In this article for Strategic Risk, co-authors Ben Cattaneo and Daniel Wagner share their thoughts on how risk management professionals can rise to the challenge of decision-making in the world of increasing uncertainty, complex risk and existential threats. The article explores the need to fully understand the context in which risk professionals operate and the interconnectedness of risk to effectively prepare and respond with high-quality, evidence-based, informed decisions. They call for a new innovative, collaborative, practical approach to risk management that the authors believe has more pragmatic value than performative tasks like risk registers and matrices.