What we do
We build the capacity — in leaders and organisations — to acquire sporesight: to imagine plural futures, end what's expired well, and grow what regenerates from the parts.
Why we do it
Old paradigms are no longer serving us. As the world faces narratives of ‘metacrises’ and ‘collapse’ and futures flux faster than orgs can let go, we believe the missing skill is the power to end things well. Starting with what needs to rot.
Who we do it with
Corporate change-makers in strategy, sustainability, innovation and foresight — arriving as individuals, returning with their organisations — and the practitioners, agencies and venues growing this work with us.
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Meet the founder, Jess
For two decades I’ve worked in strategic insight and foresight - consultancy and client side, helping organisations to consciously consider people, cultures and our futures. But my commitment to nature (and Funga) were calling for more.
Our future is facing pivotal uncertainties yet we’re plagued by ‘business as usual’ - making more, extracting more, wasting more. So I set off on a world mushroom research tour to learn from the organisms that have been turning endings into beginnings for a billion years.
Five years and 100+ interviews later, the lesson is simple: rot before regeneration. Fungi showed me that life-centric thinking starts with decomposition — and that it's a capacity leaders can acquire.
Sporesight exists to build it: to see what needs to die, end it well, and grow good futures from the parts — for people, business, our Earthly home and nonhuman kin.
Yours in spores,
The Spore-co
Sporesight works with a growing collective of partners who support by engagement. These multidisciplinary minds bring diverse perspectives, lived experience and specialist expertise. We curate the right team for each engagement, the fungal way.
Additionally, we’ve nurtured a network of 300+ global leaders working at the intersection of mycology, regeneration, and futures thinking. If you or your organisation are interested in partnering or connecting with our collective, let us know: hello@sporesight.co
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ALICE JASMINE CRIPPA
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Alice, of Bogiaisso APS & Differ Studio, is an experience designer specialising in embodied, participative innovation, solving problems by building prototypes and exploring scenarios with both bodies and minds.
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CONNER EASTWOOD
FUTURES IMAGINING
Conner is the Founder and Creative Director of StudioCone, an experimental design studio helping create conscious and equitable futures, through radical imagination and immersive interventions at the intersect of society, technology and ecology.
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JANVIER HAFASHA
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE / RESILIENCE
Janvier is the Executive Director of HODARI Foundation, a refugee-led nonprofit. Drawing from lived experience in displaced life, he builds refugee resilience via regenerative mushroom farming + permaculture.
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ELIZABETH HOFVENSCHIÖLD
AI & ETHICS
Elizabeth teaches business & AI ethics, futures thinking + strategy at ESB - where tomorrow’s ideas take root. She researches responsible AI with a co-creative twist, shaping ethical tech future narratives. She’s a forest explorer & fungi philosopher.
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GRACE PALMER
SCIENTIFIC WRITING + FUTURES
Grace is a Biotech graduate, science and adrenaline enthusiast happiest in water, forests, doing DIY, writing or researching. Governed by the mantra mostly happy, mostly healthy, mostly going in the right direction.
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OLI GENN-BASH
FUNGI CONSULTANT
Oli, founder at The Fungi Consultant, is a mycology educator and consultant exploring the intersection of functional mushrooms, systems thinking, and wellbeing—bridging science, tradition, and fungal wisdom to support personal and planetary health.
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RENEE DAVIS
MYCOLOGY | ENGINEER
Renee is a mycologist-engineer. Formerly R&D Director at Fungi Perfecti, she’s a doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, active in the fungal biotech startup ecosystem and passionate about applying fungi to regenerative systems, innovation, and design.
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SAMANTHA KOCHES
REGENERATIVE BUSINESS
Samantha is the Founder and Executive Director of nonprofit Nourish All, building livelihoods + food security with vulnerable communities. Formerly, she consulted in strategy for Feeding America + Bain & Company, + regenerative land management for Systemiq.
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SULAIMAN R. KHAN
ANTI-ABLEISM
Sulaiman, is a Global Majority spicy Disabled AF oracle. As the Founder of ThisAbility® Limited, his life goal is designing radical ecosystems of curiosity (and care), Access Intimacy for collective liberation, and acts of daily Revolutionary LOVE®.
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ALLYSON CARROL
CULTURAL TRANSITION
Allyson is a cultural strategist and transition practitioner working at the intersection of business, futures, and change. Twenty years scaling retail brands gave her hard-won commercial and operational intelligence. She uses this to move leaders and organisations from vision to action.
We believe in
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For the funga! → We move past “what can mushrooms do for us”, into also, “what can we do for the mushrooms?”
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Extraction to Regeneration → By closing the human-nature disconnect, we can shift to relational care between humans, more-than-humans and Mother Earth.
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Future dread to Future agency → By changing our relationship to endings, we shift from dreading what's coming to authoring our futures — letting go of what's expired, and growing what's possible from the parts.
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Human-centric to Earth-centric → By integrating fungal intelligence into design and research, we can inspire regenerative practice for all of life to benefit and thrive.
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Access over exclusivity → We promote futures thinking and fungi for all — nobody ‘owns’ the natural world — no gatekeepers, only inclusive accessibility.
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Ancestral intelligence over colonial extraction → We think in generations, not quarters. Long-term stewardship and reciprocity over short-term greedy gains.
