A Global Leader in Strategic Foresight

About Techistential

Based in San Francisco, Techistential is the global leader in Foresight Strategy & Futures Intelligence, and the advisory arm of the pioneering Disruptive Futures Institute.

Founded by visionary futurist Roger Spitz, Techistential advises global leadership teams, entrepreneurs, boards, investors, and policymakers on anticipatory governance, systems innovation, resilience, and driving sustainable value creation:

  • Anticipatory Practices: Corporate & Strategic Foresight

  • Futurist-in-Residence: Ongoing Capabilities Development

  • Sustainable Futures: Climate Foresight & Sustainable Value Creation

  • Transformative Change: Complexity, Systems & Virtuous Tipping Points

  • Anticipatory Governance: Board, Leadership & Investor Foresight Practice

  • Technology Foresight: Emerging Technologies, Design Fiction & Systems Innovation

  • Techistentialism: Artificial Intelligence, Ethical & Existential Foresight

Techistential’s renowned Board, Governance & Sustainability foresight practice works with anticipatory leaders and their organizations worldwide to capitalize on disruption as a springboard to creating value.

With decades of experience leading investment banking and venture capital, our preeminent foresight practice now advises CEOs, boards, and investors on evaluating strategy under uncertainty, anticipating disruptions, and driving sustainable value.

Leveraging the Disruptive Futures Institute’s proprietary frameworks and methodologies, adopted globally, Techistential helps clients anticipate the next-order impacts of accelerating change and rethink leadership and decision-making for the complex, unpredictable 21st century.

Don’t have a dedicated in-house foresight function?

With the Disruptive Futures Institute, we specialize in helping organizations build strategic foresight capabilities. We empower you to integrate futures intelligence into everyday decision-making. In today’s rapidly evolving world, mastering the art of futures thinking is an imperative.

Our Futurist-in-Residence model supports your teams in building the futures skills and foresight capacity needed to drive and sustain change.

Increasing Cost of Business as Usual

It’s no secret that we all make assumptions about the world around us. What’s changing is the rising cost of relying on those wrong assumptions.

With time, all assumptions magnify and amplify; wrong assumptions cascade and blow up.

As ‘rare’ becomes less rare, strategic foresight enables better preparation for future eventualities, fostering both resilience to shocks and the ability to shape new opportunities.

The surprise we experience from disruption is inversely tied to our anticipatory thinking, willingness to question, and preparedness.

Sustainable Futures Practice

Techistential’s dedicated Sustainable Futures Practice provides foresight-driven advice on systemic change including the global energy transition, which is creating paradigm shifts in value and business models.

The DFI Nature & Climate Academy is our flagship center for sustainable futures, focusing on climate foresight, decarbonization strategies, and the energy transition.

Disruptive Futures Institute

As Techistential’s sister organization, 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 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.

Our Publications

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:

“Exceptionally well written, organized and presented… an extraordinary and recommended addition to reading lists.” — Midwest Book Review

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