Steve Farber

Steve Farber's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
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 book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership is a recipient of Fast Company magazine's Readers' Choice Award and was named one of the ten best business books of 2004 by the on-line resource, CEO Refresher. He is a contributor to the anthology, Leading Authorities on Business: Winning Strategies From the Greatest Minds in Business Today, and is the author of the audio series, Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the O.S.M.

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 has conducted hundreds of engagements with thousands of business people in a wide variety of organizations including Sun Microsystems, The Discovery Channel, Clorox, Abbott Laboratories, Eddie Bauer, Intel, Kraft Foods, Verizon, The American Medical Association, The General Services Administration, The Council for Excellence in Government, Wells Fargo, Walt Disney Imagineering, and many others.

More About Steve Farber . . .
Steve joined the Tom Peters Company in 1994 as their first full-time staff consultant. He quickly became their most requested consultant and speaker and was given the title of "Vice President and Official Mouthpiece" (that's what it said on his business card). Tom Peters calls himself "an unabashed Farber fan," so it's no surprise that in June of 2001-a year after he'd left the firm-Steve was honored with the designation of Tom Peters Company Fellow.

• The Radical LEAP: Extreme Leadership at Work and Beyond
  

  Audience: Primarily for Officer, Senior Executive and Manager level. In this chaotic and extreme age, business leaders must demonstrate an unprecedented level of passion, determination, foresight, dedication and fearlessness. People won't follow empty rhetoric, but they will respond to significant, meaningful and dramatic action. As an Extreme Leader, you need the ability to influence, the power to transform and the courage to change the world of your company, your customers and your industry. In The Radical Leap, Steve shows you how to use the LEAP framework-Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof-to do just that-and radically improve your organization and your life.

• Radical Accountability: Making the LEAP From Individual Contributor to Extreme Leader
  

  Audience: For Individual Contributors or Organization-Wide participation. 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 personal strategies for being the architect of transformation from any position or level in the company.

• Leading Radical Service: The Extreme Leader's Guide to Blowing Your Customer's Minds
  

  Audience: For Officer, Senior Executive, Manager and/or Individual Contributor level. We all know that customer satisfaction is no longer enough. But creating a consistently mind-blowing WOW! Experience for your customers demands imagination, empathy and creativity from every employee in your company. What are you doing about it? Steve offers four qualities that you, as an Extreme Leader, must demonstrate to create customer-obsessed business people at every level of your organization: Passion, Obsession, Creation and Exhilaration. Drawing on provocative business cases, research and personal experience, Steve will take you beyond the conventional customer service wisdom and into the realm of customer love.

• The Vision Paradox: The Extreme Leader's Guide to Seeing in the Dark
  

  Audience: Primarily for Officer, Senior Executive and Manager level. Psychiatrist and author, Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, said, "A visionary is the one who learns to see in the dark, not the one who describes it." Just when a business vision is the hardest to create, that's when people need it most. How do you build and communicate a picture of tomorrow when you're trying to make it through the chaos and commitments of today? Drawing on several cases and proven practices, Steve will help you to create and articulate a vision of your piece of the organization. You'll learn practical strategies to build commitment and inspire action in yourself and in others.

• The Extreme Leadership Session: Working Without a Net
  

  Here's the idea: Steve's been in the trenches. He has 15 years of experience working with thousands of business leaders in all kinds of industries. And most 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 one helluva keynote speech. And he loves to do it. But the Extreme Leadership Session is a departure from the keynote-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 there. Right on the spot. And the program will develop according to the group's most pressing leadership needs and questions. THIS WOULD SCARE THE LIVING HELL OUT OF MOST "PROFESSIONAL SPEAKERS." Take away their script, and you take away their net. And most 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 the way 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 "clumps" (that's a technical term), 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 away we go! Learning about the leadership principles that people need right now.

"Steve Farber connects . . . his wealth of experience from his background in the financial and consulting worlds, together with his ability to touch people where they live, makes him a much sought-after speaker and counselor. He has a rare ability to inspire people to think about what's really important to them and how to turn that into reality for their lives."

--Carl English, President, Consumers Energy, Gas SBU

"You gave us concepts to think about as we lead our teams to success! Since returning to Atlanta I have been focused on providing Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof to improve our team."

--Regional VP, First Home Mortgage