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Flight Levels Training

Flight Levels is a groundbreaking thinking model that delivers a holistic approach to reenergize stalled transformations.

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Why Flight Levels?

The Flight Levels model achieves peak returns on your investments by boosting your organization's transformation efforts with outcome-driven engagement.

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Flight Levels
Empowering Organizational Agility

You have all the right pieces, Flight Levels helps you put it all together. Flight Levels works with any organizational framework to

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Flight Levels
For Agile Trainers

Agile teams don’t always lead to business agility. Flight Levels builds on your existing Agile service offerings by allowing you to

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Organizations That Have Found Success With Flight Levels

Flight Levels Training

The complete Flight Levels training program is designed to help you navigate and lead change in your organization. It doesn’t matter if you are working in Kanban, Scrum, SAFe or any other setup. Flight Levels will empower you to bring business agility into your environment.

Who Should Take Flight Levels Workshops?

Available Workshops

Introduction to Flight Levels

Gain a fundamental understanding of the Flight Levels Model and its foundations. Learn about Flight Levels based on a real case study. Apply your newly acquired knowledge in your own context. Get the required prerequisite knowledge to sign up for more advanced classes.

Flight Level 2 Design

Establish collaboration and manage resources better across teams, departments, products, or services. Discover what collaboration across your organization looks in reality. Learn how to design Flight Levels 2 Systems in your own context and where to focus first.

Introduction to Flight Levels

Design systems for strategy execution & align long-term company goals with daily operations. Make your strategy happen and free it from PowerPoint slides and wishy-washy chatter. Connect your strategy with delivery and put it into reality.

Flight Level Systems Architecture

Achieve business agility at scale with a systematic approach to organizational improvement. See your processes from a different perspective and improve your organization in a simple, pragmatic, and cost-effective way.

Flight Level Change Leadership

Enhance your approach to organizational change by executing Flight Levels initiatives at all levels. Expand your toolbox for leading larger change initiatives and take your organization to the next level.

Scheduled Workshops

FL2D: Achieving Flow At Scale via Value Stream Management

Are you battling with loads of dependencies, swamped by new requests, and planning the next cycle? Under pressure from your customers and stakeholders to deliver faster? The main impediment to flow is a lack of interaction between your teams, not the agility of individual teams. This course helps you uncover the big levers for improvement, and explores how you can practically apply them to your unique situation. We will focus coordinating the flow of value across multiple teams in a Department, Tribe, Product or Service area.

4 Day
Online event
October 6 - 9, 2025

FL3D: Strategic Portfolio Management with Flight Levels

Lacking visibility into your strategic portfolio? Finding out of problems and opportunities too late? Struggling with People “resisting” your change programs? This workshop will help you turn your strategy into action. Learn how to define effective outcomes and translate outcomes into action in a world of dependencies and specialists.

4 Day
Online event
April 7 - 10, 2025

FLSA: Powering Agile Transformations with Enterprise Kanban

Interested in taking more than 1 class in the next 9-12 months? Maximize your learning potential with our exclusive bundle training class offerings! Contact us for more information.

Your Flight Levels Guide

Craeg Strong has over 25 years of experience in information technology, ranging from his undergraduate studies at MIT to successful implementations of Agile and DevOps practices on enterprise-level commercial and government software projects. Due to his outstanding track record in Agile coaching, teaching, and facilitation, Mr. Strong is one of the first individuals in the United States selected by Flight Levels to teach certified classes.

What Our Clients Say About Us

“Ariel partners provided highly skilled instructors for each training class provided and managed the effort in a true “agile” fashion solidifying their expertise as agilists.”

William W
AFPEO BES

“Savant Financials (Ariel Partners) provided top-notch training in use of Atlassian’s the software to over 1,100 students in the Business and Engineering Systems Directorate (BES). Our transformation to agile software development and the Atlassian tools has benefited tremendously because of the highly skilled trainers provided on the effort.”

Audra P
USAF

“The instructor kept sessions going at the right intensity and was not dull at all. The whole class was great. The instructor was very informative.”

James T
Master Sergeant

“The combination of material for understanding patterns to help with our design, and a knowledgeable and talented trainer/guide made this an extremely valuable workshop for our organization. We are just getting started with Flight Levels and now have the tools needed to design FL3 systems working with the people IN the systems.”

Tony G
Agile Coach