Biography
TRANSWESTERN ROLE
Emily Nicoll serves at the Managing Director for Transwestern’s Minneapolis office and is responsible for growing operations, elevating client services, attracting new talent and creating new business opportunities. With more than 20 years of experience, her expertise includes opportunity analysis and diagnosis, team assembly, strategy development and execution, and elevating and innovating client services. Emily cultivates lasting relationships with colleagues and clients alike through her generous listening and a tenacious focus on authenticity and integrity. She serves on Transwestern’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Prior to joining Transwestern, Emily was a Senior Vice President at CBRE in the Occupier Services Group, where she focused her career on providing strategic and transactional support for corporate tenants. This involved working with clients across their portfolios to identify and capture unique market opportunities and helping to proactively craft value-add solutions for their real estate needs. During her 20-year tenure, Emily represented high-profile clients such as Cargill, Dorsey & Whitney, Northwestern Mutual, WPP, and the YMCA of the North.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION / RECOGNITION
- LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) – Accredited Professional
- Business Journal’s 2025 Executive of the Year
- Business Journal’s 2025 Women in Business
- Business Journal’s 2025 PowerShift 25
- RE Journal’s 2024 MidWest Hall of Fame
- Minnesota Commercial Real Estate Women (MNCREW) – Board of Directors 2010 – 2013, President 2012
- Minnesota Commercial Association of Realtors (MNCAR)
- Alzheimer’s Association – Board of Directors 2018 – 2024, Board Chair 2020, Executive Committee for Walk to End Alz
- Children’s Theatre Company – Curtain Call Ball Committee, Business and the Arts Luncheon
- Milkweed Editions – Board of Directors 2018 – 2023
- Biznow’s 2023 Minneapolis’s Women Leading Real Estate
- Twin Cities Magazine’s 2020 Notable Women in Commercial Real Estate
EDUCATION
Emily received her BA in Creative Writing and Theology from Denison University in Ohio.