Leading with Kindness: Global Leadership Insights
with Chris March
The Corvus Effect / Episode 3
Released: October 28, 2024
Overview
Chris March is COO of Worldgo Travel Management and an executive coach who has built a leadership philosophy out of one stubborn principle: kindness. His grandmother raised him after his parents separated, and he carries her into every new role — spending the first 30 days listening to every team member about their lives, their motivations, and their families before changing anything. This conversation is about what 15+ years across Australia, the UK, and Canada actually taught him: that listening is leadership, and that the version of you who shows up at work shouldn’t be different from the version who shows up on Saturday.
About Chris March
Chris March is the COO of Worldgo Travel Management and an executive coach who has lived and led across Australia, the UK, and Canada. His Success Framework guides leaders through change by clarifying goals, measurements, and what reaching full potential actually means — across all areas of life, not just the professional one.
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Key Takeaways
1. Kindness is the only way forward
Chris learned this from the grandmother who raised him, and he applies it as the first move in any new role: 30 days of listening to every team member about their lives, their motivations, and their families before changing anything. That’s not soft — it’s structural. People don’t follow leaders who haven’t earned the right to lead them yet.
2. Cultural immersion shapes the leader you become
Living and working across three continents exposes you to vastly different ways of thinking about business, relationships, and what success looks like — Western and Eastern frames don’t agree on much. Putting yourself in genuinely uncomfortable situations builds the adaptability and empathy that make a leader effective in rooms they didn’t grow up in. The leaders who never left their familiar terrain end up using one playbook for every situation, and it shows.
3. Be the weekend you at work
Carrying the weight of pretending to be someone else from Monday through Friday is exhausting and counterproductive — the cost compounds even when no one names it. Modern leadership requires showing up as your actual self, not waiting until the weekend to stop performing. When you do, you give the team permission to do the same.