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Carly Vivian
Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.
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Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.
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Nobody Talks About What Comes After Extraordinary
Carly Vivian explores the rarely discussed emotional void that follows extraordinary career success, describing how high achievers often feel lost once the structure and visibility of their professional identity fades. She introduces her upcoming book "Lightning Strikes Twice" and her coaching work helping founders, partners, and executives rediscover their core strengths for a meaningful second act.
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Summary
Carly Vivian explores the rarely discussed emotional void that follows extraordinary career success, describing how high achievers often feel lost once the structure and visibility of their professional identity fades. She introduces her upcoming book "Lightning Strikes Twice" and her coaching work helping founders, partners, and executives rediscover their core strengths for a meaningful second act.
Tags
post-success-identity · career-transition · executive-coaching · second-act · leadership · resilience · self-reinvention
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.98) · Jenny Brandemuehl (person, 0.9) · Alan C. Moore (person, 0.85) · Chuck Vivian (person, 0.85) · Karan Singh (person, 0.8) · Mary Pat Elwood (person, 0.8) · Post-success identity crisis (concept, 0.95) · Second act reinvention (concept, 0.9) · Lightning Strikes Twice (book) (event, 0.92) · LinkedIn (organization, 0.9)
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notes · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 27 Jul 2026