About Us
About Kaizenko
Kaizenko provides public, private, and corporate training, coaching, and consulting services in Leadership Development, Product Management, and Agile Engineering, to help teams and organizations innovate and continuously deliver products that delight their customers.
Our Leadership Development training and coaching program helps you build, inspire, scale, sustain, and lead high-performing teams and resilient organizations.
Our Product Management training and coaching program helps you innovate and build impactful products that delight your customers and exceed your business goals.
Our Agile Engineering training and coaching program helps you deliver early and often highly reliable products that are easy to maintain and update.
Kaizenko is also a Scrum Alliance® Registered Education Provider (REP) and provides certified Scrum training for Developers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters. 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.
About Fadi Stephan
Founder
Fadi Stephan is a technology executive and management consultant with more than 25 years of experience at startups, government agencies, non-profits, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. Fadi’s focus is on building high-performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver impactful products early and maximize ROI. Fadi’s expertise is in Agile adoption, product management, and agile engineering practices.
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 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
“The CSM course offered me an insight into the power of persuasion and servant leadership a scrum master plays in teams.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A new way of thinking and great way to learn the material.”
“The information was presented in an easy to understand, comprehensive, engaging format. The interaction was integral to understanding and was very appreciated.”
“As someone new to Agile and Scrum, this made for a great, comprehensive introduction. I would recommend this course to everyone.”
“Introduced to a different way about thinking about Scrum and teamwork. It put my previous experience in a different perspective.”
“Learned a lot! Enough where I see things I need to change at my company regarding our ‘Scrum’ process.”
“I’m confident that I will pass the exam on the 1st attempt from what I learned during this course.”
“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.”
“Best collaboration activities ever seen. Innate approach to submerging students inside scrum experience gave unique learning experience.”
“I really enjoyed taking this class. It cleared certain misconceptions I had about certain Scrum topics.”
“Very knowledgeable instructor, good class exercises, and instructor encouraged discussions. The whole experience was fun and solidified my learning and thinking.”
“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.”
“The class demystified Scrum for us. Fadi patiently answered our questions and made us believe this is possible for us.”
“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.”
“Fadi did an excellent job in helping me understand Scrum and get certified.”
“Fadi is an outstanding professional who is passionate about training and imparting knowledge. Totally recommend him!”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have spent about 6 years on “Agile” teams with varying implementations. Very helpful to re-baseline what I thought I knew about Scrum.”
“The activities presented in the this course helped increase our Scrum knowledge in a fun and interactive manner.”
“Highly recommended to anyone at any level of Scrum experience.”
“This course was a great overview of Scrum and a useful deep dive into the role of a Product Owner.”
“Would gladly take another one of Fadi’s classes.”
“Excellent job of reviewing the content and engaging participants throughout the training.”
“Fadi was excellent at answering questions on the fly. He’s very knowledgeable.”
“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.”
“It was a highly engaging class focused on practical skills to make you a better Scrum Team Member”
“Every new hire developer should be required to take this class.”
“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.”
“Well paced. Excellent structure with real world examples and group activities to enforce the learning objectives.”
“It was a great experience in collaboration and learning.”
“Excellent teacher, knows ins and outs of Scrum and Agile. Extremely helpful and patient with our group.”
“Fadi has a wealth of knowledge and experience and does a great job addressing questions.”
“Learning by practicing. Games, simulations and exercises. Concise and simple ways to explain the material.”
“The cradle to grave walk-through of a PO role was very helpful.”
“This course gave me concrete examples that I can immediately apply to my company’s scrum process.”
Great course!
“Great course with plenty of interactive activities to help develop a good foundation of Agile and Scrum.”
“Fadi was awesome. He kept us engaged and provided good context on the material.”
“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.”
“Practical learning and real world practical examples to prepare for what you will encounter.”
“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.”
“Engaging, personable, and professional from start to finish. It was a pleasure to have Fadi as our instructor.”