About Nikki

Nikki Zotto is a leadership and organizational development consultant partnering with real estate brokerages and high-performing producers to build training programs, navigate leadership transitions, and strengthen organizational capacity. Based in New York City, she designs strategic, research-informed training and onboarding programs grounded in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, tailored to the practical realities of the real estate industry. Ms. Zotto also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Grand Canyon University's Colangelo College of Business, having taught for five semesters in the traditional campus setting and now continuing online since relocating to New York City.

Before returning to her consulting practice, Ms. Zotto worked at a premier luxury real estate brokerage in Manhattan, where she designed and delivered  tech-integrated training programs for high-performing real estate professionals. She previously owned and operated real estate brokerages in Chicago, Illinois; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Phoenix, Arizona, and held roles with organizations including Colibri Group, HomeServices of America, the University of Nebraska's College of Engineering, Baird & Warner–Gold Coast, and the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, gaining a diverse background in both real estate and education.

Ms. Zotto was selected as a team lead for the City of Phoenix's InnovatePHX Hackathon, where she collaborated on innovative solutions to address the city's housing affordability crisis. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Realtor Association of Lincoln's Educational Trust Fund, Nebraska Real Estate Commission's Education Advisory Group, as a Board Member and Past President of the University of Nebraska's Chicago Alumni Association, and was a selected member of the University of Nebraska's Young Alumni Leadership Academy. Ms. Zotto received the Faculty/Staff of the Year award from the University of Nebraska's College of Engineering.

Ms. Zotto earned a Bachelor of Journalism with a major in Advertising and minors in Art, Art History, and History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from Roosevelt University. She is a Doctoral Canidate in General Psychology with an emphasis in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at GCU.  Her dissertation research examines how female residential real estate brokers progress into management roles, using a qualitative descriptive approach.

In her free time, Ms. Zotto enjoys traveling the world with her husband, Tony, and exploring  new hiking trails with her Australian Shepherd, Bruno the Beast!