Inspiring Integrity

How to Win with Compliance and Propel Performance

by L. Stephan Vincze

Your essential leadership guide to transforming compliance from a burdensome requirement into a powerful business force multiplier.

Drawing on over twenty-five years of experience, Vincze reveals the critical role of effective leadership in fostering a culture of integrity to inspire compliance within the life sciences industry. This comprehensive book provides a practical, five-step framework for creating effective compliance programs, emphasizing the importance of defining success, developing a shared strategy, and measuring results. Through real-life anecdotes and case studies, Vincze demonstrates how compliance, when executed correctly, can serve as a competitive advantage and propel performance.

This book is a must-read for CEOs, compliance officers, legal counsels, and other executives, as well as law and business students, investors, and board members interested in effective leadership in the compliance sector. Learn how to inspire your team, mitigate risks, and embed ethics and integrity into your corporate DNA—to drive your company’s success.

When it comes to ensuring a healthy corporate culture—one that understands and respects the business value of compliance—Steve Vincze is the “go-to” professional. Steve and I have worked together in multiple companies to develop and instill a culture that can win with compliance at the forefront. This book is an essential read for those who want to do the right things in the right way. Winning with compliance is the only way to run your business.

Rich Daly
President and CEO, Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Steve Vincze has produced a gem of a book. Rather than looking at compliance as a burden, Steve sees it as a key to performance. Compliance officers and corporate leadership in general should read this book to understand how a compliance program can empower the entire company to do better.

Frank Lavin
Author of Export Now
Former US Ambassador

You would expect this book to be an excellent read for compliance offers and compliance professionals coming from a former chief compliance officer and US Marine. But what was unexpected is twofold: First, it’s a tear jerker as we learn the compelling story of how leadership, honesty, and integrity were the backbone of Vincze’s upbringing and the life of his family as immigrants from Hungary to the US. Second, this is not just a book for compliance officers and compliance professionals. It’s a book for the c-suite and boards of directors that will inspire business executives to work with their compliance teams to do the right thing for their companies and for patients.

Meenakshi Datta
Partner, Sidley, Global Coleader Healthcare Practice
Global Life Sciences Leadership Council Member

Wow. This is an important book. Inspiring Integrity is not just about compliance; it’s about how to develop a culture based on ethics and integrity, which every organization needs. Every CEO and director should read and draw inspiration from it.

Michael Gibbs
Clinical Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Steve Vincze’s pathbreaking book is worth an entire degree program in corporate compliance. He writes movingly about the challenge of leading leaders to embrace and embody the virtues of inspiration, integrity, ethics, and compliance. The health care industry desperately needs to rediscover its bearings, and there’s no better place to start than this insightful volume. Beyond health care, every industry or business, large or small, will benefit from the author’s decades of experience and wisdom.

Thomas Wm. Mayo
Professor of Law & Altshuler University,
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Professor (adj.), Department of Internal Medicine,
UT-Southwestern Medical School
of Counsel, Haynes Boone, LLP., SMU/Dedman School of Law

I have long observed that the most effective professionals have one foot in the library and one foot in the street. That is, they allow theory to inform practice, and practice to inform theory. Given that Steve Vincze has spent a decorated career toggling between those two venues, it comes as no surprise that Inspiring Integrity is both compelling and illuminating. The book offers a fresh perspective from which to view compliance and, as such, is required reading for both emerging and existing leaders.

David A. Shore
Former Associate Dean and current Faculty, Harvard University
Former Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Change, Tianjin University of
Finance and Economics (China)

Reading Inspiring Integrity: How to Win with Compliance and Propel Performance has been a transformative experience. The author eloquently argues that ethical leadership and a culture of integrity are not just regulatory necessities but pivotal drivers of organizational success and personal moral growth. Through compelling narratives and stripped of pedantic education, this book addresses ethics and compliance, illustrating their importance in motivating leaders to redefine the role of compliance in business, demonstrating how adherence to core values and human dignity can drive innovation and performance. The book enthralls you through a genuine narrative, enriched by the author’s personal experience, emphasizing the importance of human dignity, ethical leadership, and the emotional connection needed to inspire integrity and actions for long-term success and (personal) human flourishing.

