Succession Planning Experts – Atlanta
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, The Rawls Group proudly serves clients across the nation. We specialize in family business succession planning and offer expert guidance to ensure long-term success. Our Altanta succession planning team supports business owners in navigating leadership transitions, resolving family dynamics, and developing sustainable growth strategies.
Atlanta, GA – serving clients across the country
850.294.3042 (T)
407.578.4480 (F)
With over 50 years of experience, we understand the complex challenges that come with succession planning. Whether you’re preparing for retirement, bringing in the next generation, or strengthening your leadership team, our advisors are here to help.
Each plan is carefully tailored to your specific goals—ensuring your legacy continues with clarity and confidence.
Why Work with Our Atlanta Succession Planning Advisors?
- Our process addresses both the technical and emotional aspects of succession planning.
- Clients benefit from a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in family therapy, estate planning, business management, and organizational psychology.
- By following a proven 3-phase framework, we reduce uncertainty and build strategic alignment.
Rather than simply checking boxes, we develop a strategic roadmap tailored to your business and family.
As a result, you can transition with confidence and build a foundation for long-term growth.
Jeff Faulkner
President & Director of Strategic Growth
Succession Advisor
David Weaver
Nick AllmanResources
The Succession Planning Process: What to Expect and How to Begin
If you’ve ever searched for the succession planning process steps, you know it can feel overwhelming. Succession planning isn’t just about naming a successor. It’s a strategic, long-term process that prepares your business, your people, and your family for a successful transition of leadership and ownership. Get it wrong, [...]
Is Your Fuel Business Built to Last—or Dependent on You?
Fuel business succession planning often starts with a simple question: if you were unexpectedly out of the business for 30 days, would the company stay steady, or would people start looking for you? For many fuel, propane, heating oil, delivery gas, and biofuel owners, the answer is uncomfortable. The company [...]
Exit Planning vs Succession Planning: Which Path Is Right for Your Dealership?
Most dealers are already on a path between exit and succession. Not because they’ve made a decision, but because how the business is structured today is already shaping whether it will be sold or transitioned over time. This is where an automotive exit strategy or succession plan becomes less about choice, [...]
More Entities, Less Control: Where Dealer Groups Get Stuck
Automotive ownership structure succession planning is where most dealership groups quietly lose control. Not because anything breaks overnight, but because ownership, authority, and resources stop lining up as the business grows. Quick Summary Automotive ownership structure succession planning ensures dealership groups align ownership entities, control, and governance as [...]
Why Dealer Succession Plans Fail in Dealership Groups
Why dealer succession plans fail usually has less to do with bad intentions and more to do with structure lag. In multi-rooftop dealership groups, unresolved authority, weak governance, thin executive bench depth, and untested manufacturer approval can quietly weaken continuity, credibility, and valuation long before a transition is officially [...]
Professionalizing a Family Franchise: From Transition to Transformation
Many multi-unit franchise businesses are built on trust, loyalty, and instinct. That foundation creates speed and cohesion early on, but as the business grows, those same strengths can become constraints if they are not supported by structure. In this case, a growing franchise organization reached a point where continued success required [...]
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