About

Evan Micheal Foster is a researcher, writer, and founder of Integrated Value Architecture based in Springfield, Illinois.

His work focuses on governance architecture, financial dominance in organizations, and the structural conditions that shape how institutions recognize value, allocate authority, and make decisions across public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

He is the Founder and Principal Architect of Integrated Value Architecture, a five-ledger governance architecture designed to restore structural balance across financial, operational, capacity, learning, and external value domains. The work draws from public administration, accounting theory, systems thinking, and institutional analysis.

Before launching Integrated Value Architecture, Evan served as Senior Director of Healthy Air Solutions at the American Lung Association, where he led national environmental health initiatives, managed multimillion-dollar programs, and worked across complex organizational and policy environments.

Evan holds a Master of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Illinois Springfield. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois Springfield, where his research examines financialization and resource distribution in public institutions.

Areas of Work

• Governance architecture
• Financialization
• Public administration
• Organizational structure
• Institutional decision making

Evan lives and works in Springfield, Illinois.