Steve Farber

Steve Farber has been named by Huffington Post as the #1 Business Speaker to See. Listed as one of Inc.’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Farber is a leadership pioneer, strategist, keynote speaker and bestselling author on Extreme Leadership.

His expertise is in creating organizational cultures where leadership is not just an opportunity and obligation for those in authority, but for everyone at all levels.

Former Vice President of the Tom Peters Company, Farber is the President of Extreme Leadership, Inc, and the founder of The Extreme Leadership Institute, organizations devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders around the world. His accessible, deeply inspirational, and eminently practical Radical LEAP framework is widely used across the business, non-profit and education spectrum. Farber 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.

Farber is the author of several books including: "Love is Just Damn Good Business"; "Greater Than Yourself," a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller; "The Radical Edge," hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit”; and "The Radical Leap," which received Fast Company Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award and was recently named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His latest, co-authored with James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner is "The Radical Promise: Mastering The Art of Doing What You Say You Will Do." Farber's column, The Extreme Leadership Chronicles, runs frequently on Inc.com.

Farber has worked with Johns Hopkins, Cisco, Intel, TriNet, Hyatt and hundreds of other organizations large and small. He has spoken to or worked with virtually every industry there is--from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, public education, retail, and government.

Farber has worked with Johns Hopkins, Cisco, Intel, TriNet, Hyatt and hundreds of other organizations large and small. He has spoken to or worked with virtually every industry there is--from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, public education, retail, and government.