Keynote Speaker: Steve Farber

Steve Farber

Steve Farber
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Biography

Steve Farber is President of Extreme Leadership, Inc—an organization devoted to changing the world through the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. He has educated and inspired thousands of people throughout the world in the areas of leadership, service quality, reinvention, and teamwork.

Farber 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). Steve left TPC in November of 2000 to establish Extreme Leadership, Inc, and in June of 2001 his former employer honored him with the designation of Tom Peters Company Fellow. He’s not exactly sure what that means, but he thinks it’s a good thing.

A subject matter expert in business leadership, Steve is a senior-level leadership consultant who has conducted hundreds of client engagements with thousands of business people in a wide variety of industries. Steve’s presentations are packed with practical, from-the-trenches strategies, examples and ideas that result in a powerful and meaningful message.

In response to today’s fad-oriented business world, Farber has centered his career around helping professionals understand what to do when popular, attractive-sounding terms like empowerment, reengineering, leadership, and vision, for example, smack up against the hard wall of reality. “We are seeing a significant gap between ideas and behaviors. Your constituents need to understand what’s in it for them to practice these concepts,” Steve says. “Most often, people (and I do put managers in that category) don’t change for the organization: they change for themselves.” Coaching and inspiring that change at all levels is Steve’s passion, and he does so with style that is part strategist, part social commentator, part comedian, and all energy.

Steve has worked with Agilent Technologies, the American Medical Association (AMA), Charles Schwab Company, Clorox, Consumers Energy, Ford Motor Company, Ikon Office Solutions, Intel, KLA-Tenor, Lawrence Livermore Labs, Lockheed Martin, The Money Store, Montgomery Asset Management, Oral-B Laboratories, The Panama Canal Commission, Pier One, the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals (SOCAP), the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Sun Microsystems, 3M, and Walt Disney Imagineering among many others.

Before his tenure at the Tom Peters Company, Steve was with TMI North America where he served as a consultant, Program Leader, and the Director of Service Programs. He developed his management and marketing skills, as well as his love for consulting and speaking, as President of Independence Financial Group, Inc., a financial brokerage firm. Steve is the author of the audio series, Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the OS!M. He is a contributor to the business anthology, Leading Authorities on Business: Winning Strategies From the Greatest Minds in Business Today, and has recently released his book entitled, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership,.

Publications

The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World

Titles

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 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.

THE RADICAL EDGE:
The Extreme Leader’s Guide to Uncommon Achievement
Audience: For all levels
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.

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 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.