Laura Gaythwaite, CTP
Business Strategist
Laura Gaythwaite, CTP
Business Strategist
An accomplished professional who will leverage her knowledge of innovative solutions to improve your cash flow and preserve capital for future success. A proven leader with a passion for helping clients build winning teams.
A Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and Certified Commercial Lender with more than 25 years of commercial banking experience with Bank of America and Synovus.
Help Business Succeed
- Diverse industry clients – managing relationships for community banks, manufacturers, franchise owners, restaurants, QSRs, privately held family businesses, middle-market clients, and large corporate clients.
- Extensive seminars and training sessions expertise – customized business topics include Financial Empowerment, Team Building and Embracing Diversity in the Workplace, building a Successful Sales Culture, Business and Executive Succession Planning, Building Business Value by Understanding Financial Metrics, and Talent Optimization leveraging the Predictive Index.
- Improve financial processes – designing and applying technology solutions to allow business to redirect valuable resources to focus on growth or diversification.
- Strategic planning – educating businesses, conducting strategic planning sessions across the organization, establishing goals, building incentive programs for success, monitoring progress, and changing course as needed.
- Assessing existing financial systems – determining gaps, developing a plan, evaluating financial partners, and establishing new processes.
- Executive Coaching, Team Building, and Diversity Equity & Inclusion Consulting
Professional Certifications
- Certified Treasury Professional
- American Bankers Association Certified Commercial Banker
- USF Certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Certified Exit Planner (CExP) (2017 -2019)
- Predictive Index Facilitator
Volunteer Work
- WeREAD – Founder and Director – weREAD is a faith-based Children’s Reading Ministry that reads to kids and donates free books to the children in Richmond’s Housing Authority neighborhoods
- Southside Homeless Outreach – Co-Director – SHO provides breakfast, hygiene kits, clothing, prayer and love to the homeless population in Richmond’s East Midlothian neighborhoods
- Needles Eye Ministy – Member of the InfluencHER Cohort
- The WOW Collaborative – Founding Member
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay – Advisory Board Member
- Port Manatee Propeller Club – Board Member
- 100 Women Who Care of Greater Sarasota
- Sisterhood for Good – Women’s Giving Circle
Education
- University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia
Areas of Expertise
Budgeting & Forecasting
Business Strategy
Process Innovation
Management Reporting
M&A: Due Diligence
M&A: Transition Management
Leadership
Financial Systems Design
Team Building
Talent Optimization
practical Experience, Impactful solutions
Building Business Value by Financial Empowerment
Insights into your financial performance
It is important that businesses understand their cash conversion cycle to better manage their working capital. Laura can help build strategies to monitor and improve your financial position. In addition, she can do an in-depth business process review of your cash management procedures to find efficiencies, cost savings, and streamline your back office.
Business and Executive Succession Planning
The power of planning
Successful Succession Planners are essential for any business whether you are looking for your next C-Suite candidate, selling your business to an outside entity, or transitioning your company to a next generation owner/operator. Laura can help you build and structure your transition team that will advise you on ways to build value, retain key talent, maximize your bottom line, and understand any potential tax consequences.
Optimize Your Banking Relationships
Insights into your financial performance
Uniquely qualified to review your banking treasury management partnerships and offer solutions to optimize your banking relationships. Uniquely qualified to review you banking treasury management partnerships to review pricing and solutions to optimize your banking relationships. Laura is certified to help you review your current cash management processes and debt structures to recommend improvements.
Team Building and Embracing Diversity in the Workplace
Talent optimization is key in building successful teams
Laura brings a wealth of experience in the workplace as a facilitator in discussions around team building and diversity in the workplace. By leveraging the Predictive Index and other resources you can be better equipped to make the right hires to accomplish your goals. When you embrace successful team building and diversity initiatives in the workplace, you build world class teams who work together to drive success.
Roles Served
spanning 25+ years in roles including:
- Senior Vice President, Senior Solutions Specialist
- Senior Vice President, Commercial Relationship Manager
- Director of Client Service and Business Development
- Senior Vice President, Commercial Bank
Laura delivers superior service, builds strong community relationships, and provides quality financial advice for business clients, corporations, franchisees, and non-profit organizations. She helps businesses with working capital management solutions to improve cash flow and suggests liquidity solutions to build and preserve capital for future success. She has a passion and proven success for optimizing talent and building winning teams.