Our Publications

At the Disruptive Futures Institute, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations worldwide navigate disruption through keynote talks, workshops, masterclasses, and tailored executive education programs. Now, our unique expertise is available in a series of acclaimed publications designed to empower leaders in unpredictable times:

Systemic disruption is reshaping industries and redistributing trillions of dollars, creating vast opportunities for those who can adapt. Yet, anyone who clings to business as usual risks significant value destruction.

Grounded in cutting-edge research, proprietary methodologies, and actionable insights, our publications provide more than just buzzwords. We reject outdated playbooks and give you a new, future-ready operating system to help you thrive in unpredictable times.

Both The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption and Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World are now included in numerous bibliographies for executive and academic programs. Case studies based on our frameworks have been developed and published in leading journals.

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.

Volume I - FOUNDATIONS. Reframing and Navigating Disruption:
How to make sense of our complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable world.

Volume II - FRAMEWORKS. Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty:
Practical frameworks to help you and your business stay relevant in the 21st century.

Volume III - YOUR LIFE.
Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World:
What does constant change and uncertainty mean to you as an individual?

Volume IV - YOUR BUSINESS. Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation:
What does our unpredictable, complex, and systemic world mean for you as a business?

Bulk Orders & Curriculum Support

We provide discounted pricing and tailored offerings for significant orders of The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption, including using our Guidebooks for academic or executive programs.

If you wish to discuss bulk orders or custom curriculum support, please reach out to info@disruptivefutures.org

The lead author of the four-volume magnum opus guidebooks is Roger Spitz in collaboration with Lidia Zuin. A foresight strategist, venture capitalist, and writer, Roger’s expertise at the intersection of futures studies, systems thinking, and sustainable value creation builds on 20 years leading investment banking businesses as Global Head of Technology M&A. Lidia is a journalist, science fiction writer, and professional futurist whose work is focused on innovation, emerging technology and trends, virtual reality, and gaming.

Roger Spitz

Lidia Zuin

“More than a book, what the world was asking us for was a practical field guide on how to navigate disruption and nonlinear change; a compass; a system of content, resources, and ideas on how to stay relevant in our complex and unpredictable world.”
- Roger Spitz, Chairman Disruptive Futures Institute

“If you’re looking for a book about disruption based on overused innovation examples, cliché corporate anecdotes, and trite observations about how “technology will save us,” this isn’t the book for you. ”

To flourish in this increasingly complex, unpredictable, and nonlinear environment, we must understand the velocity, trajectory, and magnitude of the underlying drivers of change, whether technological or otherwise. Doing so requires casting assumptions aside, throwing out the old playbooks, rewiring our mindset, embracing the unknown, and taking agency of our own futures.

The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption widens and deepens our perspectives, changes the narrative structure around uncertainty, and helps every reader understand, anticipate, and navigate disruption.

Guidebook Tools & Resources

The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is designed to be practical, filled to the brim with accessible toolkits, checklists, case studies, examples, and principles. We have designed hundreds of proprietary visuals throughout the Guide to translate the ideas and illustrate frameworks in a more relatable format

Check out a sample of a few of these visuals and toolkits on selected topics for you to download. This small selection is drawn from a total of over 500 unique illustrations, toolkits, and infographics throughout our Guidebook.