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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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Forty-Two, Briefing a Fortune 50
Carly Vivian shares a pivotal boardroom moment where she stood her ground against a Fortune 50 CEO, reframing what felt like luck as the product of ten years of deliberate skill-building and pattern recognition. She argues that women navigating career transitions should decode their own "recipe" of hard-won expertise rather than attributing their success to chance.
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Summary
Carly Vivian shares a pivotal boardroom moment where she stood her ground against a Fortune 50 CEO, reframing what felt like luck as the product of ten years of deliberate skill-building and pattern recognition. She argues that women navigating career transitions should decode their own "recipe" of hard-won expertise rather than attributing their success to chance.
Tags
leadership · women-in-business · career-development · executive-presence · pattern-recognition · second-act · consulting
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.98) · Al Vivian (person, 0.85) · Kristi Dohring (person, 0.8) · Leonard Rothman (person, 0.8) · Second Act (concept, 0.9) · Pattern Recognition (concept, 0.85) · Executive Presence (concept, 0.8) · Fortune 50 (organization, 0.75) · LinkedIn (organization, 0.7)
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snippet · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 27 Jul 2026