Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated -- an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community -- and is the co-founding director of The Center for Social Profit Leadership. His book, The Radical Leap 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. His new book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed by best-selling author, Jason Jennings, as "the best book you'll read this year."

   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 clients 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.

   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.

   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.

Programs:

1) 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.

2) Radical Accountability:

Making the LEAP From Individual Contributor to Extreme Leader

   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.