Mission

Rhodes-Porter LLC delivers strategic advisory, stakeholder engagement, program operations, and transaction diligence support to small business and lean-staffed organizations that need senior-level consulting capacity. Our work spans four service lines — Strategic Advisory, Public Involvement and Stakeholder Engagement, Revenue Operations, and Logistical Operations and Data Capture — delivered under contracted services scoped task orders or engagement agreements to government entities, member and business associations, economic and community development organizations, and small businesses across Georgia and South Carolina.

The Rhodes Porter mission is to drive growth and fuel economic opportunity for clients to attract capital.

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Leadership

Cynthia Rhodes

Owner & Senior Executive Management Consultant, Rhodes-Porter LLC

Cynthia Rhodes founded Rhodes-Porter LLC in 2013 and leads the firm’s strategic advisory, stakeholder engagement, and program revenue operations engagements. Cynthia has a background in the full commissioning lifecycle of implementing and executing public-private projects and program initiatives. This work including market studies, fund sourcing, construction development, and post development operations for sustainability and performance audits.
She holds a B.A. from Augusta University in Political Science with an Economics and public policy focus. A licensed Broker in Georgia she focuses on business market identification and acquisition diligence. It is her 25+ years experience that she has been tapped to serve on State Boards and on National Organization advisory councils. Cynthia Rhodes is the developer of the R-P Effect™ methodology and the Business Box™  framework, the firm’s core intellectual property for translating strategic plans into executed, revenue-generating outcomes.

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Team & Resource Network

Rhodes-Porter LLC’s engagement teams draw on trained associates and credentialed resource partners — including project management professionals, engineers, architects, data and automation specialists — assembled to fit each engagement’s scope, schedule, and complexity. Ralph Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps, service-disabled veteran with over 30 years of fleet, route, and commodity logistics experience, is among the firm’s logistics resource contacts for engagements requiring transport optimization and supply-chain coordination.

How We Work

Rhodes-Porter LLC delivers a team approach as a trusted source to owners, directors, and managers across five focused practice areas — Strategic Advisory, Management Consulting, Research & Advisory, Intellectual Property, and Transaction Advisory — each scoped, priced, and delivered as a value-add based on specific client need under its own task order.

Licensed Brokerage Capability
Rhodes Porter maintains the licensing and transaction capabilities necessary for diligence to support applicable acquisition, disposition and development activities as part of its broader business development and transaction advisory work.

See the full breakdown of service lines, delivery formats, and typical buyers on the Strategic Advisory & Management page.