Authors: Constantine "Dino" Kiritsis & Christos Ragkavas.
Constantine (Dino) is one of the most versatile professionals in business operating as an entrepreneur & consultant in the Business, HR, training & development industry. He is considered a world-class inspirational trainer / presenter having trained and led diverse events for numerous corporations and associations. He has delivered over 12,000 hours of professional training, hosting & presentations in the last 20 years in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East mainly to corporate clients. He is founder of StudySmart.gr®, a company offering consulting, professional qualifications training seminars, workshops & information on education, educational systems and certifications. He has extensive experience in business start - ups, education and professional training & development by setting up Intercollege Globaltraining in the late 1990’s (being responsible for the incorporation of ACCA & other professional qualifications in Greece and serving as a Partner & Executive Director for close to a decade), before setting up and leading one of the first academies for PwC in Greece and supporting a number of PwC Academies towards the creation of centers of excellence (COE) in the CEE and the Middle East. In essence he led the quality approvals by major associations successfully receiving the highest standards on each occasion, while close to 20 of his students have been regional or global prize winners from Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Dubai, Qatar demonstrating the applicability of training techniques at international level by using his flow charting methodology. He has been promoting professional qualifications and especially CIMA & ACCA throughout the world assisting with talks, presentations at over 50 Universities globally and writings. His recent research paper “From Degreefication to Certification” makes the case of graduates moving towards getting certified as a necessary requirement for their career paths, ACCA being the main case study. He was chosen among thousands of speakers globally to present in Atlanta and the 2017 Association for talent development conference (ATD), the largest training & development conference in the world. He is also a consultant and International Curriculum Development expert for PwC’s Academy in Serbia. Dino has also done work with PwC’s Global Steering Committee for Private Company Services and has developed the curriculum, methodology and mapping procedure for PwC’s very successful Mini MBA programme being offered in the CEE region & the Middle East in 10 countries. As a mentor on select business start-ups he has donated his services to close to 10 companies through charity / entrepreneurship organizations (Founders institute, I4U, Young Leaders) as well as successful start-ups (Member of the Board of Mye-tutor & School of the Future International Academy - SoFIA). He is the author of an educational guide offered in Greece from 2004 to 2012 (8th edition) and has been an active speaker on entrepreneurship, innovation, educational, professional training and business development issues in over 100 events in the past decade. His knowledge areas span from Business Mapping, business analysis, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Corporate level training to developing programmes, career management and education, Professional qualifications (PQs) and teaching topics such as Corporate Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, Marketing and HR (for specialist qualifications (ACCA, CIA, CIMA, SHRM) and Universities (for the University of Surrey (UK), University of Strathclyde (UK), Henley Management School (UK), University of Nicosia (CY) and PwC Academies in Europe and the Middle East. Constantine has also been involved in corporate accounts training for well – known multinational firms.