LAUNCHING MAY 26, 2026
If you can define it, you can measure it. If you can measure it, you can achieve it.
You Can Measure Anything! is a new book for K–12 leaders who are done hoping their strategies are effective and ready to show it.
Order by June 26 to join the LIVE Book Study. Details below.
ROOTING OUT WHAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK
Your strategic plan is already in the drawer. So is every goal you couldn't measure.
You know what your district needs to achieve: Belonging. Engagement. Culture. Safety. Transparency. Those outcomes are already written into your strategic plan. You fought to put them there.
But Belonging does not come with a built-in measuring stick, and Culture does not show up in a disciplinary referral log. The goals that could transform your school quietly stall because it isn't always clear how to define those outcomes first, so they can be measured.
I think it is working… I just don't know how to prove it.
Our strategic plan is just sitting on a shelf.
We measure what's easy, not what matters.
Our board wants evidence and I don't know what to show them.
We set the goal. We just don't know if we're hitting it.
ROOTING OUT WHAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK
You're not avoiding these goals.
You were never given a process that works for measuring them.
We have listened to enough school leaders to know you care deeply about these outcomes. The last thing you need is to set a goal you can't prove you hit. When it comes to placing it in a strategic plan, it feels like you're setting yourself up to fail if you can't define something clearly enough to measure it.
That fear is legitimate. And it has cost your school its best evidence.
It's not that you didn't care enough or collect enough. No one gave you a process for the definitional work that has to happen before a single data point is collected.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Some concepts just seem too intangible. Until they're not.
How can you determine if you are achieving goals related to ideas like engagement, belonging, or transparency if you are not sure how to define, let alone measure them? Do you leave these goals out of your strategic conversations because they're too hard to measure?
The good news is… You Can Measure Anything!
⬥
Engage your school community
in building clarity and shared understanding of your institution's direction.
⬥
Use existing research that works for you
not against your goals, so prior data accelerate progress instead of impeding it.
⬥
Translate intangible concepts
into what they look like at the classroom, program, and institutional levels, so you can connect them to clearly defined, measurable behaviors.
⬥
Prevent goal drift
measure progress with clarity, and build a framework that carries you through setbacks to sustainable success.
When you work through our Diamond Definition™ process to make intangible concepts tangible so you can define them and measure them reliably, you will gain accurate insights about those concepts, make better decisions, and achieve greater results.
The 4-step Diamond Definition™ Process. Before you collect a single data point.
THE METHOD · DIAMOND DEFINITION™
Download the Diamond Definition Worksheet →
You Can Measure Anything is built around our method, the Diamond Definition™ — a four-step process for turning the outcomes you care about most into the outcomes you can actually measure. It's the definitional work that must happen before any data collection can mean anything.
Think of it like hiring. Before you read a résumé, you write the job description. Before you collect survey responses, you define what you're measuring. The Diamond Definition™ is how that gets done — with your community, in your context.
Step 1
Clarify
Build a shared working definition with input from your community.
Step 3
Capture
Identify what the concept looks like in observable behaviors.
Step 2
Compare
Research how the construct has been defined and measured elsewhere.
Step 4
Communicate
Formalize the definition so that everyone is working from the same understanding.
Step 1
Clarify
Build a shared working definition with input from your community.
Step 2
Compare
Research how the construct has been defined and measured elsewhere.
Step 3
Capture
Identify what the concept looks like in observable behaviors.
Step 4
Communicate
Formalize the definition so that everyone is working from the same understanding.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Meet Dr. Nicole Alioto.
25+ years turning measurement into momentum.
Dr. Nicole Alioto is the creator of You Can Measure Anything® and the author of a system that helps school leaders measure what they've always been told is impossible to quantify. With more than 25 years at the intersection of education, data, and human behavior, across K–12, higher education, and public sector analytics, Nicole is known for making data feel less like a burden and more like a superpower.
Her sessions are equal parts rigor and revelation. All stuff, no fluff. She works with K–12 leaders, associations, and teams who are done hoping for success and ready to achieve it.
Two-time TEDx speaker
⬥
Two-time author · Your School Sucks and You Can Measure Anything!
⬥
Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Connecticut
⬥
Host of the You Can Measure Anything!® Podcast
⬥
Founder + CEO, Alla Breve Educational Consulting · NYS Certified Woman-Owned Business
⬥
THE FOREWORD · AMY BERRY, PH.D.
This group could have benefited from the practical process Nicole has developed.
I was recently working with a group of school leaders and the conversation turned to gathering evidence. "We used to send out that survey about engagement. Whatever happened to that?
