Founder and research context
The theory came from watching formal systems lose what people already knew.
Evan Foster built IVA from operating experience across finance, public health, government, national grant-funded programs, nonprofit governance, and doctoral research on financialization.
Research + practice
A cross-disciplinary view of institutional decisions.
Evan Foster is the founder and Managing Director of Integrated Value Architecture LLC. His experience spans automotive finance, biology, public health, environmental health regulation, government, national nonprofit leadership, grant-funded implementation across every EPA region, board finance, and public administration research.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois Springfield and is a Doctor of Public Administration candidate. His doctoral research examines how federal tax policy reinforces financialization across sectors and shapes institutional behavior.
Why IVA exists
The same structural pattern kept appearing under different names.
Reports multiplied without reducing uncertainty. Authority and execution separated. People closest to the work rebuilt context that formal systems had discarded. Finance absorbed decisions it did not own because it was the only lane with recognized standing. Good people compensated until the organization treated their exhaustion as an individual problem.
IVA began as an effort to give those patterns a durable architecture: a public standard, independent value domains, structural recognition, and practical interfaces that connect evidence to legitimate decisions.
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