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Roger Spitz

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Johannesburg, South Africa

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Roger Spitz (M.Sc., FCA, APF) is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute based in San Francisco. Spitz has given hundreds of keynotes globally, frequently contributes across leading media, and guest lectured at many of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions.

Spitz has two decades of leading investment banking and venture capital businesses. He advises CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders on their most strategic decisions, evaluating their organizations' competitiveness and identifying disruptions ahead. He sits on several advisory boards of companies, climate councils, VC funds & academic institutions worldwide.

A world-leadin Roger Spitz (M.Sc., FCA, APF) is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute based in San Francisco. Spitz has given hundreds of keynotes globally, frequently contributes across leading media, and guest lectured at many of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions.

Spitz has two decades of leading investment banking and venture capital businesses. He advises CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders on their most strategic decisions, evaluating their organizations' competitiveness and identifying disruptions ahead. He sits on several advisory boards of companies, climate councils, VC funds & academic institutions worldwide.

A world-leading authority on foresight, sustainability, and transformative change, Spitz develops and teaches Strategic Foresight & System Innovation programs, and has written four influential books as part of “The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption” collection, which became an instant classic. Spitz lectures and publishes extensively on anticipatory leadership, futures capabilities and decision-making in complex unpredictable environments, with bestselling books in Future Studies, Green Business, Sustainable Economic Development, Business Education, Strategic Management & Forecasting.

Spitz's renowned strategic foresight practice, advises boards, leadership teams and investors on sustainable value creation. He developed the Disruptive Futures Institute and its DFI Sustainability & Climate Academy into preeminent global education centers that help organizations build capacity for futures intelligence, resiliency, and system innovation. Spitz is an industry-recognized expert, writer, speaker and investor in AI, he chairs the Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence, and is known for coining the term "Techistentialism".

Spitz is the Foresight & Sustainability partner of Vektor Partners (Palo Alto, London), an impact VC firm investing in the future of mobility. As former Global Head of Technology M&A with BNP Paribas, Spitz advised on over 50 transactions with deal value of $25bn. He launched the bank’s US M&A practice in San Francisco and built its European Technology & Digital Investment Banking franchises in London & Paris.

Bilingual in English & French, Spitz lived in 10 different cities across three continents. ...more

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	The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption by Roger Spitz (Goodreads Author), Lidia Zuin 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty by Roger Spitz (Goodreads Author), Lidia Zuin 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation by Roger Spitz (Goodreads Author), Lidia Zuin 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World by Roger Spitz (Goodreads Author), Lidia Zuin 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Techistentialism studies the nature of human beings, existence, and decision-making in our technological world.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: artificial-intelligence, decision-making, existentialism, foresight, technology

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“Alignment is an evolutionary process, which involves continuous questioning and searching.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: alignment, innovation, searching

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“Disruption is generally neither new nor bad; it is simply accelerating. The world’s fundamental paradigms are increasingly changing.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

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“Today, we are faced with profound questions on the most fundamental features of our world, about the essence of existence and human life in the not-so-distant future.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: essence-of-life, existential, existentialism, humanity, humanity-quotes

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tags: change, disruption, disruption-quotes

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“With time, all assumptions magnify and amplify; wrong assumptions cascade and blow up.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: assumptions, assumptions-quote, foresight

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“If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder. We must create innovative, fluid, and adventurous mindsets as well as social and economic networked ecosystems that strengthen from stress, random events, and shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

tags: antifragility, economics, innovation, relevance

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“People will deem certain new ideas impossible, until they become part of everyday life.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: change, exponential-growth, impossible, innovation

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