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Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice: How Listening, Communicating, and Storytelling Shape Compliance Program Influence (CCI Press 2021)
By Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida
Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida – a compliance expert and communications pro, respectively – present actionable insights into how to forge relationships across the organization, craft a compelling compliance narrative, and spur your audience to action.
Available Now
Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice
How Listening, Communicating, and Storytelling Shape Compliance Program Influence (CCI Press, 2021)
Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida – a compliance expert and communications pro, respectively – present actionable insights into how to forge relationships across the organization, craft a compelling compliance narrative, and spur your audience to action.
Listen in to the Women in Ethics and Compliance Global webinar from August 16, 2021 where both authors discuss compliance programs and communication.
Listen in to the Great Women in Fraud Podcast Kelly Paxton as Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida discuss their upcoming book 'Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice.'
In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida join Tom Fox to discuss their new book 'Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice.'
There are a lot of skills that compliance professionals need – communication, persuasion, negotiation, patience, and even legal – and on this episode of the Compliance Perspective Podcast with Adam Turteltaub, Lisa Beth Lentini Walker, and Stef Tschida, are suggesting another: organizational scholarship.
Sofia El Mansouri, The Compliance Lady, and founder of Compliantly LLC. reviews 'Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice' on her September 13th, 2021 blog.
Authors Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida join host Richard Levick of In House Warrior to discuss their new book, 'Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice: How Listening, Communicating, and Storytelling Shape Compliance Program Influence'.
In the latest episode of The Ethics Experts podcast, by Compliance Line, host Nick Gallo had the privilege of chatting with Lisa Beth and Stef about their new awesome book, “Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice: How Listening, Communicating, and Storytelling Shape Compliance Program."
In this episode of the Integrity Through Compliance Podcast, AMI’s Jay Rosen interviews Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida about their new book, Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice. They wrote this book because they saw the importance of clear, effective communication to manage through tough situations like data breaches, acts of terrorism, and other chaotic events and in the day-to-day interactions that make or break a career.
Aly McDevitt of Compliance Week calls 'Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice' a guide for ethics-minded professionals on her September 30th opinion article.
Learn how to communicate with authors Lisa Beth Lentini Waler and Stef Tschida on the most recent episode of the Corporate Thought Podcast.
Praise for Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice:
Advance Praise for Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice:
“Wow. Reading “Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice” by Lisa Beth Lentini Walker and Stef Tschida is a breath of fresh air. I’m a big believer in storytelling as a vehicle to educate – and communicate – and the authors bring that concept to life in an area that sorely needs it: compliance.
Written in an engaging style, it imparts knowledge in a subtle manner – so that you don’t even realize that you’re learning. Who can deny they don’t love a chapter entitled, “Intentional Relationship Management: Manage Your Relationships Like a BOSS!”
The chapter on listening really drove home the importance of this book for me. It’s the secret to truly winning over colleagues, over peers and those above and below you. It’s a lesson we don’t get taught enough. Bravo! And well worth your time!”
“… an excellent primer for those seeking a career in corporate compliance and a terrific refresher for those already in such roles.”
“… simple and actionable”
“… extremely helpful even for me, a person who has been in the compliance field for over 20 years.”
“Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice” is an easy-to-read guidebook...they did a brilliant job describing the keys to effective and strategic communication in laymen’s terms."
“Every once in a while a business book focused on the world of those charged with protecting the enterprise comes out and puts it all in perspective. Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice is that book for compliance and information security professionals. It captures the necessary along with the important for those in fields where heads-down is often the norm, but effective communication is critical to success."
"Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice, provides a thorough framework for communicating up, down and across an organization to establish buy-in of a compliance program, to drive comprehension and alignment, and to effect positive cultural and operational change."
“This is an engaging, business-minded book that you can read through in a couple of hours – but you’ll keep coming back for reminders."
"The principles and tips are universally applicable for anyone who wants to improve their effectiveness as a communicator.”
"From learning to understand how your organization communicates and using that to shape the way you tell your stories...Lisa Beth and Stef will help you raise your own communications game, make your program more robust, and keep you in better alignment with larger organization goals and values."
"Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice is the perfect guide for students in the Ethics & Compliance space. I’ve included this book as required reading in my core MSL course in the Organizational Ethics & Compliance space. With topics on understanding your organization, relationship management and building your internal and external networks, knowing your audience, becoming a better listener, and the data points included that hit home the importance of communication tactics such repetition, this book has both breadth and actionable specificity. The right audience is beginner all the way up to executive - it has the variety to meet you where you are at and allow you to walk away a better communicator. Thank you Lisa Beth and Stef for emphasizing this important topic in our field!"
About the Authors
About the Authors
Lisa Beth Lentini Walker is a seasoned compliance professional and an attorney qualified in New York, New Jersey, DC, and Minnesota. Lisa Beth has worked with leading global organizations to successfully launch, lead, and support compliance programs in an evolving world in which risk management is no longer enough. Along the way, she learned the importance of cultivating strong relationships and the power of great communication to connect people to the organization’s vision.
Lisa Beth’s daily mantra is “People are at the heart of every great story, and stories are how people remember.” She believes that resilient organizations are powered by people and fueled by purpose. Lisa Beth has had the opportunity to work with private and public companies, nonprofits, and professional organizations to put values into action.
A teacher at heart, Lisa Beth has always embraced opportunities to help grow and cultivate future leaders. She is happiest when surrounded by family, friends, and colleagues who want to make a difference and who rejoice in the successes of others. Fortunately, she has been able to combine her love of education, communication, and subject matter expertise into a career that keeps her excited about the art of possibility every day.
Stef Tschida spent fifteen years working in all aspects of corporate communications before starting her own communications consultancy. She has supported some of the biggest organizations in some of the most highly regulated industries, but today Stef finds she’s most passionate about helping small and mid-sized companies clearly communicate to those who matter most to their success.
Stef’s professional motto is, “No stakeholder left behind,” and that’s exactly the promise she brings to her work. Stef has led public relations, client communications, and internal communications at regional and global levels, so she thinks about all relevant audiences when it’s time to communicate information.
Growing up, Stef loved to write her own books, mixing up the first and last names of her friends to form the characters. Ever the communicator, when she found herself in trouble at school, it was always for talking too much. Stef counts herself lucky to have built a career around her innate love of communicating.