Doreen Brasseaux has more than thirty-five years of executive leadership experience in the public and private sector. Her expertise lies in organizational management, policy development, legislative strategy, board management, messaging, stakeholder engagement and issues management across a diverse range of subject matters including healthcare, transportation and infrastructure, consulting engineering, higher education, association leadership, and public health.

Before joining Sequitur, Doreen served as President and CEO of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Louisiana, a 130-member statewide organization of consulting engineering firms serving public and private clients. In this role, Doreen advanced the organization’s statewide priorities, improved the overall financial health of the organization, implemented new administrative efficiencies and introduced new programming.

In 2008, based upon her healthcare policy expertise as the Director of Healthcare Reform at the La. Department of Health, Doreen was recruited to LSU to serve as Assistant Vice President of Health Affairs and Medical Education. She advised LSU’s leadership on health policy and participated in the planning, programming and construction of the new $1 billion University Medical Center in New Orleans including building public and legislative support of the teaching hospital’s business plan. 

In addition to her role overseeing healthcare policy, Doreen was tapped to serve as the chief executive of the Office of the LSU Board of Supervisors, managing all policy and administrative issues considered by the Board. In this role, Doreen served as the liaison between the management board, the LSU President and the system’s eight campuses.

Doreen also served as the Policy Director for the Governor’s office under Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, leading the policy and legislative agenda for the state’s recovery and rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina and spent sixteen years serving three Attorneys General leading legislative strategy, statewide public outreach initiatives, grants management and overseeing multiple administrative sections. 

Doreen provides consulting services relative to strategic planning, public policy, business development, legislative and executive advocacy, and transition planning.

Doreen earned an undergraduate and a master’s degree from LSU. 

Get in touch

Doreen has over 20 years of experience working in and around state government across multiple agencies and policy areas.

doreen@sequiturla.com
225.485.9818

Education

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Political Science, 1996

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Masters of Public Administration, 2001