As Senior Director of Research, Evaluation, and Impact, Nikki Nagler designs systems to measure The Leadership Academy’s effectiveness, leveraging findings to drive innovation, continuous program improvement, and to help the organization’s staff and the education leaders they support to make stronger, data-driven decisions. She works closely with the programs team and with education leaders directly to conceptualize research and consistent evaluation methods, instruments, and processes, ultimately gathering qualitative and quantitative data to help inform strategic initiatives and actions.
Nikki also conducts research and literature reviews that help to support the organization’s frameworks, tools, and resources, and has co-authored several scholarly articles on education leader coaching and organizational health. She is also a founding member of an internal team that focuses on organizational culture.
She joined The Leadership Academy in 2016 after previously working as the Director of Assessment for Hunter College of the City University of New York. In that role, she collaborated with faculty to design and implement learning outcomes and assessment initiatives that promoted continuous improvement and institutional effectiveness.
Nikki holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Hunter College. She is based in New York City.
