"Approach the act of leadership as you'd approach an extreme sport: learn to love the fear and exhilaration that naturally comes with the territory."

Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated, an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. His latest book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson In Leadership, was a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed as "a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit."

Steve's first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, is already considered a classic in the leadership field. It received Fast Company magazine's Readers' Choice Award and was recently named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

Leading From Experience
In 1989, after having run his own financial services company, Farber devoted his professional life to the field of leadership development and has been at it ever since. He was director of service programs at TMI, an international training consultancy, and then worked for 6 years as Vice President and Official Mouthpiece (that's what it said on his business card) of The Tom Peters Company where he met several of his mentors including author/gurus Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes, and Terry Pearce.

In 2000, Farber established his own company, Extreme Leadership, Inc, where he is president and CEO. He is also the co-founding director of The Center for Social Profit Leadership, a non-profit organization formed to serve the leadership development needs of social entrepreneurs, and he sits on the Board of Directors of the world-renown program, Up With People, a global leadership program for students from 18 to 29 years old.

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.

• 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. In this wildly popular speech, Steve shows you how to use the LEAP framework - Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof - to radically improve your organization and your life.
  
  
• Greater Than Yourself : 3 Steps to Attaining the New Gold Standard of Leadership - The truly great leaders in life and work become so by causing others to be greater than themselves. In this program - based on his new book, Greater Than Yourself - Steve shows that dedicating yourself to bringing others along so that 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, Give Yourself, Replicate Yourself.
  
  
• 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 this program, Steve will show you four personal strategies for being the architect of transformation from any position or level in the company.
  
  

Books by Steve Farber...
Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership	The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World	The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership