Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD

Water and Climate Leader| Strategic Investment Partnerships and Co-Investments| Professor| EW4ALL| Board Member| Chair- CODATA TG| Award Winner (SDG 2021, EWS 2025)

Decide with Values, Lead with Joy

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A nice weekend read! Thank you Adrienne Adhami

The average person makes about 35,000 decisions daily, leading to decision fatigue! Accept that uncertainty is inevitable. Regret is part of growth! Shift focus from “Did I make the right decision?” to “How can I make this decision right?”

In today’s interconnected world, the global community should embrace value‑led and joy‑centered decision-making as a foundation for progress. This means aligning everyday choices, policies, and business strategies with core human values like sustainability, equity, and compassion, ensuring that what we do reflects what truly matters.

Equally important, we need to redefine success and impact in more inclusive, sustainable terms and encourage collaboration on that basis. Collaboration is crucial for tackling climate change impacts requires us to break silos and work together across nations and sectors. Pooling knowledge and aligning on shared values, we reduce duplication of effort and arrive at better solutions faster.

It’s time to lead with values, choose joy, and redefine success. Whether you’re a policymaker, activist, or everyday global citizen, your choices ripple across communities and generations.
#DecideForImpact #JoyDrivenLeadership #climatechange #GlobalReset #ValuesMatter #SmartChoicesBoldFuture #DecisionRevolution

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About the author

Dr Fakhruddin is an expert climate change risk assessor with 18 years’ global experience in working on disaster risk and climate resilience projects. This experience is a major advantage in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy development. His key areas of expertise are climate and multi-hazard risk assessment, disaster preparedness, early warning and emergency response and coastal community resilience. He has designed climate change and disaster response projects more than 25 countries in Asia and the Pacific. During his career, Dr Fakhruddin helped to design major international multi-hazard early warning systems for floods, cyclone and tsunami to save life and property damage. His most high profile work has been developing multi-hazard warning systems including a tsunami warning system for Indian Ocean countries following the deadliest one in history – the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Dr Fakhruddin is currently work as a mentor and supervisor for postgraduate study in disaster risk management in University of Auckland (UoA). He is a Science Committee Member of IRDR of ICSU/UNISDR, Co-Chair for the Disaster Loss DATA and Risk Interpretation and Applications (RIA) Working Group of IRDR of ICSU/UNISDR. He is also Co-Chair CODATA task group Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD) and PSG member of the Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project (CIFDP) and Open Panel of Commission for Hydrology Experts (OPACHE) of WMO. Recently Dr Fakhruddin appointed by the Government of New Zealand to develop national climate change risk assessment framework