What and who is semdi solutions?

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.

How are we different?

 

Many transformation efforts focus on processes, roles, and rituals first. semdi starts deeper.

We help organizations improve the quality of interaction, learning, and collaboration behind the work. Because most delivery problems are not caused by missing frameworks alone, but by silent follower cultures, weak cross-team learning, unclear leadership behavior, and structures that block adaptability.

Our work combines Agile, Lean, Flow, Systems Thinking, and practical leadership development. But we do not treat these as isolated methods. We use them to help organizations become more adaptive, more collaborative, and more authentic in how they work together.

That means:

  • less surface-level transformation
  • more real learning
  • more honest collaboration
  • more sustainable change

We do not just introduce practices. We help organizations build the conditions in which those practices can actually work.

 

Collaborate with us risk-free

Risk-free partnership

Cancel anytime if it’s not delivering value.

Real, lasting change

We focus on shifts that stick, not short-term fixes.

Long-term results

Build systems and habits that keep improving after we’re gone.

In-house partner

We work with you, not above, below or besides you.

Culturally adaptive

Cross-cultural team with 60+ years combined experience
90 +

Asian and global clients we helped to become more agile.
13 +

Countries our clients call home, connecting across borders.
12 +

Months of trusted collaboration on average, with lasting impact.
16 +

Years pioneering agile ways of working in Southeast Asia.
  • Nicolas Embleton
    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 Bennett
    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
  • Xavier Malparty
    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
  • Dave Hajdu
    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
  • James Galvin
    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
  • Daniel Campbell
    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
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Who is behind semdi solutions?

Chris Kruppa

Agile Coach & Managing Partner; Founder


Oanh Do

Agile Coach & Managing Partner; Co-Founder


Nicolas Embleton

Agile Coach, Advisor


Wahid Nurdin

Agile Coach


Our cooperation partners

Having been in the industry for over 10 years, Cekindo is the trusted counsellor, advisor, and business partner to many business leaders and organisations across all industries.

'E&G Training offers any form of Corporate training to improve English and soft skills for professionals.'

'Asia PMO is a digital transformation & agile consulting company to enable clients to succeed in fast-changing & customer-centric markets'

'Supporting organizations in bringing their agile transformation to the next level.'

 

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