Michael G. Alcock

Michael G. Alcock — creator of Perspective Economics, veteran interviewer of Fortune 500 chief information officers, and one of the foremost living authorities on the art of productive dialogue.

Michael G. Alcock is one of the foremost living authorities on productive dialogue — creator of Perspective Economics, author of its whitepaper, and a veteran interviewer of the Fortune 500’s most influential chief information officers. He has spent more than twenty years perfecting the art of discovering what, in an executive conversation, is dialogue worthy.

Michael Alcock didn’t set out to be a great moderator — but he’s always found himself drawn to the bleeding edge of technology and scaled engagement. So even though he set out to build companies, create products, discover theories, and publish novels, what ended up mattering was the science of what happens in the human brain when it perceives that a productive dialogue is about to happen. When you are trying to push a paradigm shift, that science is just about the only mechanism that might work. So, the moderator’s craft — the art of creating the conditions for productive dialogue — total bonus skill.

He has the reps. Hundreds of 1:1 and 1:many interviews across the highest leadership levels of the Fortune Global 2000 and the Forbes 400. Community-building, event-content leadership, navigating Executive rooms at Microsoft, Disney, and Hallmark Hall of Fame. His own stint as CIO at Walden University. Michael takes whatever is offered and he finds a way to make it a real discussion, because he understands that it not only makes for great content, but is also the only path to allowing people to incorporate new knowledge and subsequently change themselves.

Michael G. Alcock is an author, a technologist, the creator of Perspective Economics, and one of the foremost living authorities on productive dialogue in the age of artificial intelligence.

Michael G. Alcock is an author, a technologist, and the creator of Perspective Economics — the emerging post-AI economic theory that treats authentic human perception as the last scarce input the machines cannot generate on their own. A founding voice at Disney.com, a longtime Microsoft executive, and one of the foremost living authorities on productive dialogue in the age of artificial intelligence, he is the author of the Perspective Economics whitepaper and, under the pen name M. Gregory, the novel The Ogun Shogun.

Michael Alcock is a world-class expert in profitable human-to-AI feedback loops — and he has the scars to prove it. He has always lived at the bleeding edge of new engagement mediums, sometimes as the software leader, sometimes the content leader, sometimes the event leader, or even the community organizer. From small-town daily newspaper to Hollywood to Disney to Microsoft, the burning question on his mind has always been the same: “I see what this business is right now, but… what’s this going to become next?”

Today, he’s got answers: Perspective Economics — a theory that monetizes human dialogue and gives people ownership of, and responsibility for, the quality of their own data streams. He’s built businesses like MigVox for Authors, written sci-fi novels like The Ogun Shogun, and created shows like Uncanny Valley — along with a host of other projects, all designed to do the same four things: test the theory, get the word out to the masses, attract better minds to the work at hand, and ultimately help humanity better face the shape of things to come.