Biography of Ann Brandau

Ann Brandau Healthcare Executive | Healthcare Consultant | Strategy & Performance Improvement Leader Ann Brandau has spent her career proving a single idea: that measuring outcomes and challenging assumptions can move organizations and communities others had written off. She is Principal Consultant at Prosperity Consulting, and her path to that work ran through healthcare executive suites, an elected county commission seat, a state higher-education board, and one of the Kansas City region's hardest redevelopment projects. What she does now: As Principal Consultant at Prosperity Consulting, Brandau advises hospitals, physician practices, and nonprofit organizations on the financial, operational, and regulatory challenges that decide whether they succeed over the long term. Drawing on years in healthcare executive and consulting roles, her work spans strategic planning, operational improvement, payer contracting, regulatory compliance, physician practice operations, business development, and organizational turnarounds. She has helped organizations recover lost revenue, negotiate complex payer agreements, expand access to care, and build strategies that strengthen both financial sustainability and patient outcomes across rural hospitals, community health centers, specialty practices, and nonprofit healthcare organizations. A record across sectors: Brandau served three terms as a Wyandotte County Commissioner, where she chaired the Economic Development Standing Committee and led numerous redevelopment and public policy initiatives. She was appointed and later reappointed by the