Ann Brandau speaks on leadership, community redevelopment, healthcare strategy, resilience, and public service, drawing on a career across healthcare, government, nonprofits, and higher education. She is a Principal Consultant at Prosperity Consulting, advising hospitals, physician practices, and nonprofits. As a nonprofit executive director, she led the transformation of a 17-acre Superfund site, abandoned for three decades, into a neighborhood market in partnership with Walmart and public and private stakeholders. She served three terms as a Wyandotte County Commissioner and two appointed terms on the Kansas Board of Regents. Her talks draw on both hard-won operational experience and her writing on how institutions shape individual lives.