Rosalin Acosta

Rosalin is a strategic, results-oriented C-level executive with experience across private and public sector organizations. She has been accountable for multi-million dollar P&L’s, trustee to multi-billion dollar trust funds, overseen risk management and the strategic direction of complex organizations. Rosalin also has a strong track record of recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Rosalin joined Ernst & Young, LLP in February 2023 as Managing Director and National Practice Leader for Labor and Workforce Development. In her capacity at the firm’s Government and Public Sector practice she works with government officials and with her EY colleagues on ways to best solve some of the most difficult obstacles facing State Government Leaders.

Prior to joining EY, Rosalin was appointed Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Governor Charles Baker in 2017. She was responsible for leading the operations of seven complex agencies and was responsible for shepherding the Department of Unemployment Assistance through the most significant challenge in its history during the Covid 19 pandemic. Other highlights throughout her Secretariat included re-branding the entire public workforce career center system to MassHire, and launching the State’s first Department of Paid Family and Medical Leave (DFML). Her responsibilities required her to work closely with federal and state government officials to promulgate regulations and operationalize existing as well as new statutes.

Before joining the Baker Administration, Rosalin spent over 30 years in progressively responsible positions in global, regional and community banking institutions.

A native of Cuba and a mother of five adult children, Rosalin is bi-lingual and bi-cultural. She is an alumni of Harvard Business School (AMP) and received her undergraduate diploma from Wesleyan University. Rosalin is very active in the Latino community in Massachusetts and is a founding member of Unidos in Power as well as active member of other non-profit and civic organizations such as: The Governor’s Advisory Council on Latino Empowerment and AmplifyX. She is a recognized leader, public speaker and cultural ambassador on matters of diversity, equity in the workplace and promoting Latino leadership. Rosalin is the recipient of many national and statewide awards for her leadership and dedication to the community.