Flight Levels Creator
Dr. Klaus Leopold
Klaus is a computer scientist, management consultant, systems thinker and creator of Flight Levels. He helps organizations around the world make work steerable across teams, levels and value streams.
PhD in Computer Science · Founder of the Flight Levels Academy and LEANability · Author of Flight Levels, Rethinking Agile, Practical Kanban and other books
Organizations do not improve just because individual parts move faster.
Klaus works with organizations that do not need another local methodology rollout, but a better way to connect strategy, coordination and delivery. His focus is the work system: What gets prioritized? How do decisions flow? Where do dependencies emerge? And why does so much activity still produce too little finished value?
His experience across many industries helps teams and leaders spot typical wrong turns early. That is often the real value: not creating more activity, but avoiding expensive detours and making the next useful step visible.
Flight Levels
Make work steerable across teams, levels and value streams.
Klaus created Flight Levels to help organizations move beyond local optimization and make strategy execution practical.
Understand Flight LevelsExperience
Pragmatism instead of transformation theatre.
Many problems look new, but are variations of patterns seen before. Klaus brings the experience to recognize these patterns faster and make them manageable.
Go to the design programAI and organization
AI should improve the work system, not just accelerate isolated tasks.
When AI only automates local blindness, it becomes expensive. Klaus treats AI as an organizational question: where does it create real value in the overall system?
Read the insights
Work with Klaus
Training and design work for real organizational problems
In trainings, Klaus makes the thinking, language and tools of Flight Levels tangible. In the design program, the focus is your own context: value streams, strategy work, coordination problems and the question of how work systems actually improve.
The common denominator is pragmatism: no framework show, no generic roadmap, but work on the actual system.
Thinking models for business agility, Flight Levels and flow
Klaus' books are the deeper entry point for people who want to understand why team agility is not enough and how better work systems emerge.
Keynotes and impulses for leadership, product and transformation
Klaus speaks about Flight Levels, strategy execution, flow, AI and how organizations can steer work effectively across teams.
Current thinking
Insights instead of silver bullets
On LEANability, Klaus publishes articles and thinking models on Flight Levels, AI, strategy execution, flow and effective organizational development.