Media and speaking

Short biography

Evan Micheal Foster is the founder of IVA, a Doctor of Public Administration candidate at the University of Illinois Springfield, a public administration researcher, writer and Board Treasurer of 350 Chicago. His work focuses on financialization, organizational value, decision rights, institutional capacity and human-AI governance.

Conversation and speaking topics

• Why organizational overload is structural rather than personal
• Financialization and the governance power of accounting systems
• Decision readiness, authority and implementation failure
• Value-Based Objectives™ and the hidden cost of narrow performance measures
• AI context, organizational memory and the end of disposable information
• Internal governance monopoly and concentrated decision authority
• Public administration, nonprofit capacity and board governance

Name and identity

Full public name: Evan Micheal Foster. Professional references may also use Evan Foster or Evan M. Foster.

Primary location description: based in Illinois. Personal and academic work is rooted in Springfield; IVA works nationally.

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