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A POWERFUL MESSAGE THAT IS ARTFULLY DELIVERED

Steve Farber has shaken up and re-defined what it means
to be a leader of substance, significance and success.

AN INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER WITH A MESSAGE THAT TRANSCENDS THE MOUNTAINTOP

We’ve all had those mountaintop experiences. You know, those times when something or someone got us all fired up during a conference or special event. But then … we came down from the mountain and went back to work, right?

True inspiration can happen on a mountaintop, but it sustains us in the valleys – and in the factories, the restaurants, the boardrooms, the cubicles, the athletic fields, or anywhere else we might work or go about life.
Leadership expert Steve Farber is known as one of the world’s top inspirational speakers because his message doesn’t fade away on your drive home from the event. It penetrates deep within you and transforms the way you think and lead. Why? Steve speaks from and to the most inspirational place of all – the heart. But he also brings years of experience, proven frameworks for success, and insights you can apply every day to live and lead with passion and purpose.
PUT THE EXTRA IN EXTRAORDINARY
As an author, consultant, and inspirational speaker, Steve has been motivating audiences around the world for years to live as Extreme Leaders – and he can inspire you and your team, too.
Steve never settles for an ordinary keynote presentation. He engages audience members with a wit and wisdom that’s been honed from years of experience working with corporate clients and by delivering hundreds of presentations to audiences big and small. His core message is insightful and applicable to any business in any industry, and he delivers it in a way that challenges and inspires everyone in the room to commit to making a real difference through their work.
Steve encourages audience members to rethink leadership, and his presentations create lively discussions about Extreme Leadership principles. The interactive talks are tailored to your business, which helps everyone grasp the insights and adopt the dynamic principles that will increase their productivity, contribute to a positive culture, and drive your organization forward to a better future.
STEVE FARBER says
“Leadership is a scary thing. There are many people who want to be matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with 2,000 pounds of bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar”
GET INSPIRED THROUGH THESE MESSAGES
Join Steve as he...
  • Defines a new leadership model that teaches you to operate fearlessly, take risks, learn from mistakes, and make the most of ongoing feedback.
  • Encourages your passion and excitement for life by helping you start a journey of self-discovery, one that challenges you to define true success and learn how to transform the world into a better place one day at a time.
  • Explains how to become a leader who goes above and beyond standard expectations by helping colleagues, friends, employees, and teammates become more confident in their abilities to accomplish personal and professional goals.
Steve takes the time to learn about your organization, its strategies, its goals, and the needs of its employees. Then he delivers a customized inspirational keynote on leadership that your team can identify with, embrace, and live.

STEVE FARBER’S LEADERSHIP TOPICS

NOTE: STEVE TAILORS ALL TOPICS TO THE NEEDS OF EACH CLIENT
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. 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…

  • 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
(Ideal audience: current, next generation, and high potential managers and leaders at all organizational levels)
GREATER THAN YOURSELF
THE NEW GOLD STANDARD FOR MENTORING AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT

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

At first this [approach] may seem counterintuitive, but I encourage you to set aside your pre-conceived notions of success and accomplishment and throw yourself whole-heartedly into the Greater Than Yourself endeavor.”

Patrick Lencioni, bestselling author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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, leadership speaker, Steve Farber, will show you four personal strategies for being the architect of transformation from any position or level in the company.

  • Cultivate Love
  • Generate Energy
  • Inspire Audacity
  • Provide Proof

(Ideal audience: front-line employees or mixed level groups)

WORKING WITHOUT A NET
THE EXTREME LEADERSHIP JAM SESSION

Based on the book 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…

Here’s the idea: Steve’s been in the trenches. He has over 20 years of experience working with thousands of business leaders in all kinds of industries. And much of that experience has revolved around having open, honest and powerful conversations about the nature of leadership with his clients and then helping them to apply new ideas to their specific challenges. To put it simply: there is no script when you’re dealing with your client’s current business realities.

