Flight Levels Academy

🎙 New Episode: Inside Flight Levels® 💡 From Agile Disillusionment to Real Impact – The German Broadcasting Archive’s Flight Levels Journey How do you bring real agility to life in a large, established organization – beyond buzzwords and frameworks? In this episode of Inside Flight Levels, Klaus Leopold and Markus Brandl take you behind the scenes of the German Broadcasting Archive. Together with Anja Hartkopf and Andreas Dan, they share their journey from agile disillusionment to organization-wide value streams and value creation with Flight Levels. 👉 Watch or listen to the full episode: 🎧 Apple Podcasts (DE): https://lnkd.in/d6XYQemB 🎧 Spotify (DE): https://lnkd.in/dKp3N9aQ ▶️ YouTube (Video, DE / EN / ES subtitles): https://lnkd.in/dwQ6c2w5 #FlightLevels #InsideFlightLevels #DeutschesRundfunkarchiv

The German Broadcasting Archive tried to fix their problems with Agile. It didn’t go well. More teams, more roles, more complexity – and less flow. Sound familiar? That’s when they discovered Flight Levels. Instead of changing people, they changed how the work moved through the organization. They visualized their value streams, saw where coordination broke, and learned one simple truth: → Limiting WIP across the value stream delivers faster than pushing harder. Today, they deliver faster, work calmer, and collaborate for real. We tell their full story in our latest newsletter – plus a fresh blog post on why AI is still stuck at Flight Level 0 (and what it would take to make it useful at Flight Levels 2 and 3). If you care about real organizational flow, not just faster typing – you’ll want to read this one. 👇 Link to the newsletter in the comments. #FlightLevels #OrganizationalFlow #Agile #AI #Leadership #FlightLevelsProfessional

We’re excited to welcome Thomas Spadzinski as a new Flight Levels Professional®! 🎉 After several years of hands-on work with Flight Levels, Thomas wanted to take his practice to the next level. Here’s how he describes his experience: “I experienced the program as highly professional, yet delivered in an open and relaxed atmosphere. What stood out to me was how deeply both the professional and human dimensions of organizational dynamics were explored. The insights I gained have equipped me with even clearer tools to navigate my work within organizational contexts — and to enable people to collaborate on the right topics at the right time.” Thomas brings deep experience from corporate software environments and a mindset focused on real flow - across processes, people, and organizational levels. We’re proud to have him in the global Flight Levels Professional community! 👇 Read the full story in the Flight Levels Radar (link in comments).

🚀 New on Flight Levels® Insights! Looks like AI just invented a new Flight Level 😅 In his latest article, Klaus Leopold takes a sharp (and funny) look at how today’s AI hype drags us currently back to individual productivity obsession – what he calls Flight Level 0. From “faster emails” to “instant presentations” – it all feels efficient, but systemically? It’s just faster chaos. Curious what real impact beyond Flight Level 0 could look like? 👇 Read Klaus’ full article in the first comment! #AI #Productivity #FlightLevels #ChaosManagement #DigitalTransformation #SystemicThinking #WorkplaceEfficiency

🎙️ Inside Flight Levels – The Official Flight Levels Podcast is here! How do you steer your organization effectively? How do you make sure strategy, coordination, and execution truly connect – without adding more meetings, frameworks, or overhead? In the new podcast Inside Flight Levels, Klaus Leopold (Creator of Flight Levels) and Markus Brandl (Co-Founder of Flight Levels GmbH) reveal how organizations achieve real impact – with clear insights, honest stories from real practice, and inspiring guests from the world of modern organizational leadership. 🎧 Why now? Because organizations today need orientation more than ever – not to do more, but to coordinate more effectively. 🧭 What to expect: • Real-life stories and examples • Deep insights into the world of Flight Levels • Straight talk about what actually works (and what doesn’t) • Inspiration for leaders and anyone driving meaningful progress 📺 Tune in now and don’t miss an episode: 🎧 Available in German on ➡️ Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/d5D_usBX ➡️ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d2RBYCU4 📹 And in video format on YouTube (with English and Spanish subtitles) https://lnkd.in/dNxxHeDd 📢 Subscribe now to Inside Flight Levels on your preferred channel – and never miss a beat. You won’t get any closer to the topic of Flight Levels than this. 🚀 #FlightLevels #InsideFlightLevels

⏰ Extended Offer – One More Week! We recently launched our new bonus for all self-paced core workshops: 2× 30-minute coaching sessions with a Flight Levels Professional®. The offer was supposed to end on October 7, but several of you asked for a short extension to arrange group enrollments and budget approvals – fair enough! So here you go: 👉 -20% on all core self-paced workshops until October 14 Just book your workshop and use code FLCORE20 at checkout. FL2D – Flight Level 2 Design FL3D – Flight Level 3 Design FLSA – Flight Levels Systems Architecture 👇 Links in the comments

🚀 Big news from the Flight Levels Academy! We’ve launched our first-ever tool partnership with Businessmap (formerly Kanbanize) 🤝 Together we’re taking Flight Levels to the next level – bringing AI-powered strategy execution to life across strategy, coordination, and delivery. In our latest newsletter, we share why Businessmap was the perfect first partner, how Flight Levels come alive in the tool, and how you can get an exclusive 30-day extended trial. You’ll also find details about the live event on October 14 🎯 where Businessmap unveils its bold new AI vision. 👇 Full story in the first comment. #FlightLevels #Businessmap #StrategyExecution #AI

🚀 Big news for the Flight Levels community! With Businessmap (formerly Kanbanize), Flight Levels is launching its first official "Trusted Tool Partnership". The shared mindset behind this collaboration is clear: Tooling + Guidance = World-Class Work Systems. With Release 12, Businessmap now fully supports the Flight Levels architecture – from strategy to delivery: ✅ Strategic alignment (FL3) – collaborate on outcomes with AI whiteboards and visible workflows ✅ Coordination across teams (FL2) – manage dependencies, capacity, and bottlenecks effortlessly ✅ Smooth team delivery (FL1) – Kanban, Scrum, or hybrid – your flow, your choice 🎥 Join the free Businessmap Live Event – October 14 For those who want to go deeper: join Businessmap’s live event to discover their bold new vision for AI-powered strategy execution through Flight Levels. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dkJ7Z6fx 💡 Exclusive for the Flight Levels community Try Businessmap with an extended 30-day trial and experience it with your real work – not demo data. 👉 Start your extended trial: https://lnkd.in/dK6zFegg This partnership marks an important step forward: because while tools aren’t magic, the right ones can make Flight Levels come alive in everyday work.

⏰ Extended Offer – One More Week! We recently launched our new bonus for all self-paced core workshops: 2× 30-minute coaching sessions with a Flight Levels Professional®. The offer was supposed to end on October 7, but several of you asked for a short extension to arrange group enrollments and budget approvals – fair enough! So here you go: 👉 -20% on all core self-paced workshops until October 14 Just book your workshop and use code FLCORE20 at checkout. FL2D – Flight Level 2 Design FL3D – Flight Level 3 Design FLSA – Flight Levels Systems Architecture 👇 Links in the comments

Our Flight Levels Professional® Russell Hill just shared some of his Flight Levels Insights: “Stop Fixing Teams. Start Fixing Flow.” In short: Russ argues that the usual fix-every-team mindset is failing us. Instead of focusing on optimizing each team in isolation, we should shift attention to how work flows across boundaries — coordination, dependencies, interactions. Only when the work flows can teams truly deliver value. If you’ve ever felt stuck despite “empowering teams,” or seen siloed efficiency that doesn’t translate into outcomes — this article reads like a mirror. Curious to dig in further? (Link in first comment 👇)