About Our Founder and How Mom Corps Came to Be

Allison O'Kelly, founder and CEO of Mom Corps, graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia, passed the CPA exam on the first try, and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. When she went to work for global professional services network KPMG, she was quickly assigned her location’s largest client. Later, O’Kelly took a position with Toys "R" Us and was placed on a fast-track management program.

Then she had children.

Just as O'Kelly always strived to be successful professionally, she held the same standards for herself as a mother. Unfortunately, in the corporate world, she was unable to find a balance between career and family. She opted to start her own practice, serving small businesses with strategic planning, accounting, and tax services.

O'Kelly soon hired five other women, all with families, to help serve her client base. "Over time I saw many women, mothers just like me, who wanted to stay in the workforce but didn’t know how to find opportunities which would allow them to preserve symmetry in their lives," O’Kelly said. "Because of this obstacle, many mothers leave the workforce altogether. At the same time, I noticed corporations were struggling to find high-caliber employees."

Her observations led O'Kelly to a distinctive calling. While she wanted to create meaningful opportunities for a much larger community of professionals raising families, she also wanted to continue serving clients with excellence—yet fundamentally change the way companies fill their intermittent staffing needs.

This is how Mom Corps was born.