Kostiantyn Gridin

Partner at CFC Big Ideas

Kostiantyn joined CFC Big Ideas in 2003. His primary responsibilities for the company are organizational development, operational management, HR policies, and business development strategy. A fluent speaker of Arabic, Kostiantyn has spent more than 13 years travelling around and living in the GCC countries, and now heads the company’s operations in Dubai, UAE.

Kostiantyn oversees the company’s BIG IDEA project — the Global Inclusion Online Forum — which has become an integral part of the company’s diversity & inclusion consultancy practice.

Passionate about efficiency and organizational performance Kostiantyn created several management tools that have helped bring the company’s performance to a new level. Among them are unbiased hiring and humanless promotion systems, flexible remote work system, inclusive financial compensation system, and others.

Kostiantyn is a graduate of the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry program at Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University (USA). He also holds B. A. and M. A. degrees in International Economic Relations from the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). Kostiantyn was a grant recipient of the exchange program in Cairo University, Egypt.