Feb 02 - 04 2025
One of Inc.’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts and Huffington Post’s #1 Business Speaker, Steve Farber is a leadership pioneer, strategist, bestselling author, and keynote speaker on Extreme Leadership.
Steve Farber is a leadership pioneer, bestselling author, and one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world. Named the #1 Business Speaker to See by Huffington Post and ranked among Inc.’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Steve has spent decades transforming how organizations approach leadership, culture, and business success. He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Steve Farber is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Steve Farber’s fees.
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For more than 30 years, Steve Farber has devoted his career to redefining leadership. His Radical LEAP framework (Love, Energy, Audacity, Proof) has become a cornerstone of leadership excellence, helping organizations cultivate cultures where every individual, regardless of their role, feels empowered to lead.
In 1989, after running his own financial services company, Steve committed his professional life to leadership development. Since then he has worked as Director of Service Programs at TMI, an international training consultancy, Vice President and Official Mouthpiece of The Tom Peters Company, and in 2000 he founded Extreme Leadership, Inc., and later The Extreme Leadership Institute, to amplify his mission of embedding love, purpose, and energy into the fabric of organizations worldwide. 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, and all energy.
Steve is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including:
Listed as one of Inc.’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts and Huffington Post’s #1 Business Speaker, Steve’s keynote speeches and workshops are practical and transformational. His engaging style, authentic approach, and emphasis on real-world application have inspired teams at organizations like Johns Hopkins, Intel, Cisco, Hyatt, and hundreds more large and small across every industry there is.
Whether coaching executives or rallying entire organizations, Steve’s mission is clear: to help people “do what they love in the service of people who love what they do.” He 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. If you’re looking to ignite passion, drive, and purpose within your team, Steve Farber is the speaker who will make it happen.
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The first keynote to directly address love as a hard-core business principle that generates measurable results.
Over the last 10 years alone, the business world has spent close to a trillion dollars on leadership development; yet, 73% of people are still disengaged in their work. 10 years ago, that number was 70%.
Something is dreadfully wrong.
Steve Farber has learned that the solution is to do something more radical, something extreme:
Operationalize love as a core business practice.
To be clear, this isn’t about group hugs in the elevator. This isn’t about love as a sentiment; it’s
about love as a discipline and as a practice.
When love is part of an organization’s framework and operationalized in its culture, employees and customers feel genuinely valued. Employees who are passionate about the work that they do are more loyal, innovative, creative, and inspired, and that translates to great customer experience. They don’t serve others out of obligation, but because of a genuine desire to improve people’s lives. And when customers reciprocate by loving your products, your services, and your people, that’s when you get the loyalty (and repeat purchases) of raving fans. It’s a refreshingly human way of doing business.
Drawing on his work with a wide variety of companies from the Fortune 100 to smaller, entrepreneurial ventures, Steve shows you proven strategies, shares inspiring case studies, and teaches practical steps on how to build a corporate culture that operationalizes love as a significant competitive advantage.
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 based on The Radical Leap, Steve Farber shows you how to use the LEAP framework – Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof – to radically improve your organization and your personal life. In this energetic and insightful program, you will discover how to:
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 bad news.
There are two surefire 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, Steve 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.
The greatest leaders became great by causing the people around them to be even greater than they are. In this program based on his Wall Street Journal bestseller, Greater Than Yourself, Steve shows that dedicating yourself to uplifting others so 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:
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, or to make the leap necessary for creating innovative products or services. In this interactive keynote session, Steve teaches a new perspective on what it means to try, fail, learn from mistakes, and then succeed in the end. Participants will:
In this provocative keynote, Steve Farber redefines the conventional meaning of the word,
“accountability,” and takes you to a new, audacious level of leadership by showing how a successful business, a rewarding personal life, and a world-changing legacy are not mutually exclusive ambitions.
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.
Create remarkable legacies both at work and at home by learning how to:
For over 25 years, Steve Farber’s been in the business trenches with thousands of leaders in all
kinds of industries. Much of his experience has revolved around having open, honest, and powerful conversations about the nature of leadership with his clients and then helping them apply new ideas to their specific challenges.
The Extreme Leadership Jam Session is a departure from the “speaker” norm. The audience will determine the agenda—right on the spot—according to the participant’s most pressing
leadership needs and questions. This allows Steve to be a coach-in-residence and offer very specific advice and counsel in the moment.
“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
“Steve’s message of Extreme Leadership was directly on-target and inspired the entire group. His mix of humor and emotion, together with the relevance of the topic to our situation at General Mills, kept the audience captivated. Thanks for a great day and a compelling message. We will all remember the key message that he 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
“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
“You help us remember why we are here and the difference we each can make. Thank you for not only bringing your energy and passion to the session but also for working with us ahead of time to understand what was really critical for this group. You listened on all fronts, and you delivered as you always do.” – Agilent Technologies