Now, the fact is that Steve delivers a powerful and entertaining keynote speech. And he loves to do it. But the Extreme Leadership Jam Session is a departure from the leadership speaker norm, because there is no script. With the exception of a couple of principles to set the stage, there is no specific list of points to be covered. The audience will determine the course of the program. Right on the spot. And the program will develop according to the group’s most pressing leadership needs and questions.

THIS WOULD SCARE THE PANTS OFF OF MANY “PROFESSIONAL SPEAKERS.” Take away their script, and you take away their net. And many speakers either don’t like that, or, frankly, have nothing to say beyond the scripted word. Farber loves it, and so will you…if you have the nerve to give it a try.

Here’s how it works:
  • Farber sets the stage and proposes a few challenging ideas to the group. He briefly defines Extreme Leadership and talks about the importance of open dialogue.
  • The audience — which could be as small as 10 people or as large as several thousand — forms into small groups or clusters, has a quick discussion according to Farber’s guidelines and then generates One Important Question about leadership as it relates to their current work/life situation.
  • Farber fields the questions (as many as possible giving the amount of available time and the size of the group), and, when appropriate, facilitates a discussion with the entire audience.
  • And away we go! Learning about the Extreme Leadership principles that people need right now.
(Ideal audience: front-line employees or mixed level groups)

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STEVE FARBER, LEADERSHIP SPEAKER: VIDEO CLIPS & TESTIMONIALS
ENJOY THESE LIVE VIDEO CLIPS AND SOME WORDS OF PRAISE FROM A FEW OF STEVE'S MANY CLIENTS.
This is Not Empowerment
Love Is Good Business
The OS!M
Trust First
Greater Than Yourself
Case Study: An Extreme Leadership Culture
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Your message to our Leadership Team was so eloquently delivered I was left speechless. It wasn't just a speech -- one way and directional -- but rather a mantra to live and work by... It was tangible and practical and could be put to application immediately. In fact, we did so throughout the next day by creating action plans to implement that energy to create change in our culture. It was one of the best, if not the best, I have ever heard.
BAYER
PSAV-Presentation-Services
Steve's presentation exceeded my expectations. Our group consisted of leaders who have seen many presenters over the years because they have handled the technology during these events. Because of this, we can be quite cynical and I always hold my breath when we bring in a presenter. Steve was great! He researched the situation well and applied many of his lessons to our specific circumstance and situation. It was a pleasure to have him address our first new PSAV National Leadership Meeting.
PSAV PRESENTATION SERVICES
General-Mills
Your message of Extreme Leadership was directly on-target and inspired the entire group. 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
Microsoft
Thank you for sharing your expertise with our audience and contributing to the huge success of our conference. Your presentation on Extreme Leadership Principles to Change the World inspired our audience.
MICROSOFT
Orange-County-Dept-of-Education
It is very evident form the participants’ comments that your message is timely and vital, and proves that it crossed the boundaries from business to the educational field. What you shared was not only from experience, but spoken from the heart. The credibility you bring to your presentations allows those in the field to build their craftsmanship and efficacy.
ORANGE COUNTY DEPT OF EDUCATION
The-American-Orthopaedic-Association
Your presentation was "bang on," as the English say--extremely effective--and will be forever remembered by the members who were there. I have subsequently heard from several members who read your book on the way home and now aspire to use the LEAP process in their daily professional lives.
THE AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION

ABOUT STEVE FARBER

LEADERSHIP EXPERT & SPEAKER
Steve Farber, Leadership Speaker, Author and Consultant
“Do What You Love in the Service of People Who Love What You Do”
– Steve Farber

Listed as one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Steve 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.

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.

Organizations hire Steve to:

  • Deliver practical, inspiring and entertaining keynote speeches
  • Embed the practices of Extreme Leadership in the organization’s DNA
  • Provide significant on-going leadership learning and development
  • Create and amplify deep employee engagement

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.