Harold Fethe draws on a wide range of experience for his current ventures as a consultant, writer, designer and musician. At ALZA Corporation — an S&P 500 company that was merged into healthcare giant Johnson and Johnson — Harold served as Senior Vice President, responsible for ALZA’s human resources, facilities, real estate, security, and other corporate functions. He invented the powerful and intuitive graphical user interface for the Visual 360® performance appraisal system, now available from SumTotal Systems, and managed the completion and occupancy of ALZA Plaza — three towers in Silicon Valley totaling nearly a half-million square feet. He now serves as principal in his own consulting venture, writes for a wide range of publications and projects, and performs as a jazz and rock guitarist.
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Harold's article describing a recruiting strategy for the current economy was published recently in the Management Research arm of Workforce journal.
Harold is consulting for Cookie Marenco, principal and founder of Blue Coast Records and OTR Recording Studios. Cookie has engineered or produced five Grammy-nominated records, several Gold records and an Academy Award-winning documentary. She is an international thought leader in the emerging field of computer audiophile recording. To hear what that means, listen to any of the free samples at Blue Coast. You don’t need better equipment to hear a dramatic improvement, compared to the sound of MP3 or even CD-audio recordings.
The “Cookie Collaboration” with Cookie Marenco has produced a high-definition, re-mastered version of Harold’s Out of Nowhere CD, with renowned jazz violinist Johnny Frigo, pianist Joe Vito, and bassist Jim Cox. You can hear it for free at haroldfethe.downloadsnow.net, or you can download individual tracks or the whole album.
The "class picture" for Speaking to the Big Dogs 2.0, including Powerspeaking founder Rick Gilbert and trainer Melissa Schwartz.
Silicon Valley executives gathered to update Powerspeaking's hit video, Speaking to the Big Dogs. Harold Fethe joined Net Apps CEO Dan Warmenhoven, Propel CEO / founder Steve Kirsch, Vanguard Ventures Managing Director Dan Eilers, Edwards LifeSciences CFO Corinne Lyle, and Brigadier General Robert Drolet in a lively video shoot. Powerspeaking founder Rick Gilbert said, "We need the trained eye of an anthropologist. Margaret Mead is long gone, so we have Harold Fethe. Your insights have just been stellar..."
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Harold's article describing a 