Steve Farber

Cultivate Extreme Leadership in your organization with one of Inc's global Top 50 Leadership and Management experts.

Expert on

  • Best-Selling Author
  • Business
  • Empowerment
  • Management
  • Leadership
  • Vision/Purpose

Fee Range

$30,000–$40,000

Travels from

CA, US

Biography

Huffington Post has named Steve Farber as the #1 Business Speaker to See. Listed as one of Inc.’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Farber is a Leadership Pioneer, Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author on Extreme Leadership.

His expertise is in creating organizational cultures where leadership is not just an opportunity and obligation for those in authority, but for everyone at all levels.

Former Vice President of the Tom Peters Company, Steve is the President of Extreme Leadership, Inc, and the founder of The Extreme Leadership Institute, organizations devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders around the world. His accessible, deeply inspirational, and eminently practical Radical LEAP framework is widely used across the business, non-profit and education spectrum. Farber has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their businesses, lives, and the world around them.

Steve is the author of the new book Love is Just Damn Good Business. His third book, Greater Than Yourself, was a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller. His second book, The Radical Edge, was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” And his first book, The Radical Leap, is already considered a classic in the leadership field. It received Fast Company Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award and was recently named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His column, The Extreme Leadership Chronicles, runs frequently on Inc.com.

ORGANIZATIONS HIRE STEVE TO: 

Deliver practical, inspiring and entertaining keynote speeches 

Embed the practices of Extreme Leadership in the DNA of the organization 

Provide significant on-going leadership learning and development 

Create and amplify deep employee engagement 

Work personally with executives or teams as an Advisor, Coach, Guide & Confidant

 Steve has worked with Johns Hopkins, Cisco, Intel, TriNet, Hyatt and hundreds of other organizations large and small. He has spoken to or worked with virtually every industry there is–from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, public education, retail, and government. 

Speaker Videos

EXTREME LEADERSHIP: YOUR RADICAL LEAP FORWARD AT WORK AND BEYOND

Based on the book named as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time

(Ideal audience: current, next generation, and high potential managers and leaders at all organizational levels)

Based on The Radical Leap, which was named as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

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, leadership speaker, Steve Farber, 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…

  • Inspire yourself and others to achieve extraordinary results 
  • Earn your customers’ and employees’ love and loyalty 
  • Engage yourself and others-even in troubled or transitional times

EXTREME LEADERSHIP FROM THE C-SUITE: CREATING A CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP AT EVERY LEVEL

Ideal Audience: C-Suite officers and high-level executives 

C-Suite executives have a unique leadership challenge: they live under a microscope; people watch everything they do. So much so that their decisions, actions, behaviors, and communications have a direct effect on the entire culture of the organization. That’s the good news. And, of course, it can also be the bad news. 

There are two sure-fire ways to change an organization’s culture. One, do nothing. And, two, do anything. That’s the very nature of a culture – it’s always evolving. For that reason, developing a good culture is like developing a good relationship-it requires constant attention and never-ending awareness from the C-Suite on down. 

In Extreme Leadership From the C-Suite, Farber draws on his proven methodology and multi-industry experience to help officers and executives inspire and energize the entire enterprise. The result? A corporate culture that attracts and retains the best talent, creates innovative products and services, and yields radical results. 

GREATER THAN YOURSELF: THE NEW GOLD STANDARD FOR MENTORING AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT

(Ideal audience: current, next generation, and high potential managers and leaders at all organizational levels)

The truly great leaders in life and work become so by causing others to be greater than themselves. In this program-based on his Wall Street Journal bestseller, Greater Than Yourself-Steve Farber 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.

 

RADICAL ACCOUNTABILITY: MAKE 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.