Dr. Michael Sutton (USA)

Michael J. D. Sutton PhD, CMC, FBEI, MIT is an Innovative Researcher, Knowledge Scientist, and Learning Engineer. Over the past 50 years he has distinguished himself in the business and educational fields of:  Game-Based Learning;  Serious Games, Simulations, and Immersive Learning Environments;  Executive Coaching and Mentoring; Leadership and Executive Development;  Entrepreneurship-Edupreneurship; and Knowledge Management/Knowledge Mobilization. He has extensive experience in educating, teaching, managing, technically architecting, and leading strategic business and educational initiatives. He was a Practice Director for over fifteen years, concentrating his analysis, management, and systems thinking talent in this emerging practitioner field of Knowledge Management. Within academic Business Schools he motivated his learners to adopt an “entrepreneurial spirit” that is necessary to succeed in our complex world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). He has coached and mentored founders of start-ups, SMEs, faculty members, as well as executives and managers in Fortune 1000 firms.