Laura K. Rhoades
CFP®
Financial Advisor
Change is a routine part of life. I love the clarity that a financial plan can help provide, as well as the confidence needed to act and make decisions along the way.
CFP®
Financial Advisor
Change is a routine part of life. I love the clarity that a financial plan can help provide, as well as the confidence needed to act and make decisions along the way.
Laura Rhoades is a financial advisor in Savant’s Birmingham, Alabama, office, where she helps individuals and families build clarity in their financial future through comprehensive planning. Laura is committed to helping create clear, personalized strategies that address the realities of life’s unpredictability and the needs of each client she serves.
As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional, Laura works across every area of financial planning, including wealth transfer, philanthropy, proactive income and estate tax planning, retirement cash flow projections, retirement income optimization, insurance needs analyses, debt management, and education funding.
Laura has worked in the financial services industry since 2006, including her time as a financial advisor at Bridgeworth before it joined Savant in 2023. She is a member of the Financial Planning Association of North Alabama, the Walker County Chamber of Commerce, and The Collective, which is an initiative of the Walker Area Community Foundation. She also supports families in her hometown of Jasper through the Pregnancy Test and Resource Center.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in consumer sciences with an emphasis on family financial planning and counseling, along with a minor in history, from the University of Alabama, graduating summa cum laude.
Laura and her husband, Alan, have three children and are active members of Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church. She loves playing pickleball, listening to audiobooks, and coaching her daughter’s recreational soccer teams for the past two years.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning, Inc. owns and licenses the certification marks CFP® in the United States to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., which authorizes individuals who successfully complete the organization's initial and ongoing certification requirements to use the certification marks.