Janis Powers

JANIS POWERS is a career strategy and operations consultant with a unique vision for the American health care system. Her bestselling book, Health Care: Meet the American Dream, offers a groundbreaking, alternative payment model for health care. She started the company Longitudinal Health Care to bring the ideas from her book to life.

Powers is a master of making sense of the complex. Whether it’s a raft of data, reams of research or hours of personal interviews, Powers has the unique ability to translate information into actionable, forward-thinking plans. Her breadth of knowledge – from politics to policy to recent medical breakthroughs – is an essential element to Longitudinal’s success.

Powers majored in architecture at Yale and earned masters’ degrees in architecture and business from the University of Michigan.

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