KIKI Meet Kidder

Kiki Kidder makes real estate an art form. With a Bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Colorado Boulder, Kiki sees her career as an opportunity to create the ideal story for each client. One look at her website and social media accounts, and her love of creativity and storytelling are on full display. She’s unafraid of embracing technology to showcase her properties and process, which allows clients to feel like they know Kiki before they even meet.

In person, Kiki’s compassion and trustworthiness outmatch her online presence. She describes herself as a “glass all the way full type person.” As a realtor®, Kiki knows how to turn her clients’ dreams into a pictureperfect reality.

Kiki moved to Boulder County when she was a child and “literally grew up in the real estate industry” surrounded by her parents’ friends who were all realtors®. She remembers seeing them step away to answer messages from their pagers with her parents’ landline. It wasn’t until Kiki moved to Los Angeles to pursue her film career that she realized she missed the fresh air of Boulder.

Upon returning to Colorado and considering various careers, her parents suggested that she become a realtor®, and the family launched the boutique brokerage Kidder & Company. Adopting her father’s favorite of maintaining relationships over her remarkable career. saying “change or die,” Kiki embraced the change and found new ways to be her creative, passionate self in real estate.

Kiki knew that, like filmmaking, the real estate industry was all about people. She loves the human connection she finds helping people actualize their ideal reality—even better than a movie. She also discovered that the real estate process came naturally to her from observing family friends over the years. By keeping a people-focused mindset, Kiki has achieved notable success in her career. After more than 20 years in the industry, Kiki was voted in the top one percent of agents nationwide by RealTrends and The Wall Street Journal. The accolades are a testament to her tried and true methods

In 2020, Kiki assembled friends and mentees to form the Kiki Collective alongside her brokerage, Compass. She describes it as a “collective of agents and professionals who embrace collaboration.” With her close-knit team, Kiki wants clients to understand the behind-thescenes process of real estate. Each member contributes to the optimal home buying and selling experience while upholding Kiki’s elite level of professionalism. The Collective includes an operations manager and logistics coordinator, Leah Hudson, who balances Kiki’s passion with practicality. Additionally, Kiki offers an in-house videographer who she handpicked to shoot her polished home tour videos. She continues to use her love of collaboration to bring people together. “I’m a connector,” she explains. The idea for the collective sprang to Kiki’s mind during the COVID-19 pandemic. The time at home taught Kiki to slow down her nonstop work style and expand her pursuit for meaningful human relationships. The group embodies her empathetic, humanistic approach. She can focus on her two favorite aspects of real estate: people and technology. It’s another cutting-edge way Kiki finds connection and creativity in her work.

“Paint a perfect scenario for me of what you envision the closing to look like,” Kiki recently told a new client. Kiki pushed to market their house quickly and the timing paid off. There were multiple offers on the property, higher than what the client expected. When they secured the contract, multiple colleagues relayed to Kiki that she handled the competitive sale with open communication and thoughtfulness. Utilizing her philosophy to slow down to be present, Kiki edits each client experience to ensure she understands them and where they are at each step of the real estate process. “There’s a realtor® for every type of person out there . . . with the concept of being able to represent a client, you have to have a connection with that client,” she says of the industry. Every person she works with is a prospective member of an extended family of clients and colleagues.

Alongside supporting her work family, Kiki practices thoughtfulness and presence with her real family. Twelve years ago, Kiki mixes her personal and professional sides and in the fun Instagram Reels she creates. Sometimes the videos show off her adorable mini golden doodle Axl-Rose, while other times they take clients inside the homes she has listed. Her next creative idea is a slideshow of her daughter Roxy’s life to celebrate her upcoming graduation. She has over 10,000 photos and videos on her phone ready for more Reels of her family and business. met her soulmate. Despite her love of technology at work, Kiki chose a real life connection instead of online dating. She met her husband Bradley through a friend and the two blended their families. Now she and Bradley often travel to Florida to visit her in-laws. Their personal goal this year is to spend more time with both their parents. As a mother to two of her own kids and two “bonus kids”, Luke, Max, Roxy and Lily, she balances her attention between all of their many milestones. She encourages her children to follow their dreams and has a unique way of sharing their life. On her Instagram page, she

When asked what drives her, Kiki says, “looking at where I have fear and overcoming it.” As a child, Kiki feared the feeling of falling she encountered in dreams. As soon as she was old enough, she bungee-jumped from hot air balloons, jumped off of cliffs at Lake Powell and skydived to conquer her fear. Another fear came from the film Jaws, though she loves water. She bought a paddle board and took to the Boulder Reservoir to face the movie monster. Next year, she’s taking her fear-conquering a step further by going on a cruise to Buenos Aires. Kiki even bought a Jaws t-shirt to wear on the trip. If the exposure therapy works, Kiki dreams of the other destinations she can reach by cruise ship, “I just have to get over this fear, but it could open the door to so many things.” By embracing fear, Kiki confronts problems even when they seem insurmountable. Kiki knows the key to creating a life-changing story as a realtor® and creative person is choosing courage.

You can reach Kiki Kidder at kiki.kidder@compass.com or (303) 817-6100.