The Sonesis Capability Journeys

Become more valuable. More effective. More employable.

Develop capabilities organizsations consistently struggle to find. 

Organizations are facing unprecedented uncertainty, AI disruption, constant change, overloaded teams, and increasing pressure to deliver results.

The people who thrive are not those who know the most frameworks.

They are the people who can diagnose problems, align people, improve workflow, adapt to change, and help organizations improve themselves.

Learn what to do when:

  • “We keep solving symptoms instead of causes.”
  • “Everything takes too long.”
  • “People resist change.”
  • “Requirements keep changing.”
  • “Our teams are overloaded.”
  • “We’re building things but not getting results.”
  • “AI is making us faster but not better.”

Become someone who can:

Meet the needss most organizations consistently struggle to find:

  • Diagnose problems before prescribing solutions.
  • Improve workflow and reduce delays.
  • Reduce overload and multitasking.
  • Align work with stakeholder value.
  • Manage uncertainty effectively.
  • Influence change without authority.
  • Help others learn.
  • Improve decision-making.
  • Build organizational capability
  • Improve decision-making.

These are the capabilities you will be able to achieve.

In addition you’ll learn how to influence without authority.

For $49 / month you can learn the following – and do it at your own pace.

We have 3 learning sessions each week This means you can learn with a mix of live sessions, recorded sessions, Q&A 3 times a week, and AI support 24/7. Depending upon your learning style, you can learn any of the topics at the pace you want to.

    1. How to use AI to increase your capability.
    2. How to determine what the real problem
    3. How to stop mechanical Scrum How to speak to management and feature factories.
    4. How to get a stalled SAFe adoption going again.
    5. How to create stakeholder alignment without endless meetings.
    6. How to influence people when you don’t have authority.
    7. How to make better decisions under uncertainty.
    8. How to help people see what they are not seeing.
    9. How to get requirements in a way that doesn’t cause rework as they emerge.
    10. How to improve an organization without creating change fatigue.
    11. How to know when a practice should be adapted instead of followed.
    12. How to help people see what they are not seeing.
    13. How to speak to management
    14. How to create effective team structures (think Team Topologies, only more flexible).
    15. How to avoid resistance in people when trying to guide improvement

    We do this via ensemble learing and other modern training methods. 

    Why These Capabilities Matter

    Organizations increasingly need people who can:

    • Diagnose before prescribing.
    • Navigate uncertainty.
    • Align stakeholders.
    • Improve how work flows.
    • Use AI effectively.
    • Develop capability in others.

    These abilities are difficult to find, difficult to teach, and increasingly valuable in an AI-driven world.

    How You’ll Develop Them

    • Learn the “physics of flow” based on Flow, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints.
    • Learn how people listen, react, and resist so you can help others without getting resistance.
    • Learn how to teach and coach people effectively.
    • Learn how to adapt good practices to your situation.
    • Learn how to make better decisions based on the above.
    • Learn how to deal with uncertainty.
    • Learn Jobs to be Done and Objective stories to mostly eliminate the waste of discovering what is needed.
    • Learn how to use AI to make better decisions.

    Learn how the Sonesis Capability Journeys work by going here. 

     

    The Different Journeys Available

    Individual ACS Journey

    Who This Is For

    Individuals who want to become more effective in their current role or prepare themselves for greater responsibilities.

    Who You’ll Become

    You’ll become someone others rely on when problems need to be understood and solved. Someone who can diagnose problems before jumping to solutions, understand how work actually flows, make better decisions under uncertainty, and use AI to continuously increase your capability.

    You’ll be able to see opportunities, constraints, and causes that others often miss.

    Organizations value people who can improve situations, not just participate in them.

    What You Get

    • Access to all ACS learning materials
    • Live and recorded sessions. Live attendance at specialized workshops are not included. All recordings of these sessions are included.
    • AmpGPT for interaction-driven learning and role-playing
    • Virtual collaboration Boards
    • Self-paced learning path

    The cost for this program is $49 / month.

    Learn more about this program here. 

    Each level in this sequence builds on the prior one. As your capability grows, so do the opprortunities available to you.

    Internal Transition Agents, Consultants, and Coaches

    Who This Is For

    People responsible for helping others improve.

    This includes internal change agents, Agile coaches, consultants, Scrum Masters, transformation leaders, managers, and improvement professionals.

    Who You’ll Become

    You’ll become someone capable of helping people improve without creating resistance, of diagnosing organizational challenges, adapting practices to different situations, and guiding meaningful change.

    Rather than relying on prescribed methods, you’ll learn how to understand what is happening and determine what will work in your specific context.

    Organizations value people who can create improvement that lasts.

    What You Get

    Everything in the Individual Journey plus:

    • License-free internal use of course materials while enrolled
    • Train the Trainer program
    • Guidance on facilitating workshops and learning experiences
    • Deeper coaching and diagnostic capability development

    Learn more about this program here. 

    The cost for this program is $595 for six months. Register here.

    Sonesis Capability Engineer (ACE) Partners

    Who This Is For

    Experienced consultants, coaches, and leaders who want to help organizations become more capable while building a consulting or advisory practice around the Sonesis Capability System.

    Who You’ll Become

    You’ll become the person organizations call when improvement efforts stall, transformation initiatives struggle, or nobody can figure out what’s really happening.

    Someone organizations rely on to help them improve how they create value, develop their people, and continuously strengthen their ability to adapt and improve.

    You’ll learn how to combine systems thinking, perceptual dynamics, learning dynamics, diagnostics, adaptive practices, and AI into a coherent approach for organizational improvement.

    Rather than selling frameworks, you’ll be helping organizations develop the capability to solve their own problems.

    What You Get

    Everything in the Internal Transition Agent Journey plus:

    • Direct collaboration with Al Shalloway
    • Opportunities to partner on engagements
    • Public workshop opportunities
    • Participation in the ongoing development of Sonesis
    • Access to the ACE community and network

    Fees for this program is $895 / six months.

    Contact Al Shalloway if interested in joining this progam.

    How You Learn to Do This

    Sonesis Capability Journeys (SCJs) are guided paths for developing real organizational capability through interaction, application, and improvement. Rather than focusing on training people in a predefined method, SCJs are designed to help individuals and organizations build the ability to diagnose situations, solve meaningful problems, and improve how work is performed. Each journey combines practical guidance, real-world application, and interaction with Sonesis/AI to help people strengthen their capabilities in context—not just learn concepts in isolation.

    Every SCJ is grounded in the core dynamics that underlie effective organizational improvement: how work flows through systems, how people perceive and interpret situations, how capability develops over time, and how organizations respond to uncertainty. Some journeys focus on improving value streams and organizational flow. Others focus on developing the capability to guide improvement in others, conduct diagnostics, improve product management, or strengthen organizational alignment. While each journey has a different focus, all are built around the same principle: capability develops most effectively through guided interaction with real situations, supported by reflection, feedback, and incremental improvement.

    Capabilities by role

    • Organization improver
    • Those working in SAFe
    • Coach. Learn how to go well beyond faciliation and be able to guide people in becoming more effective. 
    • Product manager.
    • Manager. Learn where to look when things fail.  Understand how to manage uncertainty.
    • Team lead. Learn the physics of flow and how to coach. This enables you to be much more effective regardless of whether you’re using your own approach, Scrum, or SAFe.
    • Practitioner. By understanding the physics of flow you’ll naturally become more effective. 

    All participants get access to all of the content. Thee capabilities and sub-journeys are provided to give specific insights. 

    Sub-journeys included in one or more of the above

    These are more topic based and are often needed by one or more of the roles above.