Michael Clark: The Accounting Problem, Collaborative Intelligence, and the Meta Decision-Making Model

About this episode

Simon Bowen speaks with Michael Clark about the future of decision-making and the role of AI in leadership.

In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Michael Clark, author of Our Moment , Next Economy Strategist, and the former Mastercard leader who built the company's first open banking product. Operating from Dubai at the crossroads of emerging markets and global innovation, Michael has spent his career building the systems of tomorrow. He has advised C-suite executives worldwide on data, AI and the future of money, and is known as the voice decision-makers trust when it's time to lead, not follow. This is a conversation about structural gaps - in accounting, in education, in how leaders make decisions - and why this specific moment in history is the window that matters. Michael reframes the entire AI conversation - the customer is no longer human, data is not undervalued but mispriced, AI is not artificial intelligence but collaborative intelligence and the biggest debate of 2026, fresh from Davos, is the role of humanity alongside the machine. Simon builds a live visual model with Michael, the Meta Decision Making Model , structured around three Cs - Context, Concept, and Consequence. A framework built for leaders who want to stop making narrow decisions…

People in this episode

Host: Simon Bowen

Guest: Michael Clark

Topics covered

• accounting
• collaborative intelligence
• decision-making
• AI
• leadership
• strategic thinking

Keywords

• accounting problem
• collaborative intelligence
• Meta Decision-Making Model
• strategic thinking
• future of money

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mastercard

Books & works: Our Moment

Places: Dubai

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