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 fosters a dynamic Community of Practice to drive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective growth in strategic foresight and futures thinking, empowering professionals to shape the future through continuous engagement and experiential learning.
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.
Through Techistential, its strategic foresight practice and commercial arm, the Disruptive Futures Institute ensures its ideas are applied in real-world environments. This creates a closed-loop system where theory, application, and feedback continuously inform one another.
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 & Conferences
Board, Leadership & Investor Retreats
Books, Research & Publications
Interested in our bespoke programs, pricing, or booking any of our executive education, keynotes, or courses? Please inquire now:
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:
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: A comprehensive four-volume set packed with proprietary frameworks, tools, and strategies.
Disrupt With Impact: Roger Spitz’s latest award-winning bestseller, your compass for exploring the uncharted waters of the future.
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 also received the 2024 Chanticleer International Best Book Awards, Harvey Chute Category Winner for Non-Fiction Business & Enterprise, the highly respected 2024 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award - Bronze, Business & Economics, and the 2025 Readers Favorite Book of the Year Award - Bronze, Business & Finance.
“Exceptionally well written, organized and presented… an extraordinary and recommended addition to reading lists.” — Midwest Book Review
The Disruptive Futures Institute continues to receive international recognition, reflecting the growing demand for new operating systems and futures fluency in today’s increasingly complex environments.
Accolades for the Disruptive Futures Institute
Top-ranked thought leadership: Thinkers360 Top 50 Innovation Thought Leader Award (2025), appointed to World Economic Forum’s invitation-only community of foresight leaders, and with work in global systemic risk recognized by the Cascade Institute.
Award-winning publications: Includes The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption (acclaimed 4-volume series) and Disrupt With Impact (2024 Chanticleer International Best Book Award; Foreword Indies Bronze Winner; 2025 Readers’ Favorite Bronze Winner).
Reimagining Futures Studies with Innovative Toolkits: Roger Spitz has delivered 500+ keynotes to 100,000+ leaders across six continents and 40+ countries. Thousands more have been reached through the Disruptive Futures Institute’s executive programs, workshops, and masterclasses.
The Pioneering AAA Framework: The AAA Framework (Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility) is a cornerstone of the Institute's future-readiness approach, used globally to bridge the persistent “foresight-impact gap.” The Disruptive Futures Institute prioritizes action over abstraction.
Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence: Research and education center exploring AI ethics, governance, and societal impact - introducing Techistentialism, a philosophical framework coined by Roger Spitz to examine humanity’s agency in an AI-driven world.
Case Studies & Global Implementation: Field-tested frameworks applied globally - from reshaping Brazil’s voluntary carbon markets, to informing heat governance futures in Sydney, to contributing applied frameworks in Anticipatory Governance: Shaping a Responsible Future.
The Disruptive Futures Institute reaffirms its mission: to help leaders master the language of disruption and unpredictability. It does so by building ecosystems, developing evidence-based tools, and creating proprietary IP that equips changemakers to co-create futures of resilience, relevance, and regenerative value.
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