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Business Infrastructure & Operations
Organizational design, operational buildout, process improvement, workflow optimization, internal systems development, and business structure alignment.
HR · INFRASTRUCTURE
Now booking 2026 engagements
Building stronger businesses through structure, execution, and connection.
Agency Eleven33 is a business infrastructure firm helping founders, growing service businesses, and senior leadership teams build the operating systems, talent strategy, and relationship architecture behind sustainable growth.
2018
Founded
5
Disciplines
20+
Years exec experience
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Connection Capital framework
Five disciplines
One disciplined approach.
Every engagement is custom. The framework is consistent: identify the gap, design the structure, install the system, connect the right people to the right opportunities.
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Workforce Readiness & Talent Solutions
Talent acquisition, workforce planning, leadership hiring, onboarding systems, performance management.
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Leadership & Organizational Growth
Executive coaching, leadership alignment, decision support, accountability systems, growth planning.
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Business Growth & Leverage
Growth opportunities, strategic partnerships, business positioning, Connection Capital activation, and opportunity mapping.
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Founder Education & Business Setup — powered by HireLevel HQ
Tools, systems, contract templates, payroll guidance, SOPs, compliance basics, and workshops — the "build the business behind the brand" curriculum.
The business behind the brand.
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Founders & Early-Stage Operators
New business owners building infrastructure for the first time, and founders ready to put structure behind the brand they've already built.
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Growing Service Businesses
Service providers scaling into employers. Small operators fixing messy infrastructure. Owners ready to step out of every part of the work.
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Executive Leadership Teams
CEOs and senior leadership teams strengthening accountability, decision-making, and the internal structure required for sustainable growth.
Trusted
Relationships
Relationships
Strategic
Access
Access
Business
Alignment
Alignment
Connection
Capital
Capital
Our signature framework
What is Connection Capital?
The ability to leverage trusted relationships, strategic access, and aligned opportunities as a catalyst for measurable business growth. The layer most firms miss — and the one that turns operational discipline into enterprise value.
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Trusted Relationships
Access across corporate leadership, media, business, and governance — built over a career inside BET, REVOLT, WPP, and EBONY.
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Strategic Access
Introductions, partnership pathways, and the rooms that move opportunities forward — through alignment, not cold outreach.
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Business Alignment
The right people to the right opportunities at the right time — the discipline behind every successful relationship-led growth motion.
About the founder
"I've spent my career inside the boardrooms most consultants only describe. Eleven33 brings that lived experience to founders and leaders who want infrastructure, not just advice."
Arnicia V. Arrington
Founder & CEO · EVP People Operations & Culture, EBONY Media Group
EBONY · CURRENT EVP
REVOLT · PRIOR
BET · PRIOR
WPP · PRIOR
MARYLAND UEF BOARD
PG COMMISSION FOR WOMEN
HONORARY DOCTORATE · 2024
The education layer
HireLevel HQ.
The education and implementation platform powered by Agency Eleven33 — built for new and established business owners ready to operate stronger and grow with confidence.
"Agency Eleven33 applies the systems. HireLevel HQ teaches you how to build them yourself."
Free download · Lead magnet
7 Steps to Becoming a Business Owner
The complete starter guide from "The CorporatePreneur" — business name, domain, address, phone, IRS & state registration, banking. Practical, step-by-step, free.
In their words
Leaders we've built with.
Real testimonials from current and past clients. Many of our engagements are confidential — names and attribution provided with permission.
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A Fortune 500 People Operations engagement that quietly rewired our hiring committee. Six months in we couldn't believe how chaotic we'd been.
Confidential
SVP, People · Fortune 500 media
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Connection Capital is not a buzzword here — three of our highest-leverage partnerships came directly from rooms Arnicia walked us into.
Confidential
CEO · Portfolio company
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She's lived inside the boardrooms most consultants only describe. That changes everything about how the advice lands.
Confidential
Founder · Independent agency
Questions about working with us.
What does Agency Eleven33 do?
A business infrastructure and growth firm. We design organizations, install operational systems, lead talent and workforce strategy, coach leadership teams, and activate growth through our signature Connection Capital framework.
Who is Arnicia V. Arrington?
Founder & CEO of Agency Eleven33; EVP, People Operations & Culture at EBONY Media Group; prior senior leadership at REVOLT, BET, and WPP; board member of the Maryland Uninsured Employers' Fund (appointed by Gov. Wes Moore) and the Prince George's County Commission for Women.
What is Connection Capital?
Our signature framework — leveraging trusted relationships, strategic access, and aligned opportunities as a catalyst for measurable business growth.
What's the difference between Agency Eleven33 and HireLevel HQ?
Agency Eleven33 applies the systems for you. HireLevel HQ teaches owners how to build them themselves — templates, tools, workshops, and starter guides.
How do I work with Agency Eleven33?
Book a discovery call. We'll scope against the five-discipline framework and propose an engagement shaped to your stage and gap.
Insights
Notes from the practice.
Frameworks, observations, and field notes from inside the firm.
The business behind the brand.
The systems, structure, and operational discipline most founders skip, and the cost of building without them.
Coming soonRelationships are the strategy.
How disciplined relationship architecture creates business opportunities cold outreach simply cannot.
Coming soonBuilding the team behind the growth.
Hiring, onboarding, and workforce design for service businesses scaling from solo to small team.
Coming soonReady to build with us?
If you want us to build with you, work with Agency Eleven33. If you want to learn how to build it yourself, start with HireLevel HQ. Either way — let's talk.