WE ARE A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Sporesight is growing for good, not greed. We're a social enterprise which means that profits go back into the work, supporting regenerative initiatives.
Transdisciplinary practice
Because acquiring sporesight takes all of it. Strategic foresight brings the discipline of plural futures — seeing beyond dominant narratives of “what’s coming”. Regenerative thinking brings the design principles for what grows next. Nature-based leadership brings the embodied renewal to make it happen. And endings work brings the deepest skill: letting go with intention, so collapse becomes compost.
Why fungi?
Fungi are fun. They're Earth's oldest experts in the thing leaders struggle with most: endings. Metaphorically, they teach us to decompose things and grow what's next from the parts — in our personal lives, our organisations, our relationship with the planet. Some species have evolved to decompose diapers, fast fashion, plastic, cigarette butts and transphobia. Learn more by following our writing, Spore-drops.
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Image description: A grainy, light blue-hued photograph of a woman’s hand holding the upside-down cap of a mushroom, displaying how its gills spread from the centre of the stem.
Image description: A close-up photograph of several turkey-tail mushrooms, growing alongside each other. Each mushroom is shaped like a fan, with concentric rings of colour, from oranges to blues to browns and yellows.
RESEARCH UNDERPINNING OUR WORK
Since 2021 , Sporesight founder Jess Jorgensen has been on a global research tour: 5+ years. 100+ interviews and counting with pioneers in fungi and life-centric thinking, exploring the impact of fungi on human futures.
Why regenerative foresight?
Our mission is to inspire regenerative futures for everyone. You don't need another story of collapse; you need the capacity to compost one. Our human growth obsession creates a crisis: we build endlessly and end little: more making = more extraction = more waste. By shifting to life-centric thinking, we remember we're entangled and inseparable from the web of life, where nothing regenerates without first breaking down.
Rot + Regeneration
Sporesight's Rot + Regeneration framework sits at the heart of everything we do: fungal principles for seeing what's expired, ending it well, and growing what regenerates from the parts. For the how-to, start with our playbook, Fungi as your Futurist.
FAQs
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A regenerative foresight practice that thinks like fungi. We help you rot what's expired and grow what's next from the parts. Foresight, strategy, endings minus the corporate cosplay.
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For your imagination: masterclasses, Decomposition Days and retreats for practitioners. For futures impact: org Rot Retreats, an embedded fractional role, and the Spore-Print, our full decomposition strategy offering.
Lastly, speaking: sparks for your event or offsite. And self-serve: our Fungi as your Futurist playbook and recorded classes (coming soon). -
Because fungi have run the planet's regeneration economy for 400+ million years. They’re like the original anti-capitalists. We're borrowing the best R&D in evolutionary history.
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Our work is fun but it’s also grounded in a multi-year research tour interviewing 100+ fungi pioneers across five continents, as well as a founder with 20+ years leading global insight initiatives, and a collective of partners at the forefront of their sectors. Every engagement is measured, before and after. We bring receipts, not crystals.
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We experiment with myco-materials to bring the work to life and inspire people through the magic of mycelium.
Substrates come from agricultural byproducts and food waste, locally where possible. No synthetic binders, additives or virgin materials.
Moulds are DIY or sourced from dumpster diving in London.
People who meet mycelium on a Rot Retreat or Decomposition Day are encouraged to take a homegrown mycelium block home and compost it — rot before regeneration, practised in your home.
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Nope. That's our job. You bring the broken system, we bring the mycelial thinking. Curiosity and an open mind are the only prerequisites.
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Just like fungi, acquiring Sporesight comes in various shapes and sizes.
Email us for a rate card scoped to your geography and organisation.
We offer sliding scale prices for Big Corp > SMEs > Nonprofits > Academia.
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Book a Decomposition Day. Most of our clients come to us as individuals who learn the inner ‘rot’ work first, before returning with their organisations for deeper strategy and impact work.
An easy way in…just book a call to chat!
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Not yet! Hopefully soon.
Where are we? Sporesight pops up around UK, Europe, Southern Africa and occasionally North America when the conditions are right. We are based between London and Cape Town.
What’s the future goal? We’re working toward a mycelial learning centre: a demonstration in regenerative mycelial living, open to residencies, rot, collaborations and acquiring sporesight.
Philanthropists, funders, folks with financial abundance… If you or someone you know would like your money to support capacity building for regenerative, mycelial futures, please email Sporesight Foundress Jess Jorgensen at hello@sporesight.co to learn more.
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Yes and no.
No… to venture capital, corporate buy-outs or becoming a large agency or consultancy.
Yes… to values-aligned philanthropic generosity, education grants. We are actively seeking funding to complete a published book/PHD to share our fungal futures research, and investment in a mycelial learning centre in rural Europe.
Philanthropists, funders, folks with financial abundance… If you or someone you know would like your money to support capacity building for regenerative, mycelial futures, please email Sporesight Foundress Jess Jorgensen at hello@sporesight.co to learn more.
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You tell me.
WORKING WITH US
Employment
Sporesight doesn't employ by design. Like our subject, we grow as a network: a founder-led practice woven with our Spore-co collective of independent practitioners. If you'd like to grow with us, join an open Decomposition Day, follow Spore-Drops, or introduce yourself and your practice for partnership. We reply as capacity allows — patience appreciated.
