Adriana Dolgetta Cosgriff
Adriana is the President of the Ground Rule network of companies, and the Founder and CEO of Capacita, a mission-oriented management consulting firm. Through Capacita, she and her team help organizations remove barriers and reach new heights through wholehearted and pragmatic capacity building with a focus on strategy development and implementation, connecting goals to operations, and capacity building for grants (both -seeking and -making). Capacita’s clients are a mix of funders and nonprofits across the social impact landscape. She firmly believes in the power of capacity building to strengthen the skills of people, organizations, and communities and enable them to make lasting positive change.
Adriana is an attorney with expertise implementing structural reforms in organizations around the world, with eleven years serving as a supervisory foreign affairs officer, foreign assistance program manager, and leader of diverse international teams at the U.S. Department of State. At the Department, she managed criminal justice policy, teams, and programs for Afghanistan, Ukraine, and the Caribbean (including Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, the Eastern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, and Guayana) and was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in justice-focused foreign assistance programs. She later led innovative reforms for the Department’s 80,000+ person workforce as part of the Director General of the Foreign Service’s front office Innovation Unit from 2019-2021.
She is a proud first-generation American, a graduate of Harvard College where she concentrated in psychology (with a focus on social and organizational psychology, including positive psychology and leadership), graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School, holds a Top Secret United States security clearance, and is a member in good standing of the NY State Bar. She began her career in New York City as a strategy and fundraising consultant for international organizations and nonprofits, including the UN World Food Programme and CBM International, and has dedicated her career to the nonprofit, public interest, and mission-oriented space.