Every Experience Is an Opportunity: Kelly Nagel on Building a CRE Career (#154)

Icons of DC Area Real Estate · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 49m · transcript

Bio

Kelly Sewell Nagel is the Steers Endowed Professor of the Practice in Real Estate and Head of Real Estate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Her career spans management consulting with Accenture, federal service as a senior program manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and real estate roles at Regency Centers, Archstone, and AvalonBay Communities, followed by leadership of Aimco’s East Coast investments and a national residential platform at EDENS. She is founder of Residy, an advisory practice built around her Near Enemies framework, a ULI trustee, chair of…