YOUR MARKETING PARTNER SHOULD MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER.

I believe the best agency relationships give marketing leaders more than great work. They bring clarity when things get complicated, senior expertise when your team needs it, fresh thinking when you're too close to the problem, and reliable execution that keeps everything moving toward results. That's the kind of partner I built Levo to be.

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About Anya

I built my career where
strategy and creativity meet.

I'm Anya Sleezer, founder and creative strategist of Levo, a women-owned strategic creative agency based in Tulsa and serving clients across the U.S. and beyond.

I've spent the past 20 years helping companies figure out what they need to say, why anyone should care, and how to turn that thinking into something people can actually see, feel, and act on.

I started my career in 2006 inside the corporate marketing departments. Working on the client side gave me an education I couldn't have gotten anywhere else. I learned how marketing decisions really get made, how many competing priorities internal teams manage, and how frustrating it can be when an outside partner understands the assignment but not the bigger business problem.

Since then, I've worked across branding, advertising, marketing strategy, websites, digital marketing, environmental design, and creative direction for more than 100 companies in 20+ industries, including 13+ billion-dollar brands.

In 2013, I turned that experience into Levo.

20+

Years of Experience

100+

Companies

20+

Industries

13+

Billion-Dollar Brands

Awards

I wanted to create the kind of agency relationship I believed clients deserved:

Experienced people at the table.
Smart strategy without unnecessary complexity.
Creativity grounded in business goals.
A partner who stays close enough to the work to help get it across the finish line.

What I Believe

I believe great marketing starts
with understanding people.

I've always been fascinated by why people connect with certain ideas, brands, places, and experiences and forget others entirely. That curiosity has shaped how I approach marketing. Before I think about a campaign, website, logo, or media plan, I want to understand the people involved. What does the company believe? What does the audience care about? Where do those things intersect? And what could we create that makes that connection impossible to ignore?

Truth is more powerful than trends.
The strongest brands do not manufacture meaning. They uncover something true about themselves and communicate it in a way people can believe in and relate to.
Strategy should create clarity.
A strategy is not useful because it is complicated. It is useful when it helps people make better decisions
Creativity should solve something.
I love unexpected ideas, but creativity for creativity's sake has never interested me. The idea has to move something forward.
Execution matters.
A brilliant concept that never survives the realities of budget, timing, technology, stakeholders, or production is not a brilliant solution.
Relationships matter.
The best work of my career has come from clients and collaborators who trust one another enough to challenge assumptions, say what they really think, and build something better together.

Why I founded Levo

I built Levo to be the partner
I wanted clients to have.

After working inside marketing departments, I knew exactly how much internal teams were juggling. I also knew an agency relationship could either create momentum or create one more thing to manage. So I built Levo around a simpler idea.

Give clients direct access to experienced people.
Put strategy and creativity in the same room.
Assemble the right specialists around the actual problem.
Stay close enough to the work to make sure the thinking survives execution.

Levo is virtual by design. That lets me build teams from a broader network of senior strategists, creatives, technologists, marketers, and producers instead of limiting the work to whoever happens to sit inside one office. It also lets us stay nimble, flexible, and focused on the client rather than the agency hierarchy.

Today, I lead that collective while remaining directly involved in brand strategy, integrated marketing strategy, creative direction, and the work itself.

RallyPoint

I believe every great brand needs
something worth believing in.

Across industries, company sizes, and types of assignments, I kept seeing the same problem: marketing gets harder when a company has not clearly defined what everything is building toward. That pattern led me to create RallyPoint, Levo's belief-based brand strategy method.

A RallyPoint is the core belief your brand stands for. It's the reason people believe in what you do.

It is not another tagline or mission statement. It is the strategic and emotional center that can align leadership, employees, messaging, creative, and marketing around one idea people can understand and genuinely connect with.

The method moves through four connected stages: Discover, Define, Design, and Deploy. We uncover the belief, articulate it clearly, translate it into the brand and marketing system, then bring it into the market in a way that supports real business goals.

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Experience

I've learned something from
every brand I've helped build.

