EP. 11 Jesse Lumsden- Humility Builds Strong Leaders

Jesse Lumsden

Good leaders give credit to their teams but own the mistakes.

This is a concept that is very simple in nature, but tough to understand.

After all, if a leader never takes credit for his or her wins, how will s/he ever advance? How will others notice that the successes were a result of their leadership? How will they ever get the spotlight?

The thing I’ve seen first hand is that when a leader focuses on his/her team – everyone wins. And more so, leaders that put their team first are usually the ones that go places.

If you’re looking to better understand the qualities that these leaders portray, and how you can perform at this level, then this episode is for you.

This week, I had the honor of chatting with Jesse Lumsden – 3x Olympian

When Batman falls down and Alfred asks “sir what are you going to do now?” Batman says “I’m going to get back up” as that’s the only thing he knows.- Jesse Lumsden

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  • Lumsden is a McMaster product and a Hec Crighton Trophy winner, invited to the East-West Shrine Game. Drafted 6th overall in CFL draft in 05, Jesse Lumsden spent some time with NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins and later played for Hamilton Ticats, Edmonton, and Calgary.
  • Lumsden currently leads strategic partnership for Neo Financial, a Fintech Startup.
  • In the spring of 2009, Lumsden was recruited to push-test for bobsleigh and made his international bobsleigh debut in November 2009, winning a Europa Cup event with Lueders. His World Cup debut followed shortly after. After Vancouver 2010, Lumsden signed with the Calgary Stampeders, which would allow him to continue to pursue his bobsleigh career. He played three games, before suffering a torn left ACL which ended his season. Lumsden made his debut in the 2010 winter Olympics as a member of Pierre Lueders’ bobsleigh team; as the brakeman for two-time Olympic medallist Pierre Lueders, Lumsden recorded a pair of fifth-place finishes in the two-man and four-man events.
  • At Sochi 2014, Lumsden finished seventh in the two-man event with Canada-2 pilot Chris Spring. A shift in the crews for the four-man event put Lumsden in the Canada-3 sled with Justin Kripps, who had proven to be the best Canadian driver on the Sochi track. Eighth after the first heat, the sled overturned on turn 12 in the second heat. Lumsden was cleared medically to continue racing but the sled could not move out of last place.
  • In May 2011 he retired from football to focus full-time on a bobsleigh. He moved into the sled piloted by Olympic bronze medallist Lyndon Rush and together they won two-man silver at the 2012 World Championships. They also won the 2012-13 overall World Cup title in the two-man event. In 2014, he pushed Justin Kripps to a two-man silver at Lake Placid that December before the duo won two-man silver at the 2017 World Championships in Königssee, Germany for Canada’s first men’s world bobsleigh medal since 2012.
  • At PyeongChang 2018, Lumsden finished sixth in the four-man event with Kripps and seventh in the two-man event with Nick Poloniato.

Some Things we Discuss:

  • How being humble is a strength
  • Why instant gratification is a problem and how to overcome it
  • How Jesse worked through countless injuries and still kept moving forward
  • How Jesse made the transition from football to Bobsleigh and the lessons he learned
  • How Jesse is able to balance all things in life including family, work, training, and other things

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