Steve 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). Tom Peters calls himself “an unabashed Farber fan,” so it’s no surprise that in June of 2001, Steve was the first to be honored with the designation of Tom Peters Company Fellow.  He’s not exactly sure what that means, but he thinks it’s a good thing.

Steve left TPC in November of 2000 and is now President of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated—an organization devoted to changing the world through the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community.  He is the author of the book The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, the audio series, Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the O.S.M. and is a contributor to the anthology, Leading Authorities on Business: Winning Strategies From the Greatest Minds in Business Today.

A subject-matter expert in business leadership, Steve is a senior-level coach and consultant who has conducted hundreds of client engagements with thousands of business people in a wide variety of organizations including Sun Microsystems, Wal-Mart, Federal Express, General Mills, Boeing, Discovery Networks, Intel, Kraft Foods, PHH Arval, Bridgestone-Firestone, Carson Wagonlit, YPO Detroit, Yellow Corporation, The American Medical Association, Wells Fargo, Walt Disney Imagineering, and many others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Or, consider this...

The Extreme Leadership Session:
Working Without a Net
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.