My experience as a brand strategist and marketing strategist spans global brands, mid-sized companies, nonprofits, technology firms, manufacturers, healthcare organizations, consumer brands, and organizations navigating their next stage of growth.

Over nearly two decades, my work has helped shape brands including but not limited to the following:

Different industries bring different constraints, audiences, and opportunities. That's part of what I love about the work. Every engagement adds another perspective and another way of seeing the problem in front of me.

Selected Work

The work is where everything
comes together.

Strategy matters most when people can see it, feel it, and act on it. My work with the Levo team spans branding, advertising, websites, digital marketing, environmental design, employer branding, content, and integrated campaigns for mid-sized brands and larger organizations.

Branding

Great branding sets you apart and attracts customers. We craft strategic logos, branded materials, and more.

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Valvoline

Fabricut

Industrial Service Company

Advertising + Marketing

We help you share your “why” with effective graphic design, ads, collaterals, billboards, direct marketing pieces, packaging and more.

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Red Maple

QwikFix

Valvoline

Web Design + Development

Convert your website visitors into life-long customers. We handle back-end coding to front-end design, that’s engaging and user-friendly.

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N3

Red Maple

Valvoline

SEO, Digital + Social Marketing

We create SEO, digital and social campaigns to banner ads with cutting-edge digital strategies that attract customers and turn them into lifelong advocates.

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Proko

Fox Cleaners

Valvoline

Environmental Design + Tradeshows

Invite customers to experience your company through a branded environment—from signage and corporate interior design to tradeshows.

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Industrial Service Company

Williams & Williams Auction

Valvoline

Mission-Driven Marketing

Grow your impact with strategy rooted in purpose. We help nonprofits, advocacy groups, and conscious brands connect with the people who matter—through brand clarity, authentic storytelling, and design that inspires action.

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YMCA

MorseLife

GoodEggs

Building Levo

Building a women-owned business changed what was possible.

Levo has been certified as a Women-Owned Business by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce since 2019. I'm proud of the certification, but I'm even prouder of the business behind it. Building Levo gave me the opportunity to create the kind of company I wanted to work in and the kind of partner I wanted clients to have: flexible, direct, collaborative, curious, accountable, and human.

It also gave me the freedom to rethink assumptions about where great work has to happen, who has to be in the room, and how an agency can create space for talented people to do exceptional work together.

Recognition

I'm proud when the
work gets noticed.

A selection of the recognition I've received as a business and creative leader includes:

The 10 Most Iconic Businesswomen to Follow, CIO Views
Top 25 Women Chief Innovation Officers, Finalist, The Women We Admire
Top 10 Influential Leaders, Iconic Express
Top 10 Inspiring CEOs, C-Level Focus
Top 10 Inspiring Women Leaders, Industry Era Women Leaders
10 Best CIOs, C-Level Focus

Earlier in my career, my design work earned one Gold, one Silver, and three Citations in the Graphex Regional Design Competition and was featured in TulsaPeople.

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In Their Words

The relationships matter
as much as the work.

“Anya Sleezer is a bright, articulate, multi-talented visionary businesswoman who uses her many interests and skills to uniquely provide design and marketing services to clients. This is one ‘gifted’ lady!”

Dr. Clarence G. Oliver, Jr.,
Author, Historian, Journalist
and Educator

“Anya is very talented, one of the best I have had the opportunity to work with. She is also a thoughtful strategist, which is a winning combination when it comes to developing goal-achieving marketing campaigns.”

Amy Bates,
Chief Marketing Officer,
Williams & Williams Auction

“Anya is a creative powerhouse, an amazing strategist and a skilled project manager. She is a trusted partner who I can count on to consistently deliver outstanding work and exceed my high expectations.”

Jody Ordioni,
Founder,
Brandemix

“If you're looking for someone who can take your ideas and vision for a project and turn it into a tangible, visually interesting product, I highly recommend working with Anya. She's easy to communicate with, provides regular updates and meets deadlines.”

