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New ALTA CEO insists her staff share in responsibility

“I never want anyone on my team to say ‘That’s not my job;’’’ former COO promoted by board without an executive search Michelle Korsmo For Michelle Korsmo, it comes down to family and responsibility. The new CEO of the American Land Title Association has come a long way from her first job—picking rocks from the soil at her family’s farm in Gilbert, N.D.—but the experience informs her approach to her career. “I think you earn responsibility by proving that you can handle whatever task is put in front of you,” she told CEO Update. “I never want anyone on my team to say, ‘That’s not my job.’ Everything should be your job. Somebody’s gotta do it.” Korsmo—whose… Read More