Jon Cornish

Jon Cornish

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Calgary, Alberta

Canadian Football Hall of Famer and CFA Charterholder

Jon Cornish is a Canadian Football Hall of Famer who spent legendary 9 years playing for the Calgary Stampeders & racked up some impressive accomplishments. Jon Cornish is a leader in business and community well known for his work in the financial sector and as an advocate for human rights, speaking out for LGBT2S+ and minorities. He is the current elect Chancellor of the University of Calgary, bridging the gap to create brighter futures for students and its alumni.

JON CORNISH BIOGRAPHY

Jon Cornish, from New Westminster, B.C., played running back at the University of Kansas and went on to enjoy a stellar nine-year Canadian Football League career, all with the Calgary Stampeders. In recognition of Jon’s Kansas University football career, where he still holds numerous records, the Jon Cornish Trophy is awarded annually to the best Canadian NCAA Football player.

Jon is most known for the legendary nine years Cornish played as a member of the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League (CFL). As a football quarterback, Cornish was recognized as the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player in 2013 and won three consecutive Most Outstanding Canadian Awards from 2012 to 2014.

Cornish was also a Finalist for the Most Outstanding Player Award in 2012. At that time, Cornish became only the third Canadian to be chosen as the League’s top player joining fellow Hall of Fame inductees Russ Jackson (1963, 1966 and 1969) and Tom Gabriel (1978). Cornish was the recipient of the Lou Marsh Award in 2013, as Canada’s Male Athlete of the Year. They were the fourth Canadian football player to be recognized for the honour and the first since Russ Jackson in 1969. The Lou Marsh Trophy was first presented in 1936.

During Jon Cornish’s nine seasons with the Stampeders, Cornish was selected as a Western All-Star for four straight seasons from 2011 to 2014 and was a CFL All-Star three straight years from 2012 to 2014. Cornish finished off their career as the fourth-leading rusher in Stampeders history with 6,844 yards. Cornish broke fellow Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee Normie Kwong’s 56-year-old single-season rushing record for a Canadian with 1,457 yards in 2012. Jon then broke the record Cornish already set the following year with 1,813 rushing yards.

After a hall of fame football career, Jon Cornish has spent the last nine years in various wealth management roles, working as a consultant and as a part of a top-ranked private investment counsel wealth team. Cornish is currently an investment advisor and CFA Charterholder and team lead at RBC Dominion Securities. Jon is responsible to build relationships, providing wealth management guidance, and holistic, purposeful financial planning to help clients discovery their best lives.

Stampeder hall of famer cornish. most recently received the greatest honour in either sports or business. The University of Calgary named Jon Cornish as its chancellor. As Chancellor of the University of Calgary, the former CFL player holds the highest volunteer position at the university. In this role, Cornish will help to build relationships in the community and promote the school’s goals and priorities.

Jon Cornish works with various non-profits and charities around Calgary, including many events as an emcee for the Alberta Children’s Hospital, working directly with at-risk youth for Wood’s Homes, and at the Calgary Foundation, where Jon serves on Doc Seaman Hockey Fund. Jon Cornish also continues to work with the Calgary Stampeders as their gameday ambassador.

While largely known as a successful athlete, Cornish is a strong member of the Calgary community and plays a strong role in advocacy. Jon Cornish is the President and Founder of the Black Chambers of Commerce, a non-profit established to support the needs of members of Black, Indigenous and people of colour, or BIPOC, communities. The Calgary Black Chambers provided over $60,000 in scholarships to help university students and supported 300 high school students with skill training to aid in their careers and life journeys.

Jon also worked on the You Can Play project, which fosters inclusion for LGBTQ2S+ athletes, and has volunteered with the Alberta Children’s hospital and with at-risk youth. Jon Cornish has been a champion for LGBTQ2S+ communities by encouraging sports organizations to ensure all athletes feel safe playing through the You Can Play Project.

Jon Cornish is on a mission to inspire and empower solutions that help individuals manage challenges within themselves, their peers, and their workplace. Through powerful storytelling from the years played a running back in the CFL football league and Jon’s continued work in leadership roles in business and in the community, Jon brings a unique approach to each presentation that creates a memorable experience the audience remembers years after the event.

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  • As he joins UCalgary in its top volunteer position, Jon Cornish brings with him experience as a Canadian Football Hall of Fame player with the Calgary Stampeders, as a founder and president of the Calgary Black Chambers, as an investment adviser with RBC Dominion Securities, a chartered financial analyst charter holder, as an active community volunteer, and as an advocate for BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities.

    While his accomplishments are many, he draws knowledge and experience from his losses, as well as his wins.

    After the Stampeders were kicked out of the CFL playoffs in the Western final in 2013, in a game they were favoured to win — in a year Cornish also won the coveted Lou Marsh Trophy — he was faced with figuring out how to come back from that loss.

    The Stampeders came back to win the Grey Cup in 2014. In reflecting on his nine years of professional football experience, Cornish says it was through sport that he learned to quickly weigh solutions — and that there is no challenge that can’t be overcome.

    “If you distil football down, you are trying to move a ball forward around obstacles, and my job was to solve the issue of the defence, sometimes within seconds,” says Jon Cornish, adding that, to succeed in the sport, you need to know who you are up against and what your objectives are.

    “I’ve never seen a problem I couldn’t solve,” he says. “I might get tackled, but there is always a path you can take over time, that sometimes involves going backwards.”

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