Our tours include
Visit to Offices 
Face-to-Face Meetings with Senior Leaders 
Presentations & Specialized workshops
Why Executive Study Tours?
The key factor of the world’s biggest companies’ success’ is their talent management. Their innovations, record revenues, and amazing products were made by people they managed to hire, motivate and retain. Their senior leaders share small pieces of their talent management wisdom in their public speeches, while most of their knowledge remains hidden behind their closed doors. The only way to get their in-depth knowledge is through trusted in-person conversations with their leadership teams.
Our Executive Study Tours present a unique opportunity of in-depth learning of people management from global leaders in the field. Since 2008, we have conducted over 100 Executive Study Tours to the most people-oriented global companies: Netflix, Zappos, Google, Meta and many others. Many tour participants were able to use that knowledge to solidify the leadership in their core markets.
Executive Study Tours are for
CEOs
COO’s
CHRO’s
other C-suite leaders
of companies with 200+ employees
How we work
Dmitry Bondar – Founder at Fast Forward – the first European company to organize 100+ executive study tours to the world’s best companies in the USA, Japan, China, Germany, and France.
Since 2006, his company has been arranging executive study tours to leading global companies and organizations for local industry leaders and ambitious startups from Eastern Europe, Germany, France, the UK and the United States. Since its inception Fastforward conducted 500+ company visits for its clients around the globe.
Based in Austin, TX he also runs MBA25, a leading MBA boutique event provider in Europe and the USA.
Kostiantyn Gridin – Head of CFC Big Ideas’ office in Dubai. Kostiantyn joined the CFC Big Ideas in 2003. He is a fluent speaker of Arabic language and has spent more than 20 years traveling and doing business in the GCC.
Since 2008, he has been leading the company’s business development advisory practice, helping companies from outside the GCC open doors and explore new business opportunities in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. He also assisted companies from GCC to find business opportunities abroad.
Kostiantyn has his own Youtube channel where he shares his marketing and business development advice for foreign companies entering the GCC markets. He also hosts regular webinars on the above topics.
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.
CFC Big Ideas is an international business consultancy headquartered in Dubai, UAE, and Kyiv, Ukraine. Since 2003, the company built its network in the GCC countries through organizing public events and country presentations as well as assisting its clients in in connecting with potential partners and clients.
CFC Big Ideas opened its office in Dubai, UAE, in 2013, since that time, the company has assisted businesses in the technology, real estate, equipment manufacturing, infrastructure, and security sectors in entering markets of the GCC countries. CFC Big Ideas’ Arabic-speaking team has extensive experience working in the GCC region and maintains a vast network of contacts among local decision-makers, government representatives, and business authorities.
CFC Big Ideas is helping companies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates expand their businesses abroad.
