Harvard Business School Leadership and Strategy Coach
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Executive Leadership and Strategy Coach at Harvard Business School
- Principal at Fitch Associates
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- Senior Manager, Organizational and Leadership Development at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Consultant to Marketing and Sales at Apple
- Management Development at Apple
- Education
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- University of Puget Sound
- University of Oregon
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Tobey Fitch’s Summary
Fitch Associates is a small band of experienced, opinionated, helpful people.
Clients come to us wanting to:
• Get their leadership and organization aligned on strategy and plans.
• Differentiate and win new customers or audiences.
• Communicate their direction and value to investors, customers, and partners
• Build capacity across the organization.
We help them to build the skills and capacity to create sustainable organizational progress.
We have a good time doing it, and our clients get honest value and a great partnership that strenghtens their organization.
Our work includes facilitating strategy development, implementation guidance, market and customer insight, leadership team effectiveness, external and internal message development, investor pitch work, message and presention skill coaching, leadership and management training. We've been doing this since at least 1995.
Clients have included: Juniper Networks, T-Mobile, Intuit, Kendall-Jackson, Gap inc., Hyperion, Nortel, Robert Mondavi, the Human Rights Campaign, Apple, StubHub, the University of Washington, the Recording Industry Association of America, and a number of smaller and start-up clients.
Tobey Fitch’s Specialties:
• Strategy and plan development in partnership with senior teams, supportive yet pushy facilitation.
• Brand and Value Proposition development.
• Communication and messaging of strategy and direction internally and externally.
• Product and service development using customer insight. Capacity building. Leadership development, Presentation Skill development.
Tobey Fitch’s Experience
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Executive Leadership and Strategy Coach
Harvard Business School
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Executive Coach through the ExEL program, a collaborative program bringing resources from the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Currently working with the leadership team of Portland Public Schools on long term change in the school system. -
Principal
Fitch Associates
(Public Company; Design industry)
June 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
Tobey leads the small and merry band at Fitch Associates - a small gang of consultants in Strategy, Messsaging, and Leadership Development.
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Senior Manager, Organizational and Leadership Development
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1991 — April 1996 (4 years 11 months)
Led Organizational and Leadership Development team, designed and implemented customized leadership development programs globally.
Managed consulting team working with business leaders across the company, lead consultant on Power PC transition, India start-up operation, led team effectiveness & re-engineering work for U.S. sales & marketing, Japan, Europe, and product management.
Consultant and facilitator for executive team, ran strategy and planning sessions for John Sculley and team, executive transition team. -
Consultant to Marketing and Sales
Apple
(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
1988 — 1996 (8 years)
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Management Development
Apple
(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
1988 — 1996 (8 years)
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Organizational & Leadership Development
Apple
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
1988 — 1996 (8 years)
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Manager, Organizational Development
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; aapl; Computer Software industry)
July 1988 — June 1991 (3 years)
Led the management effectiveness initiative including customized training for Apple U.S.A., adopted across the company - an intensive workshop for all managers.
Partnered with executives on strategy and planning work, succession planning, process re-engineering, and a ton of other stuff.
Intensive work on Sales & Marketing integration, cross channel coordination.
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Senior Manager of Sales and Marketing Training
Sprint
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 1983 — June 1988 (4 years 11 months)
National Account Executive, Sales Trainer, Sales Training Manager, Senior Manager of Sales Training. Trained, Designed Training, Re-engineered hiring and training processes, worked for CMO Ed Carter, Led organizational alignment work, internal communications work.
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Co-Founder
Progressive Investments
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
January 1982 — November 1983 (1 year 11 months)
Worked with now industry leader Carsten Henningsen to start up this pioneering Socially Responsible Investment Company. Carsten is a visionary, a brilliant guy.
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Production and Marketing
Media One / Albatross Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)
March 1982 — October 1983 (1 year 8 months)
Promoted and Produced major events, concerts, etc. in Washington and Oregon for the Northwest's equivalent of Bill Graham Presents.
Tobey Fitch’s Education
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University of Puget Sound
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University of Oregon
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Tobey Fitch’s Groups:
Director, the Waitte Foundation
Board Member, Portland State Masters of International Management Program
Board Member, Open Technology Business Center, Beaverton, Or.
Board Member, Oregon Small Businesses for Responsible Leadership
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