Roger Spitz ranks No. 6 on Thinkers360 management leaderboard

Roger Spitz, chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute and president of Techistential, was ranked No. 6 on Thinkers360’s 2026 Top 50 Global Thought Leaders on Management list. The recognition, along with new publishing and teaching work, signals that strategic foresight is moving deeper into management, leadership and executive education.

Why it matters: - Roger Spitz’s ranking shows strategic foresight is being recognized as a management discipline, not just a futures specialty. - The shift matters for boards, executives and investors facing faster-expiring assumptions, more AI-driven uncertainty and harder decisions about who should hold decision rights. - Spitz’s work is now appearing in leadership journals, executive education and thought-leadership rankings aimed at management audiences.

What happened: - Thinkers360 ranked Spitz No. 6 in its Top 50 Global Thought Leaders on Management 2026 list, published on 6 September 2026. - Thinkers360 gave Spitz a normalized score of 76.27. - Spitz chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute and is president of Techistential. - Duke Corporate Education published Spitz’s article “The future of decision making” in its Dialogue journal in August 2026. - Spitz teaches strategic foresight, AI and decision-making in executive education. - He delivers those topics to CEOs, boards, investors and governments through his executive programs at the Disruptive Futures Institute.

The details: - Thinkers360 says its annual leaderboards are built from members’ personally authored work and curated professional experience, including books, articles, keynotes, media, awards and credentials. - Social media following is only one input in the Thinkers360 methodology. - Spitz also ranks No. 6 globally in National Security on Thinkers360. - Thinkers360 lists Spitz among its leading thought leaders in Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics and AI Governance. - Global Gurus ranked Spitz No. 15 in its World’s Top 30 Futurist Professionals for 2026. - That list includes Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis and Michio Kaku. - Spitz said boards stopped treating foresight as a specialist function once planning assumptions began expiring before finalization. - Spitz said curriculum is a different test from a keynote because a program must hold up months later when participants are asked what changed.

Between the lines: - The recognition suggests strategic foresight is crossing from external advisory work into mainstream management training and governance. - Spitz’s message centers less on predicting specific technologies and more on how AI changes human judgment and decision rights. - His broad placement across management, national security and AI categories points to a cross-disciplinary market for foresight work. - The repeated publication and ranking cycle also helps turn Spitz’s frameworks into durable management vocabulary.

What's next: - Spitz’s current speaking calendar includes Meta’s Conversations 2026 in London, RSA Conference and Cloudflare’s Trust Forward Summit in San Francisco, the World Economic Forum in Geneva, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in London, MIT Technology Review’s EmTech in Brazil, Instituto de Directores de Chile in Santiago and RIMS in the U.S. - Demand for his programs extends into 2027 across corporations, technology firms, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, governance institutes and policy councils. - Spitz is developing the Law of Inaction into eight principles with applied case studies for publication starting in 2027. - The Law of Inaction argues that deferral is a decision and that costs and missed opportunities compound while attention is elsewhere. - His 2024 book, Disrupt With Impact, continues to circulate in futures, policy and professional education settings. - The Disruptive Futures Institute speaking page is available here.