Our Origin
Suze François founded Mileus Global not to enter a growing market, but to solve a problem she had seen up close for twenty years.
She began her ESG journey at Walmart Global Procurement, working on responsible sourcing. During her tenure at Walmart, she built and led programs at a scale most practitioners never encounter. That experience, combined with two decades of work across international development, global supply chains, and diaspora investment, gave her an unobstructed view of a problem that shows up everywhere: organizations doing meaningful work that cannot show what that work is actually worth.
Programs ran without measurement. Strategies launched without proof. Social impact sat at the edges of the business. A department. A report. A line item. Not a core function.
When the question came from the board or from funders, the answer was rarely satisfying. And the organizations that needed better answers did not have access to the senior, practitioner-level thinking that could produce them.
Mileus Global was built to change that.
Our Philosophy
Social impact is not charity. It is strategy. Done well, it improves your bottom line. We have the numbers to prove it.
The proof is in the outcomes. Programs Suze has led have produced measurable reductions in supplier turnover, meaningful improvements in operational efficiency, and significant advances in worker economic mobility. These are not social outcomes dressed up as business results. They are business results, produced by social impact strategy done at scale.
At Mileus Global, we do not treat social impact as a standalone program. We build it into the way an organization operates. Into its measurement systems. Into its supplier relationships. Into its workforce strategy. Into the language it uses with its board and its funders.
That is the difference between a program that runs once and a function that compounds over time. We build the second kind.
The Person Behind the Work
Suze François speaks English, French, and Creole as native languages.
She spent a decade at Walmart, from Walmart Global Procurement to the Walmart Foundation, directing responsible sourcing strategy across global supply chains and leading workforce development programs that produced independently validated results. She then carried that experience into international development, diaspora investment, and emerging markets work. Throughout her career, she has directed and contributed to programs funded by bilateral organizations and implemented through development prime contractors across 8 countries.
She has walked factory floors in 9 countries, sat in Fortune 500 boardrooms, and convened diaspora investors at national-level investment forums in the United States. She has designed responsible sourcing strategy for multinational supply chains and built partnerships across government, philanthropy, and the private sector in markets where most US-based consultants cannot operate credibly.
That combination of worlds is rare. Most practitioners live in one. Suze moves across all of them. And that is precisely what makes the work she does for clients credible in every room it needs to enter.
Our Vision
A world where social impact is standard business practice, embedded at the center of how organizations operate, producing outcomes that last for organizations, the people they serve, the communities they touch, and the environment they share.
