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Steve Farber      

Best-Selling Author the Radical Leap, Consultant & Leadership Expert

Steve Farber has been named by Huffington Post 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, Farber 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.

Farber 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.

Farber 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.

Speech Topics


Extreme Leadership: Your Radical LEAP Forward at Work and Beyond

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, 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

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.

Love Is Just Damn Good Business: A New Strategic Advantage for Today’s Hyper-Competitive World

From the bestselling author of "The Radical Leap", "The Radical Edge", and "Greater Than Yourself" comes the first keynote to directly address love as a hard-core business principle that generates measurable results.

Greater Than Yourself: The New Gold Standard for Mentoring and Talent Development

The greatest leaders become so by causing others to be greater than themselves. In this program— based on his Wall Street Journal bestseller, Greater Than Yourself—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 – Deepen and expand your personal capabilities
  • Give Yourself – Share your knowledge, network, and experience to help others grow
  • Replicate Yourself – Create a culture of coaching and mentorship

The Personal Side of Innovation: Managing Risk from the Inside Out

Every business book will tell you that it’s important to take risks and learn from your mistakes. But intellectual understanding of that truth usually isn’t enough to compel people to act, to try, to make the leap necessary for creating innovative products or services. In this interactive keynote session, Farber teaches a new perspective on what it means to try, fail, learn from mistakes, and then succeed in the end.

Participants will:

  • Increase their personal capacity for risk
  • View their challenges as positive adventures vs frightening obstacles
  • Become more innovative in their approach to work
  • Learn from mistakes and apply what they’ve learned
  • Try new things more readily and enthusiastically

News


TriNet Teams with Steve Farber to Provide Entrepreneurs with Leadership Development Training and Tools
TriNet, a trusted provider of on-demand HR services to small businesses and entrepreneurs, today announced it has partnered with best-selling author Steve Farber for the Extreme Leadership Series, which is designed to provide the company’s client roster of entrepreneurs and small business owners with the resources, tools and training to help them build strong, successful, and lasting businesses.

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