We stopped doing it because we realized it wasn't giving us any information we could use. They weren't the right questions. But then we got stuck and didn't know what to do about it, so we just stopped running it."
This group, and many more like them, could have benefited from the practical and easy to follow process that Nicole has developed. It would have helped them to ask better questions from the start, rather than waste time collecting the wrong kind of information — or at least help them to fix the flawed survey they had created.
AMY BERRY, PH.D.
Author of Reimagining Student Engagement: From Disrupting to Driving and The Engagement Partnership. Foreword to You Can Measure Anything!
Two ways to start.
Pick the one that fits where your team is right now.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
FOR INDIVIDUAL LEADERS + SMALL TEAMS
Single Copy + Live Book Study
Your copy of You Can Measure Anything!, plus a seat at the live Book Study with Dr. Alioto. If you've ever debated what success actually means, or how to measure it, this is a good place to start.
DATE
June 29, 2026 · 11:30 AM–1:00 PM EST
FORMAT
Live virtual · facilitated discussion (not a workshop or chapter walkthrough)
ACCESS BY
June 26, 2026 · book insiders + book buyers only
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Paperback, e-book, or audiobook — your choice
Seat at the live Book Study with Dr. Alioto
A single, focused conversation designed for thinking more clearly, not adding more to your plate
After ordering, send your receipt to hello@allabreveconsulting.com and we'll send your access details.
FOR DISTRICTS + ASSOCIATIONS LEADERSHIP TEAMS
Book Set + 2-Hour Diamond Definition™ Workshop
A set of books for your cabinet or leadership team, plus a live 2-hour Diamond Definition™ workshop delivered by Dr. Alioto. Your team works through a challenging concept and leaves with a clear definition and measurement strategy.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Book set for your leadership team (25 book minimum)
2-hour Diamond Definition™ workshop with Dr. Alioto
Pre-workshop readiness call with your team lead
Post-workshop summary deck your team can take into the next board meeting
Already pre-sold to the first district. Reserve yours →
Districts and associations: bulk orders via purchase order. We'll get your PD, association conference, or board retreat copies where they need to go.
SPEAKING + KEYNOTE
Bring You Can Measure Anything® to your conference, association, or district.
The keynote is the LEAD phase of the L.A.S.E.R. Framework for Strategic Planning™ — the entry point to Dr. Alioto's full consulting system. It's where teams learn to define the outcomes they've been struggling to measure, before a single data point is collected.
Perfect for: state and national education conferences, association programming, superintendent convenings, board retreats, and association professional learning events.
01
A working definition of the outcome their district has been avoiding.
02
The Diamond Definition™ method — portable, repeatable, immediately applicable.
03
Permission to move intangible outcomes out of the "too hard" pile.
04
A language for measurement that their board, their community, and their grant-makers can all get behind.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions leaders ask before they order.
-
May 26, 2026. No pre-order period — the paperback, e-book, and audiobook all release the same day on Amazon. Order by June 26 to secure your seat at the live Book Study on June 29.
-
Paperback, e-book, and audiobook — all available on launch day.
-
K–12 school leaders — superintendents, cabinet members, principals, association programming directors, and board members — who have strategic goals they care about but can't find the right evidence. It's also for anyone in education, higher education, or the public sector who has been asked to measure outcomes that don't come with a built-in measuring stick.
-
Yes. This is the book for leaders who care about the outcome, not the spreadsheet. The Diamond Definition™ process is about clarity, not statistics. Dr. Alioto's entire method is built on this principle: the barrier to measurement isn't math — it's definitional clarity.
-
Yes. Bulk orders are available via purchase order for districts, associations, and conferences. Use the bulk inquiry link and we'll get you set up — including any association PD event or board retreat logistics.
-
A live, virtual, facilitated discussion of You Can Measure Anything! with Dr. Alioto on June 29, 2026, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM EST. This live study is not a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough nor a workshop. It’s an insightful conversation designed for leaders who want to think more clearly about what success means and how to measure it. Access is limited to book insiders and those who purchase the book (print, audio, or e-book) by June 26. Send your receipt to hello@allabreveconsulting.com and we'll send your access details.
-
Yes. The book is the LEAD phase of the L.A.S.E.R. Framework for Strategic Planning™, the front door of a full consulting system delivered through Alla Breve Educational Consulting. After the book, the natural next step is the Diamond Definition™ workshop (also available as a bundle above) or a full district strategic planning engagement.
-
Dr. Amy Berry, author of Reimagining Student Engagement: From Disrupting to Driving and The
Engagement Partnership. Her research on student engagement runs in parallel with the Diamond Definition™ work, which is why the collaboration made so much sense.