The Book

Are you a college or university graduate?

Do you support students looking ahead to life after graduation?

Does the alumni strategy in your organisation need inspiration?

Are you curious about the lifelong benefits of your alumni network?

If you answered ‘yes’, The Alumni Way: Building Lifelong Value from Your University Investment is for you!

In this enlightening, original book, Dr Maria Gallo reimagines graduates’ alumni status as a gateway to immense opportunities through professional and personal networks. To discover this alumni potential, Maria guides you through four key traits: reflection, curiosity, passion, and generosity towards your alumni potential.

With a sound academic foundation, combined with practical activities and checklists, The Alumni Way is the ultimate resource for inspiring savvy, growth-minded, active alumni citizens of the world.

The Alumni Way is the perfect gift for graduation or for an incoming university student.

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  • "I implore you: don’t simply grab your degree and run! Embrace the learnings in The Alumni Way to reorient the how’s and why’s of alumni engagement and start building better alumni connections."

    J. Kelly Hoey

    Bestselling author of ‘Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World’ (from The Alumni Way Foreword)

  • "Maria's book will be useful to any college graduate seeking to understand how to leverage their alumni identity towards personal and career growth and equally to higher education professionals charged with deepening alumni and donor engagement."

    Dr Jay Le Roux Dillon EdD

    Executive Director, Alumni Relations, University of California Berkeley

  • “This book provides an important perspective on how everyone can leverage one of their most important connections – their alma mater - to fulfil multiple objectives and goals. The interactive prompts and activities also leverage the power of reflection to make for a meaningful reading journey.”

    Dr. Candy Ho, EdD, CCDP

    Inaugural Assistant Professor, Integrative Career and Capstone Learning University of the Fraser Valley

  • "A terrific read! Next to Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Gallo’s The Alumni Way deserves strong consideration as THE perfect graduation gift."

    Tom Vosper

    Associate Director Development & Alumni Engagement: Toronto Region - The University of British Columbia 

  • “Maria’s book is a practical guide for those of us invested in developing and leading vibrant alumni networks.”

    Jihad Hajjouji

    African Leadership Academy, recent graduate Stanford University Graduate School of Business 

  • “In her guide for how to reap benefits beyond the degree, Gallo asserts we can’t be passive investors. Our alumni status is something we can mine throughout our lives. Gallo provides both a theoretical model as well as a workbook style approach to turn our alumni relationship into actionable goals and outcomes.”

    Barbara Dick

    Assistant Vice-President, Alumni Relations at the University of Toronto 

  • "The Alumni Way presents a powerful new way to look at your alumni network, and an equally powerful plan to leverage that network to transform not just your life and career, but the community around you as well."

    David Burkus

    Bestselling author of Friend of a Friend, member of Thinkers50 

  • "Your alumni affiliation is one of the most powerful forms of social proof you possess. In this timely new book, Maria Gallo shows you how to leverage your investment in order to build connections, deepen relationships, and harness lasting professional credibility." 

    Dorie Clark

    Bestselling author of Stand Out,  

    Executive Education faculty, Duke University Fuqua School of Business  and member of Thinkers 50

  • "With easy and engaging writing, Maria shares her research and practice knowledge on alumni and drives you to unlock the power of the alumni capital. An essential book to maximise your relationship with alumni"

    Diana Aguiar Vieira, PhD

    ICARe Founder (International Conference on Alumni Relations), Associate Professor at Porto Accounting and Business School

  • "This readable book shows how to reach out to institutional networks that are waiting hopefully for you to engage - diverse ecosystems in which you can both give and receive lasting value."

    Keith Harrison-Broninski

    Author of Supercommunities: A Handbook for the 21st Century 

  • “The Alumni Way reimagines the role of alumni from passive observer to shareholder with alumni capital, a powerful form of social capital, to jumpstart any start-up through flows of people, resources and knowledge.”

    Ivan Yong Wei Kit

    Co-Founder, Nanyang Angelz