About – Mosaic Business Consulting

Laura Wagenknecht, MSW, CEC, CMT

Executive And Leadership Advisor, Corporate Trainer

Laura Wagenknecht, President and Owner of Mosaic Business Consulting, is an experienced Business Consultant, Planner, and Executive Coach. With more than 30 years of professional experience and 20+ years of executive experience, she is able to draw on these experiences to help others.

Her superpower is seeing the big picture within the many pieces that comprise a business and determining where the gaps are that could help your coaching business grow more quickly and successfully.

With compassion, wisdom, and expertise, she helps her clients create the business and the success they have envisioned.

A mosaic is a collection of small pieces that, when put together, create a whole picture.

Likewise, your business is a collective of many pieces and parts that must come together to realize your business vision.

Laura’s diverse business background and expertise make her the ideal fit for working with diverse businesses with diverse needs. She specializes in working with women and minority-owned businesses, especially those who are in retail, healthcare, and coaching or consulting. She believes our diverse coaching practices provide a critical and beautiful contribution to the business community – and the world needs coaches to succeed.

Laura is the leader of community engagement and outreach for the Western Carolina Coaches subchapter of ICF Charlotte and the Co-Chair of SCORE Asheville. She is a member of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce and the 2022 award winner of Best in Business for WomanUp!

Some of her achievements include:

Asheville Chamber Best in Business Award Winner 2022
Helped clients acquire more than $1 Million in loans in one year through her business planning
Increased one client’s revenue by 327% in one year!
Increased ROI for clients by 5 TIMES in three months on average!
Consulted with physicians to set up their offices and negotiate better contracts with insurance companies
Increased customer satisfaction for clients to increase retention
Improved overall employee satisfaction and retention within companies
SAVED clients an average of 15% in expenses through financial analysis!

Laura has had diverse work experience, working in retail, the healthcare field, as a therapist, in nonprofit, and in higher education. This invaluable knowledge enabled her to help a wide array of people in her consulting business and increase their productivity and revenues.

Experience

I have been in the industry for 40+ years and have the expertise to assist you.

True Professional

Ethics and compassion are key traits of our organization. I treat every client with respect, assumed competence, and value.

Privacy Guaranteed

Everything we will discuss will stay 100% confidential and will never be shared with any third party. No exceptions!

Unique Ideas

Every client has different needs, so we will come up with a plan adjusted to fit your specific situation.

Strategic Partners

Barrie Barton

Public Speaking Coach

Together, Barrie and Laura present workshops regarding women’s effective communication, messaging, influencing others and leadership.

Whether it’s delivering your signature speech, pitching an idea to potential clients or performing your authentic stories, Barrie Barton is dedicated to the art and strategy of personal and professional engagement, communication and presentation.

Her clients have titled Barrie as a “Speaking Whisperer, Message Spelunker, Word Distiller, and Performance Polisher.” In her role as a Speaking Coach, she uses empowering tools of presentation skills, stories, and messages that matter to motivate and encourage clients to reach their finest potential.

As the founder and lead facilitator of Stand and Deliver Asheville, a presence-based public speaking and communication skills coaching program for professionals, organizations, and entrepreneurs, Barrie offers speaker labs, individual coaching, and training for businesses and organizations.

She also serves as Artistic Director of Story Choreography Projects where participants' authentic stories are artistically and collaboratively blended together into performance. Story Choreography Projects is an eye-opening, transformative and entertaining process and experience for participants and audiences alike.

Paul Royce, M.B.A., ACC

Certified Executive Coach

Paul and Laura collaborate to help build high-performing teams. They have developed workshops and training modules specifically targeted at high-performing team cultures, communicating simply and powerfully, resolving conflict, executing projects effectively, strategic planning, and organizational change initiatives.

Paul Royce, M.B.A., ACC, senior consultant for PGR Management Consulting Group, is a Certified Executive Coach based in Ottawa, Canada and provides high-performance Executive Coaching and Management Consulting services to help individuals and organizations reach their respective professional and strategic goals. Paul brings a unique combination of credentials and experience to his coaching and consulting assignments, having more than 25 years of domestic and international business experience in the IT/IM, Financial and Government sectors. He is an accredited Certified Executive Coach and upholds the highest standards set out by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is also a repeat contributor to the Harvard Business Review and is an outspoken advocate of Coaching as the primary learning method of top leaders.

Paul completed graduate school at the University of Bradford Management Centre, European Centre for Total Quality Management (TQM) in the U.K. He has done work for numerous organizations in various senior management and consultancy capacities from lead trainer of a large nationally known software company, an interim in-house Quality Consultant at National Westminster Bank, International Banking Operations in the U.K.

We envision a more inclusive, equal and just world made up of capable, compassionate leaders creating a world of vital and successful workplaces.

Mission

To promote the strengths of each person so that they can find the leader from within and develop these skills to increase their career potential, and share their knowledge, skills, talents, and experience to become the mentors of future leaders.

Values

Education — We believe that the ability to make better decisions and build stronger businesses comes with information and knowledge.
Diversity – We celebrate the richness created by various cultures, beliefs, and life experiences. We encourage leaders and businesses to promote diversity to keep new perspectives in the open.
Environment – We strive to create a safe, nurturing environment that promotes trust, honesty, direct communication, and personal/professional growth.
Partnership — We believe that by actively working together in partnership, we strengthen participation, productivity, and progress and increase and improve results. Collaboration is at the heart of growth.
Promotion – We believe that leaders are responsible and obligated to mentor and cultivate aspiring leaders under their leadership.
Quality – We constantly work to improve the quality of everything we do to be responsible stewards of our resources.
Respect – We share a common humanity and work to affirm the individual uniqueness, worth, and capability of each person and business collective.
Accountability – We believe that everyone must strive to be their best. This can only be achieved when we take responsibility and accountability for our actions and the outcomes. We believe that through this process, people become wiser and stronger and can move forward more effectively and positively.