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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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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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Career Reinvention When Others Have a Stake in What You Do Next
Reinventing your career requires considering the impact on important people in your life and factoring them into your decision process. The article explores how mid-career professionals navigate career transitions, using the example of a corporate executive who pursued entrepreneurial ventures after receiving a severance package.
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Summary
Reinventing your career requires considering the impact on important people in your life and factoring them into your decision process. The article explores how mid-career professionals navigate career transitions, using the example of a corporate executive who pursued entrepreneurial ventures after receiving a severance package.
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career-change · career-transitions · personal-growth · work-identity · mid-career · decision-making · life-balance
Key entities
Herminia Ibarra (person, 0.95) · Harvard Business Review (organization, 0.95) · Working Identity (concept, 0.9) · career transitions (concept, 0.9) · mid-career change (concept, 0.85)
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analysis · language en · status final
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claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 28 Jul 2026