Here is a guidebook for the change agents. For the occasional bearers of bad news. For the people expected to be the adults in the room.

Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice: How Listening, Communicating, and Storytelling Shape Compliance Program Influence” is for the “guardians” of an organization. That’s what compliance expert and co-author Lisa Beth Lentini Walker says of her new book, written together with strategic communications consultant Stef Tschida.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...