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Steve Farber

Steve Farber

Extreme Leadership Expert

Bio

Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated - an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community.

His best-selling book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership was recently named one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed as "a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit." His newest book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership, has just been published by Doubleday/Random House.

A subject-matter expert in business leadership and a frequent guest on news-talk shows around the country, Steve is a senior-level leadership coach and consultant who speaks 90 to 100 times a year to a wide variety of public and private organizations in virtually every arena, from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, retail, and even the US government. [more...]

Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated - an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community.

His best-selling book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership was recently named one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed as "a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit." His newest book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership, has just been published by Doubleday/Random House.

A subject-matter expert in business leadership and a frequent guest on news-talk shows around the country, Steve is a senior-level leadership coach and consultant who speaks 90 to 100 times a year to a wide variety of public and private organizations in virtually every arena, from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, retail, and even the US government.

In 1989, after having run his own financial services company, Steve devoted his professional life to the field of leadership development and has been at it ever since. He was director of service programs at TMI, an international training consultancy, and then worked for 6 years as Vice President and Official Mouthpiece (that’s what it said on his business card) of The Tom Peters Company where he met several of his mentors including author/gurus Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes and Terry Pearce. In 2000, Steve established his own company, Extreme Leadership, Inc. where he is president and CEO. Steve is also the co-founding director of The Center for Social Profit Leadership (part of the Legacy XXI Institute), a non-profit organization formed to serve the leadership development needs of social entrepreneurs, and he sits on the Board of Directors of the world-renown program, Up With People, a global leadership program for students from 18 to 29 years old.

Coaching and inspiring Extreme Leadership at all organizational levels is Steve’s passion, and he does so with a style that is part strategist, part social commentator, part comedian, and all energy.

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GREATER THAN YOURSELF:
3 Steps to Attaining the New Gold Standard of Leadership

The truly great leaders in life and work become so by causing others to be greater than themselves. In this program—based on his new book, Greater Than Yourself — Steve shows that dedicating yourself to bringing others along so that they can achieve more than you is the ultimate way to boost talent, ramp productivity and create truly significant current and future leaders.

You will be challenged to aspire to the new gold standard in leadership with a powerful, three-step method:

  • Expand Yourself – you’ll discover tools to deepen and expand your personal capabilities - the raw material for true leadership;
  • Give Yourself – you’ll learn the art of 'philanthropizing' your leadership approach - the raw material for developing capacity in others;
  • Replicate Yourself – you’ll experience the power of expanding beyond your personal, one-to-one influence - the raw material for changing your organization for the better.


THE RADICAL LEAP:
Extreme Leadership at Work and Beyond

In this chaotic and extreme age, business leaders must demonstrate an unprecedented level of passion, determination, foresight, dedication, and fearlessness. In this wildly popular speech, Steve shows you how to use the LEAP framework - Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof to radically improve your organization and your life.

In this energetic and insightful program, you will discover how to:

  • Harness fear and use it to your advantage;
  • Use the power of the heart to achieve the extraordinary at work;
  • Inspire yourself and others to change the world you live in;
  • Earn your customers' and employees' love and loyalty;
  • Keep yourself and others passionately engaged in the work at hand — even in troubled or difficult times.


THE RADICAL EDGE:
The Extreme Leader's Guide to Uncommon Achievement

In this provocative keynote, Steve Farber redefines the conventional meaning of the word, "accountability," and takes you to an audacious level of leadership, by showing how a successful business, a rewarding personal life, and a world-changing legacy are not mutually exclusive ambitions.

Create remarkable legacies at work and at home by learning how to:

  • Find your personal focus as a leader - that zone in which you provide total value and significance to yourself and others — regardless of what’s happening in the company, the markets, or the economy;
  • Use the WUP technique to observe, process and interpret the world around you in order to bring new, world-changing ideas to your business;
  • Anticipate and respond to the unspoken needs of people and markets;
  • Hold yourself and others to an unprecedented level of personal accountability.


Radical Accountability:
Making the Leap from Individual Contributor to Extreme Leader

Whatever the challenge at your company - improving customer service, coping with change, inspiring transformation, improving corporate culture, recruiting and retaining great talent, building teamwork, fostering innovation - it all comes down to this: someone has to do something significant and enlist others to help. Someone, in other words, has to take accountability. Someone has to lead. And it doesn't have to be the boss. Leadership, ultimately, has nothing to do with the title on your business card or your position on the organizational chart. It's about who you are and what you do to change things for the better regardless of your "place" in the company. In Radical Accountability, Steve will show you four personal strategies for being the architect of transformation from any position or level in the company.


Steve Farber bookings and speaking engagements are facilitated by K&M Productions. For more information and booking Steve Farber, simply contact us.

What Clients are Saying

Working with Steve Farber helped us to conceptualize and deliver a fresh message on leadership that really energized the audience to think about everything that is familiar in a very different way. Steve worked with us in advance to understand our company’s unique challenges such that he could weave them into his keynote message. The message itself was one that was simple; yet presented in a way that was engaging, and most importantly, real versus theory-oriented. Steve’s message of Extreme Leadership was full of energy. His unique talent to tell compelling stories with concrete lessons and real-world application made the time particularly well spent.

–Eddie Bauer

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Working with Steve Farber helped us to conceptualize and deliver a fresh message on leadership that really energized the audience to think about everything that is familiar in a very different way. Steve worked with us in advance to understand our company’s unique challenges such that he could weave them into his keynote message. The message itself was one that was simple; yet presented in a way that was engaging, and most importantly, real versus theory-oriented. Steve’s message of Extreme Leadership was full of energy. His unique talent to tell compelling stories with concrete lessons and real-world application made the time particularly well spent.

–Eddie Bauer

Your message of Extreme Leadership was directly on-target and inspired the entire group. I have received a tremendous number of overwhelmingly positive responses from those that attended the meeting, and the e-mails are still coming in. Your mix of humor and emotion, together with the relevance of the topic to our situation at General Mills, kept the audience captivated. Thanks again for a great day and a compelling message. We will all remember the key message that you delivered and its importance to our everyday life - both at work and home: Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do.

–General Mills

Your message to our Leadership Team in NYC...was so eloquently delivered I was left speechless. It wasn't just a speech - but rather a mantra to live and work by. It was tangible and practical and could be put to application immediately. I was thoroughly impressed in how you made the whole session so personal to Bayer Diagnostics. I wanted to thank you for the opportunity to have that experience, to watch our Leadership Team get ignited with passion, and to propel Bayer Diagnostics to GREATNESS.

–Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics Division

Your presentation helped us reinforce the need for leadership at every level of the organization and conveyed how [our] initiative can foster the type of "extreme leadership" that will help us reach new levels of success. As a result, the team left that conference energized about [our] initiative, its priorities and the role they can play as active participants in enlisting others and driving this program forward.

–Kraft Foods

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