Steve Farber

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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“Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do.”

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.

Bestselling Author

Steve is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including:

• Love Is Just Damn Good Business (2020) – A powerful guide to leveraging love as a competitive advantage in leadership and business. Book Authority named it one of the Top Business Strategy Books of 2020.
• Greater Than Yourself (2009) – A Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller that explores how mentorship and selflessness can elevate leadership.
• The Radical Edge (2006) – Hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit,” this book helps leaders amplify their influence and impact.
• The Radical Leap (2004) – Considered a classic in the leadership field, Fast Company named it a Readers’ Choice Award winner, and it was recently recognized as one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

Hire Steve Farber

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.

Organizations Hire Steve Farber To:

• Deliver practical, inspiring, and entertaining keynote speeches.
• Embed the practices of Extreme Leadership in the DNA of the organization.
• Provide significant ongoing leadership learning and development.
• Create and amplify deep employee engagement.
• Work personally with executives or teams as an Advisor, Coach, Guide & Confidant.

To hire Steve Farber for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format and program goals. Steve Farber is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Steve Farber’s availability, discuss the event details and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Steve Farber for your program.

The cost to book Steve Farber depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Steve Farber’s speaking fee starts at $23,000, while virtual programs typically range from $7,500 to $15,000. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Steve Farber booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing and the best format for your event.

Love is Just Damn Good Business

A New Strategic Advantage for Today’s Hyper-Competitive World

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.

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 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:

• 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 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.

Greater Than Yourself

The New Gold Standard for Mentoring and Talent Development

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:

• 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, 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:

• Increase their 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.

Radical Accountability

A Guide to Uncommon Achievement in Every Aspect of Life

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:

• Determine and clarify your focus as a leader.
• Use a simple technique to create and bring innovative ideas to your business.
• Anticipate and respond to the unspoken needs of people and markets.
• Hold yourself and others to an unprecedented level of personal accountability.

The Extreme Leadership Jam Session

On-The-Spot Group Coaching

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.

Here’s how it works:

1. Steve 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 groups, has a quick discussion according to Steve’s guidelines, and then generates One Important Question about leadership as it relates to their current needs.
3. Next, Steve fields the questions (as many as possible given the amount of available time and size of the group), and, when appropriate, facilitates a discussion with the entire audience.
4. And away we go! Learning about Extreme Leadership in the context that people need right now.