Milka Milliance

Milka is a co-founder, inclusion and equity strategist, leadership coach, facilitator and organizational change consultant. She is motivated by leading human-centered change efforts rooted in an individual and collective discovery process.

Milka is a highly skilled DEI practitioner with management consulting, executive coaching and leadership development facilitator expertise. She has 16+ years experience leading C-Suite consultations at Fortune 500 companies domestically and internationally.

She has a background in Cultural Anthropology/Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University and an MBA from Babson College Graduate School of Business. She is passionate about leadership, social justice, racial equity and entrepreneurship.

Prior to co-founding Different, she was the Head of Consulting: Impact and Implementation at a global DEI firm where she led and developed its change management and implementation services. She is the founder of We R Artemis Leadership, a woman's leadership an executive coaching company, and the author of multiple books, including Your Journey to Self Redefinition and Women Entrepreneurs and the Myth of Underperformance.

Milka’s areas of expertise in DEI include Organizational Assessments, Audits, Strategic Planning, Executive Coaching, Governance, Change Management, Implementation and gender parity practices. She honed her management consulting and executive coaching expertise at KPMG’s People & Change practice and Oliver Wyman’s Leadership Development practice prior to its integration into Mercer.

She currently lives in sunny Miami with her mini goldendoodle, Dami.