WINNER: 2024 Foreword Indies Book of the Year - Bronze, Business & Economics; WINNER: 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA), Harvey Chute First Place Category Winner - Non-Fiction Business & Enterprise; WINNER: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2025 - Bronze Medal in Non-Fiction Business; FINALIST: 2025 International Book Awards (IBA) - Business: General and Management & Leadership
Cybersecurity. Biotechnology. Artificial Intelligence. Geopolitics. Pandemics. Environmental Devastation. Supply Chains. Energy Transition.
These forces - and the unpredictable confluence of them - are rewriting the global economic landscape every day. One disruptive event can alter industries overnight, redistributing trillions of dollars in value and shifting the future of business. While many cling to outdated models, those who learn to embrace change will seize massive opportunities for sustainable value creation.
In a world where disruption is constant, how can you navigate the unpredictable and thrive? Disrupt With Impact offers the answers.
This groundbreaking book provides actionable strategies and proven frameworks from a leading futurist and venture capitalist, designed for leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. It shows how to not only defend against disruptive threats but to harness them for transformative success.
Disrupt With Impact focuses on four key areas:
1. The New Nature of Disruption: Understanding how disruption has evolved and how to adapt to a constantly changing world.
2. Systems Innovation and Transformative Change: Creating lasting, sustainable value through game-changing innovation.
3. Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Preparing for the future of decision-making and the transformative role of AI in shaping industries and society.
4. Disruptive Thinking Canvas: Unlocking your creative potential to invent the future today.
Imagine navigating the future with a GPS designed for uncertainty. Disrupt With Impact offers a new operating system for today's world, rejecting outdated playbooks and empowering you to lead in unpredictable times.
"well-illustrated and wide-ranging new approach to large- and small-scale disruptions." - Kirkus Reviews
"...A stimulating and future-focused leadership guide (which) seeks to understand and leverage the world's unpredictability." - Foreword Clarion Reviews
Roger Spitz is a renowned futurist, bestselling author, and President of Techistential, a futures intelligence practice. He also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute, a global education hub empowering leaders for transformative change. A world-leading authority on strategic foresight and systems innovations, Spitz is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network.
He guides CEOs, founders, and boards in evaluating strategy under uncertainty, anticipating disruptions, and sustainable value creation. His frameworks have been featured in Fast Company, Gartner, INC. Magazine, Institute of Directors, and MIT Technology Review. A strong advocate for startups, he is a partner at Vektor Partners (VC fund), and an advisor to Berkeley SkyDeck. Previously, Spitz led Global Technology M&A at BNP Paribas, advising on over 50 transactions totaling $25 billion. Spitz has given hundreds of keynotes globally, is frequently published and quoted, and has guest lectured at many of the world's most prestigious institutions. He is based in San Francisco, USA.
