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.
About the Institute
Known as the world’s capital for undertsanding systemic disruption and unpredictability, the Disruptive Futures Institute is a Think Tank based in San Francisco offering education, research, and thought leadership on adapting to our increasingly complex and uncertain world.
Founded in 2020 by bestselling author and leading foresight strategist Roger Spitz, the Disruptive Futures Institute draws on proprietary frameworks and pioneers practical educational insights integrating its research and publications across:
Foresight Strategy & Futures Studies
Complexity & Systems Thinking
Climate Intelligence & Climate Foresight
Artificial Intelligence & Exponential Technologies
Innovation, Design Thinking & Science Fiction
Philosophy & Zen Buddhism
Mastering Disruption & Uncertainty
In an age where disruption is no longer merely a single or recurring event but has become a steady state, the Institute helps you understand, anticipate, and navigate disruption. By leveraging our practical resources, you'll be able to make sense of this complex, nonlinear, unpredictable world. As a changemaker, you’ll be better equipped with tactical knowledge and skills to drive disruption by experimenting with more agency and imagination.
The Institute helps you learn the language of disruption. As the world’s capital for understanding disruption and uncertainty, the Disruptive Futures Institute educates through:
Executive Education
Keynotes, Masterclasses & Courses
Books, Research & Publications
Rethinking Governance Systems: From Boardrooms to Policymakers
Our Guidebook
The Disruptive Futures Institute is the publisher of the seminal Guidebook, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption.
All Volumes I, II, III & IV now available to purchase
Our Foresight Practice
The Disruptive Futures Institute has exclusive rights to use the practitioner foresight frameworks from Techistential, the global Foresight Strategy & Futures Intelligence practice based in San Francisco.
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