From where I stand today, after nearly three decades of personal and professional experiences, I believe it’s time to bring positive changes in ourselves and in society. I also believe that it is clarity of Purpose & Value that forward one towards Excellence.

We tend to forget about the journey. We are forgetting about the values that drive us to become a proper human being, a purposeful being. I see the bewildering diminishing of values as the world is getting older.

This journey we are in one towards a light of enlightenment yet we are rather reluctant to enlighten ourselves from that light. We are apart and aloof from our purpose, something that we may know or not know of.

There is a voice deep within ourselves always trying to tell us what we need to hear. Some hear and some don’t. This is the voice that defines our divine purpose in life, our values, and our passion. And this journey of passion is always lonesome and there shall be external voices all around. Never to lend ears to these voices, rather look for sanctity instead. – Foremost it is not hard at all for us just to make a vow that we will be a reason for the smile of a person?

I was affected with a very strange disease called leukemia. Throughout my recovery, I often thought that it would be a blessing if I lived fifty years more, so that I remain steadfast to my values, and serve the purpose that I comprehended as I transformed through the survival of this terminal disease. May we all be remembered as legacy of values and wisdom when our names are erased from the tombstones.

Najmus Sakib Bahauddin Ahmed is popularly known as ‘Albab’. He is a business graduate from Richmond International University, London.

 

Albab has covered many important business sectors in Bangladesh as part of his professional experience. He started his career with ANZ Grindlays Bank as Foreign Exchange Dealer and Treasurer (1991-1992)

With a passion in mind to know other industries better he joined MGH Group and served in a managerial leadership capacity, where he gained his finest experience of logistics, distribution, administration and supply chain management (1993-1995).

Albab began his entrepreneurial journey when he introduced the concept of greeting cards to the nation by becoming the master franchisee and distributor for Hallmark Cards and Gifts, INC, USA and revolutionized the market (1996-2003).

His zeal for learning about RMG business took him to his next level of success as managing director of a renowned company of the RMG sector, ALLIANCE STITCHES LTD, DEPZ, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2004-2014).

His survival of cancer transformed him into a man of purpose. Every human being is a divine gift. We are all here on a mission and there is someone out there who needs us. Serving the humanity is the best of the services and is a virtuous cycle. He is a Freelance activist and counselor in beating and treating cancer. He is also a Founder of ‘Bangladesh Cancer Aid Trust’ – Formerly Bangladesh Cancer Aid Foundation (2011).

Post his cancer recovery in 2011, Albab with his long 25 years of experience in Ready Made Garments manufacturing, supply chain operation and distribution, and Entrepreneurial leadership as pioneering in some unique industries desired into sharing his knowledge and expertise with the next generation of leaders.  His passion for the learning & development sector as one of the most dynamic sectors in the world led him into launching a learning-based organization, Lighthouse Bangladesh (2015). 

Leading through a Pandemic world in 2020, encompassing VUCA, Albab has been successful in bringing together the leaders and the minds from different institutions of the country and conducted a series of virtual meetings and webinars. In lieu of these engagements of Lighthouse Bangladesh, Albab spearheaded the emergence of ‘Valor of Bangladesh’ in short VoB, a forum with the goal to connect leaders and experts, providing opportunities for strategic relationship development, access to intellectual exchange by leaders and an enchanted exposure to the economy.