Mom Invented

Tamara Monosoff

Mom Inventors, Inc. is a dynamic company comprised of three key elements: consumer products with the trademarked Mom Invented® brand, an online community providing Information, Interaction & Inspiration, and educational offerings for women entrepreneurs produced by best-selling author, columnist and AOL Coach, Tamara Monosoff.

With over fifteen years of experience in business operations, program management, and corporate communications, Monosoff combines strategic vision and entrepreneurial spirit with being a Mom to Sophia (7) and Kiara (5). It was her most recent role as a Mom that provided the inspiration for Mom Inventors.  After going through the product development process herself when inventing the award-winning TP Saver™, while simultaneously juggling small children, Tamara found the support and guidance of other entrepreneurs to be invaluable.  This inspired her to create a web-based community for other women providing free resources related to the invention and product development process, a newsletter, message board, online store, and a featured successful woman entrepreneur each month (www.mominventors.com).

Tamara with her daughter Kiara and Katie Couric

Tamara’s best-selling book, The Mom Inventors Handbook: How to Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing was launched by McGraw-Hill in 2005. Her book, Secrets of Millionaire Moms: Learn How They Turned Great Ideas into Booming Businesses – and How You Can Too! hit bookstores globally May 2007. She is also the “Ask the Expert” columnist for Entrepreneur.com on the topic of Inventing, the “Start-Up Smarts” columnist for WomenEntrepreneur.com, was Working Mother magazine’s “Hero of the Month” (July 2005), was selected by the Contra Costa Times as one of the ten most “Influential Women of the East Bay” (March 2006) and was honored by the Contra Costa Council as the “Small Business Person of the Year” (2006). Tamara was selected as the “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” (June 2007) by the East Bay Business Times.

Since May 2004, Tamara and her products have been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, The New Yorker, TIME, PEOPLE, OPRAH and Fortune Small Business magazines. She has appeared on ABC’s The View with Rosie O’Donnell, NBC’s Today show with Katie Couric, NBC’s Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, ABC’s Good Morning America Weekend, The Bloomberg Report, BusinessWeek TV, CNN News LIVE, CNNfn, CNNSaturday, CNNMoney, CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNBC’s The Wall Street Journal Report, AOL, ABC News Now, The WB Network, Inside Edition, and many local news outlets including KTLA (Los Angeles Morning News), NBC-11 and KTVU-2 (San Francisco), WESH-TV (Orlando), ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX (New York, Denver, Chicago, Seattle, Oregon, San Diego, Arizona).  She has been featured on prestigious radio shows such as; CNN Radio, National Public Radio (NPR), and BBC-Scotland, local radio shows nationwide, and Internet Radio (XM & Sirius).  She has also been featured in dozens of local and trade publications.

Tamara and her husband, Brad Kofoed, with President Bill Clinton

Prior to founding Mom Inventors, she worked in Washington D.C. under the Clinton Administration where she earned several progressive assignments, including the position as Senior Communications Associate for the President's Initiative on Race at the White House, Education Director for the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, and Chief of Staff for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

Tamara is a frequent speaker on Entrepreneurship and Women & Business Leadership.

She has a Doctorate Degree (Ed.D.) in International & Multicultural Education and a Masters Degree from the University of San Francisco and a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.