworks, and the never-before-seen proprietary Disruptive Thinking Canvas™, Disrupt With Impact offers a new operating system updated for today’s changing world, rejecting outdated playbooks and empowering you to lead in unpredictable times.
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption
Our Seminal Four-Volume Guidebook. Published by the Disruptive Futures Institute, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is an acclaimed four-volume series that expands the way we think about navigating uncertainty. By broadening our perspectives, it shifts mindsets and reframes the narrative around systemic disruption.
Drawing from the Disruptive Futures Institute’s extensive research, methodologies, and frameworks, these comprehensive guides are a system of content which cut through the buzzwords and hype. Instead, these Guidebooks offer actionable strategies, extensive tools, and practical resources across a wide range of topics—helping you, your projects and business stay relevant and thrive in our disruptive world.
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