Strategic operations consulting for behavioral health owners and leadership teams ready to scale their impact.
Strategic operations consulting for behavioral health owners and leadership teams ready to scale their impact.
Wagner Executive Partners was founded in 2023 to give behavioral health organizations the operational foundation they need to grow without sacrificing the quality of care they were built to deliver.
The industry is full of organizations with strong clinical missions and fragile operational infrastructure. As they grow, the gap between what they aspire to deliver and what they are operationally capable of delivering widens. Quality erodes. Compliance becomes reactive. Financial performance becomes harder to predict. The vision that started the business becomes harder to scale.
Our work is to close that gap.
We build the leadership structures, operational systems, training infrastructure, and quality oversight that allow behavioral health organizations to deliver consistent quality that drives performance and scalability. Our mission is to make operational excellence a defining characteristic of the behavioral health industry, not a rare exception within it.
Wagner Executive Partners was founded by Alexia Wagner, a behavioral health operator and clinician with more than a decade inside the industry.
Alexia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Qualified Supervisor whose career has moved from direct clinical work into operational leadership across substance abuse and behavioral health settings. Her experience spans clinical operations, admissions, training, compliance, quality infrastructure, utilization management, multi-departmental oversight, program development, multi-site operations, organizational standardization, and strategic planning. This is the cross-functional work that determines whether a behavioral health organization can scale without losing the integrity of the care it delivers.
This combination of credentials and lived operational experience is uncommon in behavioral health consulting. Most firms approach the industry from one of two angles: clinical specialists who advise on care delivery only, or generalist consultants who apply standard operational frameworks without understanding the complexities of behavioral health. Wagner Executive Partners works from a different position entirely. With support from a curated network of industry specialists, Alexia and her team offer operational expertise grounded in multi-speciality fluency that drives real results.
Wagner Executive Partners guides behavioral health organizations through a structured six-stage engagement designed to produce measurable performance gains.
Stage 0: Organizational Health Diagnostic (complimentary)The COHA assessment and a confidential leadership consultation. No cost.
Stage 1: Diagnostic Deep Dive Root cause analysis and the formal Organizational Roadmap. A standalone deliverable — continue with us through implementation, or take the Roadmap and execute internally.
Stage 2: Implementation Building the operational infrastructure the Roadmap identified — systems, accountability structures, training, quality monitoring, and outcomes measurement.
Stage 3: Stabilization Ensuring what was built holds under real operating conditions.
Stage 4: Measurement Documenting performance impact in a formal Outcomes Report.
Stage 5: Sustainment Long-term advisory and quarterly diagnostic re-assessment.