The Mom Project

About The Mom Project

At The Mom Project, we’re committed to helping women remain active in the workforce in every stage of their journey, and we’re proud to work with employers who are committed to designing and supporting a better workplace.

Joining forces to #ChampionMoms

Serena Williams is on our team as strategic advisor

We’re working together toward a future where women don’t have to choose between their families and successful careers.

“I’m calling on CEOs, Heads of People, and Business Leaders big and small. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a team of 1 or 100,000; if you’re hiring, are you considering hiring moms? Together, we can influence how work gets done and build a better workplace for the future.”

Serena Williams

Our momentum with Serena coupled with escalating commitment from companies across the United States will fundamentally impact the future of work. Read more

Our promise

Create opportunity

We create opportunities for women to engage on their terms with incredible companies that need their talent and expertise. We facilitate connections and push for change at both the company and policy level.

Unlock insights

We have developed a people-first, research-based approach to mining workplace insights, allowing companies to understand how to best support working parents through innovative policies and improving best practices.

Inspire community

Our community for working moms (a.k.a. all moms!) allows women to support each other, connect to career goal support and gain access to the resources needed to thrive in their personal working parenthood journey. #allmomswork

Origin story

An estimated 43% of highly skilled women leave the workforce after becoming mothers. This is the jarring statistic I read while on maternity leave from Procter & Gamble with my first child. I started to imagine a future where women would not have to choose between parenthood and their careers, and could not stop thinking about what a real solution might look like. Inspired by the birth of my first son and on behalf of moms everywhere, I founded The Mom Project in 2016.

More than one million American women will become parents this year, joining the ranks of the working parenthood — a vital segment of the workforce. Simultaneously, businesses are challenged to retain talented employees as they navigate through this period of life, and struggle to find the experienced talent they need to grow. The Mom Project bridges the gap, creating opportunities for companies and professionals to grow and thrive.

Women staying engaged in the workforce on their terms is good for families. It’s good for business. It’s good for all of us.

With over 300,000 talented professionals in our network and 2,000 companies signed up to hire moms to drive their businesses forward…we’re just getting started.

Will you be part of our story to build a better workplace? I sincerely hope so.

ALLISON ROBINSON

CEO/Founder of The Mom Project

Mom of two

Leadership

ALLISON ROBINSON

CEO, Co-founder

After having her son Asher in 2015, Allison identified how universally challenging it can be for American mothers to juggle the demands of motherhood with a full-time career and decided to tackle the issue on a national scale. Prior to founding The Mom Project, Allison spent 8 years at Procter and Gamble working on go to market strategies for leading household brands with a special focus on moms during her tenure on the Pampers brand. As CEO, Allison is responsible for delivering on the company’s mission of building a better workplace for women while supporting our customers through innovative talent solutions that help them attract and retain the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives they need to propel their businesses forward.

GREGORY ROBINSON

CFO/COO, Co-founder

Greg is the COO/CFO of The Mom Project. In this role, Greg focuses on scaling The Mom Project Marketplace, Finance and Legal capabilities. Before co-founding The Mom Project, Greg spent 5 years in Private Equity Operations for L-Catterton, the largest consumer focused private equity fund in the world, where he was COO/CFO of their portfolio company, PatientPoint. Before L-Catterton, Greg was with Alvarez & Marsal focusing on turnarounds and consolidations in Europe; as well as Manager of FP&A for start-up first-class only, Eos Airlines. Having come from a family with four sisters and strong female role models, Greg believes that it is important that men, as well as women, play an active role in creating an inclusive, stronger, and more productive workplace.

DR. PAMELA COHEN

President, Mom Project Labs

Pam Cohen is a behavioral research scientist with expertise in predictive analytics. She combines qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to create measurement systems and analyze data on workplace sentiment and engagement, family friendly policies, corporate reputation, and social responsibility, linking those and other relevant intangibles to key performance outcomes. Her teaching and research is focused on applications of behavioral economics and social psychology.

COLLEEN CURTIS

Head of Community and Marketing

Colleen spent 9 years at Yelp where she most recently served as the VP of International Community & Marketing, overseeing a multi-cultural team dedicated to delightful user experience and market expansion across 27 countries. She's advised startup clients in the art of user communication and acquisition, community building and infrastructure as well as international expansion of user communities and scaling internal culture. She brings deep executive-level experience in M&A, integration and growth of user communities, and is driven by products and solutions that bridge the gap between online and offline experiences for the greater good.

MATT McNAMARA

CTO

Matt leads our product, engineering, and design teams, focusing on the scaling of the marketplace, data driven talent curation, and HR ecosystem integrations. Prior to The Mom Project, Matt was the Director of Engineering at Expensify.com and worked as a consultant for early stage start-ups focusing on pro-employee and D&I processes. Matt's experience in technology and product focuses on scalable infrastructure, implementation with nimble teams, bottom-up market adoption supporting a wide range of customer sizes, and intuitive user experiences.