How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer: Learn the Secrets of Influence, Motivation and Persuasion to Become an In-Demand Business Asset

by Kristy Grant-Hart, Joseph Murphy (Foreword)

"How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer" teaches compliance profesionals the secrets of influence, persuasion and motivation so they can become in-demand business assets.

This book is a powerful guide to help practitioners move from the check-the-box mentality of a paper program to become a dynamic business leader.

Roy Snell, the CEO of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics raved, "Kristy Grant-Hart infectiously describes the missing link in the compliance profession - interpersonal skills and influence. If you are or want to be a successful compliance professional - this book is invaluable."

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 3, 2016

About the author

Kristy Grant-Hart is a celebrated former Chief Compliance Officer and current professor of Global Compliance and Ethics. She's the Managing Director of Spark Compliance Consulting, a boutique firm focusing on creating, implementing, energizing and optimizing compliance and data privacy programs for multi-national companies. She can be found at http://www.ComplianceKristy.com

Ms. Grant-Hart is a popular international speaker. She's an American living in London with her British husband and two beloved Californian rescue dogs, Samuel and Mr. Fox.

Reviews

[Trevor · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some good nuggets of wisdom in here, but ultimately this came across more like a social-media hype-driven marketing piece that should have been in a blog post but was expanded to fit a book for a vanity project. That's a long sentence, but you get the idea. In between bits of truly helpful (albeit not revolutionary) advice like "figure out what motivates people, and then use that to get them on board with your ideas," there are random digressions into how to pick restaurants when you travel overseas. By the way, did she mention that she's been to 35 countries?

That's not to say the advice is bad. In fact, her travel advice is quite good. It just isn't, you know, what makes someone a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer (TM). It's more what someone with social media savvy would include in a blog post that is then rolled into a whitepaper-cum-book to meet the page requirements.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for beginners

I should start out by saying this book was not for me. I have a fair amount of experience in the compliance field, and some of the tips on this book would be far more appropriate for someone just starting out than someone with even a couple of years in the job. It was well written, with a pleasant style. so if you are just embarking on a career in compliance, it's worth a quick read. If you have worked in compliance already, this will probably be too basic to provide much help, unless you approach it as a light refresher on people skills. But I would definitely recommend it to someone new to the field.

[Gary Judd]

Great read, plethora of compliance insight

I believe that this book is a must-read for anyone up-and-coming in the compliance world. There's an abundance of easy to understand information that can be applied to more than just compliance.

[Anderson PEREIRA · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like this book and gave me lots of insights. Great book for professionals in compliance.