Ruggero Gramatica, PhD
CEO, Macrocosm Group Honorary Research Associate,
The Oxford University Institute for New Economic Thinking Investment Advisory

Inspiring Integrity, by Steve Vincze, is a revelation for CEOs and board members who are responsible for the success of any kind of organization. The author makes a compelling case that as leaders pursue their business objectives, it should be done with ethics and compliance as core values. Many CEOs and board members think compliance is just a legal checklist of policies and procedures to avoid regulatory problems. The book explains that it is better to inspire all people in the enterprise to want to comply not for compliance’s sake but in pursuit of a greater good. Mr. Vincze explains it is vitally important to integrate your company values and principles to form a culture of compliance.

This is valuable learning for c-suite executives, board members, and shareholders alike.

Rick LeBlanc, BASc (EE), MBA
Operating Partner, Huron Capital Partner
Seasoned CEO and Board Member of companies up to $2B

Inspiring Integrity is special because Steve Vincze is special. The “how to do compliance right” content is full of practical tips and important insights. These come to life through Steve’s eyes as he weaves stories from his professional and personal life into a compelling, and often moving, reflection on what it takes to sustain a winning performance.

Steve Priest
President, Integrity Insight International

I have been working with Steve Vincze and TRESTLE Compliance for over two years in connection with the commercialization of our products in the United States. Steve and TRESTLE have played an important role in shaping our compliance department, providing sound and practical advice whenever they were asked to. Their professionalism is outstanding and we are glad to have partnered with Steve and TRESTLE for our compliance needs.

Inspiring Integrity is a book that should be read by every leader who has ethics and integrity at heart and who are in a position to make a change in cultural behavior within their organization.

Jocelyn Lafond, LL.B., LL.M.
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Theratechnologies

Who better to take lessons from in compliance than Steve Vincze? Steve has built a career and business on the cornerstones of ethics and integrity. Steve was an early adopter of compliance and its key components early in his personal and professional lives. Let Steve’s story and lessons be motivating factors behind your personal, professional, and industrial compliance efforts. In Inspiring Integrity: How to Win With Compliance and Propel Performance readers will undoubtedly find motivation in Steve’s compliance anecdotes, lessons, and examples.

Tyler Wiseman
Chief Legal Officer, Elevar Therapeutics

Steve Vincze is the best at what he does! For nearly thirty years, Steve has inspired greatness by making compliance a force multiplier for the life sciences industry. He does this by “living and breathing” the value that integrity brings to each and every organization from the CEO to those in the trenches interacting with patients on a daily basis. Steve has undoubtedly written the playbook for success!

Kathleen Coffey
Experienced CEO and Board Member

Inspired by amazing chapters of his own life journey and shaped by his life sciences background, L. Stephan Vincze is offering astonishing compliance principles for modern progressive companies and their leadership. Essential takeaways are driven by his deep competence and experience in the compliance field, including highest ethics and integrity standards. An absolute must-read guide for leadership suite, management, and entrepreneurs.

Dr. Volker E. Kuebler, MBA
Experienced CEO and Senior Business Executive

I have known Steve for almost forty years, and he has been a paragon of character and competence in every position he has held. This book stresses the fact that compliance, trust, and integrity must be present within any organization if success is to be achieved. Trust both inside the organization among employees and leadership and outside the organization with clients and customers is cemented by a well-crafted compliance program. Execution of the compliance program must be driven by a corporate leadership culture of trust and integrity. Steve’s book provides a vital roadmap to ensuring compliance is a way of life and an uncompromising standard, instead of an afterthought viewed as an inconvenience.

John F. Sattler
Lt. General, US Marine Corps (Ret.)