YOUR GROWTH PARTNER.

Long before anyone was watching, Larnelle Hardy was already competing on a national stage, twice over, in two different arenas.

Act first, build something real, then use what you learn to help others grow.

The first was athletic. In 2011, still a kid from Washington, DC, Larnelle competed in the AAU Junior Olympic Games in the Boys' Outdoor Pentathlon, representing his city against the best in the country. It was an early lesson in what it takes to perform when the stakes are national, not local.

The second was technical. As a student at McKinley Technology High School, he landed a student internship at Microsoft, an early look at how large-scale technology gets designed, shipped, and iterated. While there, he served as a mentor for Microsoft's national Hour of Code initiative, teaching other students to code. That mentorship is what caught the attention of a Washington Post reporter, who featured him in December 2014, well ahead of his classmates.

That Microsoft internship became the seed for what came next: rapid, compounding growth. In 2015, while studying cybersecurity and business at Capitol Technology University and American University, Larnelle turned it into T-Street Games, a gaming venture he co-founded with four IT students. He personally convinced Microsoft to invest in his team, purchasing office space at 1776, the downtown DC startup hub, for them to build in. That experience pulled him from building games into building low-code software applications for marketing, the same track that led to his Pega CSA certification. In 2018, that shift became Goodmen Promotions, founded with four IT students on the conviction that small businesses deserved the same caliber of growth infrastructure that enterprise companies quietly built behind closed doors. Alongside it, he spent years building a corporate sales and client-success career, most recently leading a department at 51Blocks, experience that now feeds directly into how he runs Goodmen Enterprises.

All of that business building has run alongside a second, equally consistent thread: building people. Larnelle is a graduate of On-Ramps to Careers, a Washington DC workforce development nonprofit that has shaped the careers of thousands of DC young people. He spent time on staff there as Alumni Relations Manager, now serves on its Board of Directors, runs Goodmen Enterprises' corporate partnership hosting a six-week summer internship for DC high schoolers, and chairs its Alumni Association, a full-circle story that earned him the organization's 2025 Alumni of the Year award. He's also co-founded initiatives bringing AI education directly to inner-city youth.