Extreme Leadership
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 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, The CEO Refresher. 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.” 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 OS!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 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.
Available Programs:
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. "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
The Radical Edge: The Extreme Leader's Guide to Uncommon Achievement - In this provocative keynote, Steve Farber re-defines the conventional meaning of the term 'personal accountability' and takes the practice of Extreme Leadership to an even higher level of challenge and self-discovery. Based on Steve's inspiring, daring, and unforgettable book, The Radical Edge program is an experience that will show you how to stoke the fires of your business, amplify personal joy and meaning, and change the world for the better - all at the same time.
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. 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 program, 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.
Leading Radical Service: The Extreme Leader's Guide to Blowing Your Customer's Minds - 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 the qualities that you, as an Extreme Leader, must demonstrate to create customer-obsessed business people at every level of your organization. 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 Extreme Leadership Session - 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 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 the way it works: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Farber fields the questions (as many as possible giving the amount of available time and the size of the group). 4. And away we go! Learning about the Extreme Leadership principles that people need right now.
ROI/Tangible Program Benefits:
- Find the ability to influence, the power to transform and the courage to change the world of your company, your customers and your industry
- Learn how to use the LEAP framework -- Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof -- to do just that and radically improve your organization and your life
- Discover how to stoke the fires of your business, amplify personal joy and meaning, and change the world for the better
- Learn personal strategies for being the architect of transformation from any position or level in the company
Testimonials/Client List:
"Your message to our Leadership Team in NYC on 2/9/06 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. Your message about love, energy, audacity and proof hit home with every one of the folks in that room. 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."-President, Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics Division
"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.'"-VP, Packaging Development, General Mills
"Your presentation had a profound impact on many people, including me, and will play a role in the thinking and spirit necessary to continue our success."-President, Erie Insurance Group
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