Making agile work for people

Build a team that works better together, moves faster, and handles change with confidence.

All you really want is to keep your company relevant in a world that keeps changing.

But old structures and ineffective leadership keep getting in the way. Teams slow down, fear of falling behind grows, and the vision gets trapped at the top, when it should live in everyone.
Most consultancies sound like a broken record: Implement Scrum, SAFe, or LeSS and everything will be fine. But we both know it’s not that simple.
We understand how exhausting it is to lead change when no one seems to follow. Top managers feel isolated, repeating the same messages without progress, while teams feel tired and disconnected from yet another transformation.
Both sides want the same thing — a company that moves forward together — yet they remain stuck in a cycle of fatigue and frustration.

Agile does not start with the framework

semdi helps organizations build more adaptive, authentic, and collaborative ways of working, so change leads to real learning instead of surface-level compliance.
We help in the following 3 dimensions:

We are your partner on the inside

Change feels meaningful and not frustrating

We work directly with your teams where the real work happens — no endless slides, just hands-on practices built around your people.

Teams take ownership sustainably

People don’t resist change — only being changed. We help teams own it and make impact that lasts.

Leadership earns its name

With 17+ years in Southeast Asia, we help leaders stay relevant, connected, and trusted across cultures.

All that, risk-free. There’s no minimum contract length — and you can cancel anytime if you’re not seeing the results you need.

And all that just 3 steps away

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Book a Free Consultation Call

Talk with us about your goals and challenges — no pressure, just clarity.

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Get a Tailored Action Plan

We assess your situation and design a practical roadmap to improve performance and engagement.

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Implement and See Results

Work with us to apply agile ways of working that stick — and watch your teams take ownership.

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Creating organizations that matter for over 13 years

We get it, because we’ve been doing this for over 13 years.

Change is hard - not because people don’t care, but because the systems around them make work harder than it should be. Many organizations care deeply about their teams yet feel caught between pressure from the markets and fatigue in the teams. They want to move forward, but old structures and ways of working slow everything down.

That’s where semdi solutions comes in.
Founded by Chris Kruppa, we help organizations turn complexity into clarity. Over the past 13 years, we’ve worked with companies across Asia and beyond to build systems that foster learning, trust, and ownership — so teams can move faster, grow stronger, and rediscover meaning in their work.

And the learning never stops. The name semdi comes from “semper disce” — Latin for “always learn.” Because we believe every organization can grow when people have the space to learn, adapt, and lead with purpose.

90 +

Asian and global clients we helped to become more agile.

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Countries our clients call home, connecting across borders.

12 +

Months of trusted collaboration on average, with lasting impact.

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Years pioneering agile ways of working in Southeast Asia.

Learn more in our case studies

From Market Silos to Collaborative Leadership

Turning Values into Lived Experiences

Turning Multi-Bank Complexity Into Clarity

Chris and Semdi have been instrumental in helping us build a strong product and agile organization. From their wonderful Management 3.0 training, ad hoc product workshops and continuous training of key members, it has been a pleasure to work with Semdi - our ongoing "Agile Companion" in our journey to be as Agile as possible, one week at a time.
Nicolas Embleton
Scratchpay
Chris has used a number of different coaching techniques for over six months to help our team leads focus on value and agile ways of thinking and working. Each interaction is tailored to the group or individual he is working with and he takes into account their motivations and the culture of the organization. Over time their confidence has increased and our practices are more coherent and aligned. I addition we have found the Management 3.0 training to be of great value for team spirit and growing new leaders.
Chris Bennett
Tyme Global
Chris is definitely a passionate person! From big scale projects to the most little details, he did on-board and continue to foster our teams into a great value-oriented agile mindset! Working with semdi solutions is also an opportunity to challenge our management methods with the Management 3.0 certification and to meet great people from the Agile Community in Vietnam.
Xavier Malparty
Mantu
semdi worked for 2 years directly with our software teams to ensure the implementation of all Scrum practices as a Trainer, Scrum Master and Coach. He made an impact by improving the deliveries at every end of the sprint as well as helped us evaluate and implement a team lead program. Chris was engaged with all levels in across the organization and took care to include our organization’s values within his teaching.
Dave Hajdu
Tinypulse
semdi provided organisational development consulting and agile coaching to our company for 2 years. Chris made an immediate impact upon joining, restored team spirit and helped us to put a working process in place. Over the longer term, he continued to coach our teams to promote a transparent culture focused on continuous learning. Chris is a passionate leader who genuinely cares for our team members and the work that we are doing.
James Galvin
vsource
Chris and the team at Semdi have been a huge support in helping improve our agile processes as a team, as well as very positive results from their individual coaching sessions with some of our members. Chris has a great way of helping to boost the confidence of each individual member of the team, providing them with different methods to implement as part of their role in helping to improve our agile process.
Daniel Campbell
Codelink.io