About Us
Kaizenko is a Scrum Alliance® Registered Education Provider (REP) delivering public and corporate certified Scrum training and Agile coaching to help individuals, teams and organizations accelerate their Agile journey in order to transform, innovate and deliver impactful products.
Scrum Alliance was founded in 2001, and is the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community. As a nonprofit association with more than 1 million practitioners worldwide, it guides Agile practitioners through every step of their journey, providing Advocacy, Community, and Education.
Kaizenko’s certification classes follow a staged, two-year journey that allows participants to choose an educational track between ScrumMaster, Product Owner or Developer. The model combines progressive in class training with work experience to help participants improve core Scrum knowledge, build skill sets, and acquire the necessary tools to evolve as Agile practitioners, from Scrum foundations to advanced practice to Certified Scrum Professional. Check out all of our classes here.





Fadi Stephan
Founder
Fadi Stephan is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), Agile Coach, and technology consultant with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. His focus is on building high performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver value early and maximize ROI. Prior to founding Kaizenko, Fadi led the Software Development Practice at Excella Consulting as well as their Digital Services Solutions. Before that, he was Director of Product Development at DATABASICS.
In 2014, Fadi became 1 of only 170 trainers worldwide to earn the distinguished Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) designation from the Scrum Alliance and became authorized to deliver public and private Scrum Alliance certification classes.
Fadi’s background is in technology consulting and product development. He has successfully led digital transformations by combining lean discovery with Agile delivery and a DevOps mindset to deliver impactful digital experiences. At client sites, Fadi trains and coaches teams on agility, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevOps.
Fadi is a recognized Agile thought leader that frequently presents at Agile and Scrum conferences worldwide. He is also the founder and co-organizer of DC’s largest Scrum User Group.
When Fadi is not teaching or coaching, he enjoys skiing, cycling, as well as diving.
What Our Students Are Saying
“I really enjoyed this class. The time flew by as Fadi made the course interactive and fun. Fadi is extremely knowledgeable and I am very happy with my experience.”
“Every new hire developer should be required to take this class.”
“Very knowledgeable instructor, good class exercises, and instructor encouraged discussions. The whole experience was fun and solidified my learning and thinking.”
“Well paced. Excellent structure with real world examples and group activities to enforce the learning objectives.”
“Learning by practicing. Games, simulations and exercises. Concise and simple ways to explain the material.”
“The CSM course offered me an insight into the power of persuasion and servant leadership a scrum master plays in teams.”
“The cradle to grave walk-through of a PO role was very helpful.”
“Best collaboration activities ever seen. Innate approach to submerging students inside scrum experience gave unique learning experience.”
“Fadi was excellent at answering questions on the fly. He’s very knowledgeable.”
“Highly recommended to anyone at any level of Scrum experience.”
“The information was presented in an easy to understand, comprehensive, engaging format. The interaction was integral to understanding and was very appreciated.”
“Fadi is an outstanding professional who is passionate about training and imparting knowledge. Totally recommend him!”
“I really enjoyed taking this class. It cleared certain misconceptions I had about certain Scrum topics.”
“I have spent about 6 years on “Agile” teams with varying implementations. Very helpful to re-baseline what I thought I knew about Scrum.”
“Introduced to a different way about thinking about Scrum and teamwork. It put my previous experience in a different perspective.”
“It was a great experience in collaboration and learning.”
“Engaging, personable, and professional from start to finish. It was a pleasure to have Fadi as our instructor.”
“Practical learning and real world practical examples to prepare for what you will encounter.”
“This course was extremely valuable as a new product manager. I’ve learned essential skills as product owner that I will take and implement at my job.”
“Throughout my whole career I thought I was in a Scrum environment, and following best practices as a member of the dev team. Through this training I have learned that there are improvements to be made and I am confident that I can implement that changes with the tools I’ve learned in this CSD course.”
“One of my concerns with certifications is they can be highly theoretical and difficult to apply in one’s personal work context. This CSM course avoids this trap by using Scrum to run the class itself, and giving students lots of practical experience with the Scrum events, artifacts and agile principles.”
“It was a highly engaging class focused on practical skills to make you a better Scrum Team Member”
“As someone new to Agile and Scrum, this made for a great, comprehensive introduction. I would recommend this course to everyone.”
“This course gave me concrete examples that I can immediately apply to my company’s scrum process.”
“Fadi has a wealth of knowledge and experience and does a great job addressing questions.”
“The course is a great opportunity for all agile practitioners (not just Scrum Masters) to refresh on key concepts of Scrum and introduce improvements to their daily work and team collaboration. I highly recommend it.”
“Learned a lot! Enough where I see things I need to change at my company regarding our ‘Scrum’ process.”
“Excellent job of reviewing the content and engaging participants throughout the training.”
“Would gladly take another one of Fadi’s classes.”
“I appreciate the step by step approach to coding. The content of the course was also excellent and clear, and there are a number of things I feel comfortable implementing in my work in the next 3 months.”
“The class demystified Scrum for us. Fadi patiently answered our questions and made us believe this is possible for us.”
“Fadi did an excellent job in helping me understand Scrum and get certified.”
“Excellent teacher, knows ins and outs of Scrum and Agile. Extremely helpful and patient with our group.”
“This course was a great overview of Scrum and a useful deep dive into the role of a Product Owner.”
“Fadi’s class took me through a deeper dive into scrum. It taught me the principals and gave me the confidence to facilitate as a proper servant leader in my role as ScrumMaster.”
“Awesome preliminary course to start your Agile journey. Course Content is very effective and instructor is awesome in his teaching style where complex Scrum situations are simplified.”
“The activities presented in the this course helped increase our Scrum knowledge in a fun and interactive manner.”
“I thought I had sufficient idea about Scrum before the course, but I now have a complete appreciation for the approach.”
“The group activities were really helpful to breakdown the PO toolbox.”
“Fadi was awesome. He kept us engaged and provided good context on the material.”
“This was such a helpful course. Fadi had a wealth of real world knowledge that gave great context for the info in the course. There were also a lot of hands-on activities that where really useful.”
Great course!
“Great course with plenty of interactive activities to help develop a good foundation of Agile and Scrum.”
“I’m confident that I will pass the exam on the 1st attempt from what I learned during this course.”
“A new way of thinking and great way to learn the material.”
“I realized quickly that I first learned fake Scrum in previous roles and needed help to learn it the right way. Fadi was a good teacher.”