“While algorithms can calculate the probable, only humans can invent the impossible.”
Three questions, answered by the guru, checked by the research team. Not what they think. What they changed.
Boards, investors and governments still plan on forecasts and single-point probabilities while disruptions interact, amplify and cascade across sectors and borders. The cost shows up as strategies that break at the first shock and decisions delayed until data exists for a future that has not happened yet.
A set of proprietary frameworks built from Silicon Valley technology M&A and futures research: AAA (Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility) for foundations that strengthen through shocks, DECODE for structured foresight and anticipatory decisions, Metaruptions for reading systemic disruption, and Techistentialism for keeping human judgment in charge in the AI era.
More than 500 keynotes have put this work in front of over 100,000 leaders in 40+ countries. Beyond the stage, the frameworks are applied in advisory work with CEOs, boards, institutional investors and government leaders through Techistential and the Disruptive Futures Institute. They travel further through Duke Corporate Education, where Roger is on the faculty, and the World Economic Forum’s AI Global Alliance and Global Foresight Network, where he is a member.
Roger Spitz is President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco, where he advises CEOs, boards, institutional investors and government leaders on anticipating and navigating disruption. As Global Head of Technology M&A at BNP Paribas he led more than 50 transactions worth $25 billion and built the bank’s US M&A platform. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s AI Global Alliance and Global Foresight Network, a Venture Partner at Berkeley SkyDeck and Vektor Partners, on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, and writes an AI column for MIT Technology Review Brasil. Featured on CNN, Bloomberg and Fast Company. In 2026 Thinkers360 named him an Overall Top Voice, ranked him #6 among global thought leaders on Management, and placed him in its Top 50 for AI and AI Ethics and Top 100 for AI Governance. The Disruptive Futures Institute was named to its 50 Thought Leading Companies on Artificial Intelligence 2026.
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Four of the tools Roger’s clients use to reframe disruption, develop foresight and turn insight into action.
Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility: build foundations that strengthen through shocks and bridge present decisions with longer-term vision.
Define, Explore, Create, Option, Design and Enable: a six-step approach to possible futures and anticipatory decision-making.
Disruption 3.0: a multidimensional view of systemic disruption where forces interact, amplify and cascade across sectors, geographies and time horizons.
A framework connecting technology, existence and decision-making, with human agency at the centre of AI-era resilience.
Achieve business success in an unpredictable world. Winner of the 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards and 2024 Foreword INDIES, plus the 2025 Readers’ Favorite award. One of five bestselling books, alongside the four-volume The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption.
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