Geoffrey Nagle, MSW, MPH, PhD
Geoff Nagle is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University. He has dedicated his career to working on behalf of young children and families and supporting non-profits to achieve their mission. In 2022, Dr. Nagle established Alliance Strategic Advising and Research to support non-profit leaders as they strive to increase impact, improve financial stability, and expand the influence of their organization.
Dr. Nagle has served in numerous non-profit roles over the past 20 years. Most recently, he was the Chief of External Impact at Clayton Early Learning in Denver. There he advanced systems change, including research and evaluation, workforce development and innovation, external products and services, and policy and advocacy within Clayton’s framework that nurtures a whole child, whole family approach.
Prior to his role at Clayton, Dr. Nagle served as the President/Chief Executive Officer of Erikson Institute in Chicago. Erikson is a leading force for improving the lives of young children and their families through knowledge, research, service, and advocacy and the nation's premier graduate school in child development. During his tenure, Erikson’s clinical work expanded to serve 10,000 children each year through mental health clinics and child abuse intervention services. In addition, Erikson’s policy and community impact programs were born and today receives national attention. As a result of this expanded work, increased student enrollment in the graduate school, and breaking fundraising records, Erikson’s operating budget grew 57% to almost $25 million with an endowment of $50 million during his tenure as president/CEO.
Dr. Nagle joined Erikson from Tulane University where he was the founding director of the Tulane Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Tulane School of Medicine. His advocacy in Louisiana resulted in Quality Start, Louisiana’s child-care quality rating and improvement system, and passage of the School Readiness Tax Credits legislation, which, since implementation in 2008, has benefited Louisiana residents with tax credits in excess of $110 million in support of quality child-care. Portions of the tax credit package have since been replicated in Nebraska and Colorado.
Dr. Nagle has presented nationally and internationally on the pivotal topics that impact a child’s early years. In 2016, he received the World Association for Infant Mental Health Sonya Bemporad Award, recognizing his work to advance social and public policies that contribute to the mental health and overall benefit of infants, toddlers, and their families. He is also a past recipient of the Commissioner’s Award for Child Abuse Prevention from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Charles M. Vanchiere Child Advocacy Award from the Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.