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Dr. Walter Balser is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida whose scholarship explores the changing education ecosystem through the lens of decentralization. His work examines how accelerating technologies and shifting paradigms across society are reshaping leadership, governance, and the very architecture of schooling as we know it. He studies the tensions between natural and rational systems, control and freedom, and how open, trust-based models might support adaptability in a distributed world. Dr. Balser is the founder of the Foresight Leadership Lab and author of emerging literature and frameworks that challenge conventional assumptions about schooling models and design, inviting leaders to rethink the "source code" of education—offering new possibilities for meaning, purpose, and coherence in an era defined by autonomy, complexity, and AI.