Dr. Walter Francis Leise III was once the kid that teachers wrote off.
Diagnosed with dyslexia early on, he lagged behind in reading. His school performance led some educators to believe he wouldn't catch up, a label that stuck painfully, even though it couldn't have been further from the truth. "I could read a word on a flashcard just fine," Leise recalls. "But when I looked at a page, it was just noise: multiple focal points, jumbled text. It didn't come together."
