What we do

We help companies and consultancies to shape regenerative futures, by thinking more like nature and fungi. Through speaking and inspiration, insight and impact, we pose pioneering ways of approaching sustainability, innovation, strategy and design.

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Why we do it

Old paradigms are no longer serving us. As we face polycrisis and ecocide, we urgently need transformative ways of being. Our futures are uncertain, and we have the power to shape them.

Who we do it with

Sustainability and CSR Directors ready to shift beyond the status quo. Visionary founders who see business as a force for good. B-Corps and purpose-driven nonprofits. Consultancies in sustainability, foresight, innovation. Innovation teams helping clients transform. Foresight folk inspired by fresh thinking. Anyone who agrees that you can’t do business on a dead planet.

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Meet the founder, Jess

For two decades I’ve worked in strategic insights - agencies 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 world is facing pivotal uncertainties yet we’re plagued by ‘business as usual’. So I set off on a world mushroom research tour to understand how fungi are impacting our futures.

I’ve learned how nature-centricity can empower us to design regenerative futures together, in service of people, business and our Earthly home.

Yours in spores,

Jess Jorgensen

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Our partners

Sporesight works with a phenomenal core group of partners who support us on a project basis. This global collective of multidisciplinary minds bring diverse perspectives and lived experience to each challenge. Based on the challenge, we hand pick the best people to solve problems, 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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Elizabeth Hofvenschiöld

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Grace Palmer

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Oli Genn-Bash

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Renee Davis

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Samantha Koches

    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®.

Why fungi?

Fungi are fun. They offer a model for better ways of being - in our personal lives, in business and our relationship with the planet. Metaphorically, they’re a source of wisdom and mind-expansion helping us reimagine and shape our worlds. Tangibly, fungi offer sustainable alternatives in food, materials, packaging and construction. Learn more on our newsletter, 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.

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  • Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez; Lets Become Fungal

    “There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements […] carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors.”

  • HIgh snobiety

    “Mushrooms may not just be the produce, but the organism of our time, one with the capacity to change not only how we eat, but how we think and live. Mushrooms offer a model of a healthier way of being — in our personal lives, in our relationships with others, and our relationship with the planet.”

  • Doug Bierand, In Search of Mycotopia

    “Part of the growing appeal of fungi is that they represent means, examples, and ways of thinking through which we might subvert an unsustainable status quo.”

ONGOING WORLD MUSHROOM TOUR

Since 2021 , Sporesight founder Jess Jorgensen has been on a world mushroom research tour: 80+ interviews and counting with fungi pioneers, exploring the impact of humans and fungi on each other and our futures.

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Why symbiotic futures?

Our mission is to close the human-nature disconnect, inspiring regenerative futures for everyone. You don't need another story of collapse and ecocide. Our growth obsession creates a chunky existential crisis: how do we balance human progress with nature's needs? By weaving nature-centric thinking into how we relate to each other and Earth, we can remember that we're entangled and inseparable from the web of life. Imagine! We can shift from destruction to healing, extraction to regeneration.

Rot + Regeneration

If we are to solve some of humanity’s most pressing challenges, we need radical ways of thinking. Our Rot + Regeneration framework sits at the heart of our work. Inspired by nature’s intelligence, it shares new ways to imagine and design regenerative futures. Our playbook Fungi as your Futurist gives a how-to guide to working with these principles.

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WE ARE A PROUDLY SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Sporesight is growing for good, not greed. We're a social enterprise, inspiring regenerative futures for people, nature and future generations. Profits go back into the work, supporting our mission and external mission-aligned initiatives.

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We believe in

  • Extraction to Regeneration → By closing the human-nature disconnect, we can shift to relational care between humans, more-than-humans and Mother Earth.

  • Reacting to Creating Futures → By assessing how we relate to our futures, we can choose our role in them, shifting from merely reacting to change, to actively creating it.

  • Human-centric to Ecosystem-centric → By integrating nature-centric intelligence into design and research, we can inspire regenerative practice.

  • Access over exclusivity → We promote futures thinking and fungi for all — nobody ‘owns’ the natural world — no gatekeepers, only inclusive accessibility.

  • For the funga! → We move past “what can mushrooms do for us”, into also, “what can we do for the mushrooms?”

  • Ancestral intelligence over colonial extraction → We think in generations, not quarters — long-term stewardship over short-term gains.

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Employment

Unfortunately, due to the nature of Sporesight as a Social Enterprise project, we do not offer employment and are unable to respond to all requests via email. Reach out for any further questions.

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