Chief of Mom Life in the press.
Coverage, announcements, and background on the work of reframing motherhood as leadership.
Appearances.
Abby Poklar joined NBC4 anchor Jennifer Bullock on The Mother Load, her series exploring the highs and lows of modern parenting, for a conversation about the thesis at the heart of Chief of Mom Life: every day, Moms navigate competing priorities, allocate limited resources, resolve conflict, and anticipate needs before they become crises. If these responsibilities existed inside a company, we would call it leadership without hesitation. When it happens inside a home, we call it something else.
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The idea behind the work, and the two people building it.
Motherhood Is Leadership
Every day, Moms navigate competing priorities, allocate limited resources, resolve conflict, anticipate needs before they become crises, and guide the development of human beings. If these responsibilities existed inside a company, we would call it leadership without hesitation. When it happens inside a home, we call it something else.
Chief of Mom Life exists to close that gap. It is a leadership framework and community for modern motherhood, built on a simple premise: the complexity of Mom Life is not a personal failing. It is the reality of leading one of the most demanding roles in modern life, usually without the frameworks, language, or support that leadership normally comes with.
Read the full essay: Motherhood Is Leadership →Two sisters. One realization.
Chief of Mom Life began with a shared discovery between two sisters on very different paths, living similarly complex lives. They live across the country from one another, with different careers and different interests, and stayed close by regularly trading systems, ideas, and practical ways to make daily life work better. Over time, those conversations revealed something important: the same leadership principles that held up under pressure at work made a real difference when applied at home. What began as personal problem-solving became a shared passion, and then a framework.
As a Chief of Staff and senior executive at one of the country's leading educational nonprofits, Abby built her career around clarity amid complexity: protecting priorities, anticipating change, and designing systems that hold under pressure. She earned her Master's degree while working full time, shaping a view of leadership forged in real life, not ideal conditions.
Motherhood surfaced the same friction she knew from work: endless decisions, competing demands, and urgency crowding out intention. When she applied the tools she used professionally to Mom Life, everything shifted. Structure reduced the mental load. Systems created clarity. What mattered most stayed protected.
Her work helps Moms lead with clarity, confidence, and structure, grounded in the belief that intention must be designed for, not hoped for.
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An MIT-educated systems engineer with an MBA, Jessica spent fifteen years at a leading tech company, most recently as a Director focused on data center infrastructure planning and operational efficiency, designing systems that produce reliable outcomes at scale, around the world.
There came a point where Mom Life felt like swimming upstream. She began rebuilding intentionally through small, sustainable changes, starting with a five-minute daily ritual and an accountability partner. Those changes compounded. Life became more intentional without becoming rigid.
Her work helps Moms build the clarity, confidence, and structure to lead with intention, without adding pressure. She believes community is not a bonus. It is what makes the rhythm last.
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