Krista Hemme,
Communications Director
City of Broken Arrow

Dr. Clarence G. Oliver, Jr.,
Author, Historian, Journalist
and Educator

Jody Ordioni,
Founder,
Brandemix

Amy Bates,
Chief Marketing Officer,
Williams & Williams Auction

Krista Hemme,
Communications Director
City of Broken Arrow

Dr. Clarence G. Oliver, Jr.,
Author, Historian, Journalist
and Educator

Jody Ordioni,
Founder,
Brandemix

Amy Bates,
Chief Marketing Officer,
Williams & Williams Auction

Krista Hemme,
Communications Director
City of Broken Arrow

Writing + Insights

I believe good ideas
are worth sharing.

After 20 years in marketing, I've learned a lot about what makes brands work, what gets in their way, and what changes when companies get clear about what they believe. Writing gives me a place to test ideas, look more closely at what's changing, and share what I've learned about brand strategy, belief-led marketing, creativity, AI, leadership, and the realities of building marketing that has to perform in the real world.

IGNITE
My LinkedIn newsletter on branding, marketing, creativity, leadership, and the ideas reshaping our industry.
Social Media
Follow along for ideas, observations, conversations, and the occasional strong opinion on branding, marketing, creativity, AI, leadership, and the business of doing great work. It’s also the best place to connect with me and continue the conversation.
Medium
Long-form perspectives and essays on marketing, creativity, and business.
The Levo blog
Practical thinking on branding, digital marketing, advertising, design, AI, and growth.
Industry publications
Featured and bylined pieces across industry and third-party sites.

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Beyond Levo

Creativity has never
stopped at my desk.

Outside Levo, I keep creativity in my life in as many forms as I can. I'm an actress who regularly takes acting and improv classes, and a singer who performs in a competitive chorus and quartet and loves everything from jazz to rock. Performing keeps me curious about people, emotion, timing, and storytelling. Acting challenges me to see through someone else's eyes, improv keeps me present and responsive, and singing reminds me that individual voices are strongest when they listen and create something larger together. Those lessons find their way back into my creative work more often than I expect.

Travel does the same thing. My husband and I try to take one or two big trips every year, and I value the chance to experience other cultures, perspectives, visual languages, and ways of thinking. Seeing how other people live and communicate challenges assumptions and gives me new reference points to bring home to the work.

At home, life is happily less strategic. My husband and I share it with Gizmo, our Pomeranian, and Gracie, our senior cat. They are very good at making sure work doesn't become the only interesting thing in the room.

Questions about Anya

Here's a little more about
me and how I work.

Who is Anya Sleezer?

Anya Sleezer is the founder and creative strategist of Levo, a women-owned strategic marketing and creative agency based in Tulsa. Since beginning her marketing career in 2006, she has guided more than 100 companies across 20+ industries, including 13+ billion-dollar brands, and created Levo's RallyPoint brand strategy method.

What is Anya Sleezer known for?

Anya is known for combining brand strategy, marketing strategy, creative direction, and execution. Her work helps leadership and marketing teams clarify positioning, strengthen messaging, align brand and marketing decisions, and turn strategy into integrated campaigns and experiences.

What is the RallyPoint brand strategy method?

RallyPoint is the belief-based brand strategy method Anya created at Levo. A RallyPoint is the core belief a brand stands for and the reason people believe in what it does. The method uses four stages, Discover, Define, Design, and Deploy, to connect that belief to positioning, messaging, culture, creative, and marketing.

What kinds of companies does Anya work with?

Anya works with mid-sized brands, growing companies, nonprofits, mission-driven organizations, and larger enterprises that need senior-level brand strategy, integrated marketing strategy, creative direction, or additional marketing capacity. Her experience spans B2B, B2C, B2E, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, professional services, consumer brands, nonprofits and many more.

How can I work with Anya Sleezer or Levo?

The simplest way to start is with a complimentary 30-minute strategy session. Anya can help assess a brand or marketing challenge, identify where clarity or capacity is missing, and determine whether Levo is the right strategic marketing partner for the work.

If something you're working on has you stuck, let's talk.

Bring me the challenge, the messy brief, the stalled initiative, the ambitious goal, or the thing your team simply doesn't have the capacity to solve right now.

We'll start there.

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